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- 0.34% of Kenya in area (less than a square that's 50kms x 50kms) - Has 2.5% the population and more than half the GDP of Kenya. - Has approx 1:1 Tourist:Citizen ratio compared to Kenya's 1:40 at best - Income tax is 15% compared to >30% in Kenya - Education, healthcare and welfare is free. (Really! If you are below a certain pay grade, you get benefits such as money to buy water tanks, some electricity units free etc) - Makes power from Bagasse that is cheaper and more reliable than KPLC & KENGEN and mind you they have a higher per capita power consumption because of air cons etc - Cooking gas goes for ~500KES for 13kg cylinder (They have no refinery. It's all imported). No one uses charcoal with the exception of Braai/choma. - Fuel costs approx the same as Kenya (No refinery... again) - Used to have aircon on for ~12 hours a day, fridge, used electric oven, etc for a bill of at most 3000 KES/month
To pull this of, we would need a major overhaul in governance. ...
- Worker rights are enforced - Everyone has a job.. really, as a citizen, you can quit and a week later have a different job - Everyone get's a 13th month salary bonus. That's standard. 14th (and 15th in some cases) salary as a motivational bonus. Did I mention that ontop of this, some companies offer a free vacation per year for your family for a limit of say 5000USD? - Everyone's entitled to 24 working days leave per year and on top of that, you get 15 working days as sick days (fully paid) . You only need to produce a doctors note after missing 3 consecutive days. That comes to 39 paid working days as leave/year!
Excellent! But I can see how companies here would think this would affect their bottom line. ...
What we have is a good educated population. Really! we do. The average Kenyan is more knowledgeable (by parsecs!).
We just need better leaders and be accountable to ourselves. Stop paying that cop, stop corruption, make your leader accountable. That's it. That's all it takes.
Easier said than done. I think this would mean a change of culture for us. ... -- Kind regards Jason Mule