Mkenya2019: Gov jobs end with providing water. If people want to grow apples or sisal with it - that is their business. They can use it to swim or whatever - as long as they pay their water bills.
Kenya gov will buy or import critical strategic food and oil reserves - and store them for the rainy day - every year.
For example
The goverment will use KNTC import large quantities of food stuff duty-free to stabilise prices.
KNTC is set to import rice amounting to 150,000 tons, cooking oil (125,000 tons), sugar (200,000 tons), wheat (25,000 tons) and beans (80,000 tons).
So there's no benefit to the dam and it was just a waste of money. You import bill still remains the same.
You guys are not serious with transforming your economy
Mkenya2019: As west africa zoos grapples with failed import substitution - kenya - one of africa fastest growing economy -is building 100 huge water dams and irrigations
QuietMynd: Kenyans re so poor when it comes to agro processing industries. No wonder they keep producing tea with the little fertile land they have for export. Am sure the West were the one who told them to face tea production and ignore other important food product their citizens eat. No wonder every year the West media will use Kenya stunted citizen as an advert of African poverty on their television and the Kenyans still don't have sense to retrace their steps. The West bend them willingly as they like. Thesame dunces will call themselves brave whenever we talking of african country with balls.
Mkenya2019: You're imbecille. They did import substitution. That mean they tried to manufacture things they were importing from US and EU. How can they be subservient when for decades they were trying to protect their industries. Africa - did the same in 1960s - 1990s - failed. Central Asia failed. Countries that did opposite - export manufacturing escaped the failures.
What works is to create full value chain industries grows organically until they are internationally competitive.
Such level. Of stupidity
They gave up easily because of the US and EU using threats through WTO. Today what do they export, sugar and vegetables.
No Asian country failed .... The South Koreans imported US products and started doing copies of them. Immediately there were import substitution to cater for their market. After doing it for so many years to feed their market, they became good at it and started meeting quality controls and ISO certifications to export. You import substitute to cut down your import and meet a greater level of your demand before you export or else it will just be a waste of time
You think you can just get up and start exporting er? No one will buy your shit
I know you have little view and have no knowledge of what led to China economic miracle because most Kenyans don't love to read .
That's why you've resulted to not commenting on Russia because you have no knowledge of why they are so self dependent and needing absolutely nothing from anyone.
Mkenya2019: Read why import substitution failed in Latin America - then in Africa. You're protecting manufacturers and hurting consumers. If manufacturers cannot compete with cheaper international ones - you're denying people the chance to buy cheaper and better quality stuff.
I'll ignore the russia stuff.
Bunch of nonsense... It failed in Latin America because they choosed to be subservient to America and Europe. Plus being disobedient to the US will just lead to a coup in your country.
To Latin America, it was easier to just depend on import rather than innovating and it is no wonder they are all stuck in the middle income circle loop
Mkenya2019: Of course. They went to extreme. Ideally 2-3 kids is sustainable. 1 Kid is a mess - no other country has done it. China thanks to that 1 child policy also rose the fastest any country has done economically in history.
Now that 1 child is causing serious problems that might not be easy to solve. Even if they remove child limit - chinese are not marrying or staying - chinese were raised by four parents - grand parents and parents - all pampering one kid - they are too spoilt to survive in marriages- they dont know what it mean to share or compromise.
The one child policy wasnt the cause of their economic rise .... Of the many things that contributed to their economic rise, the one child policy had the least effect.
Mkenya2019: The structure of that population is important. Africa has 30% adult; 70% children; more dependants; more working pop; more money spent in education, healthcare, and all child rearing Asia has 70% adults: 30% children; less depandants; more working pop; more money to spend on development.
China rose sharply because of the 1 child policy - you can imagine 4 people taking care of one kid - while in Northern Nigeria a person has 4 wives - and 20 kids.
And guess what, it was a terrible policy for China because it is currently leading to a population decline that is putting their economy at risk .... They've increased it to 2 and people are still not having babies.
Mkenya2019: Any import substitution by default hurts the economy. You must always remember when you're protecting local industries - it's coming at cost. Import substitution must therefore be timed - with local companies expected to compete - in say 5yrs. Infant industries must be nurtured and quickly - left to compete. Initially they will struggle but they will figure it out - compete - and even start exporting.
Countries should find where they are very competitive in. The comparative advantages...focus on exporting...including even extra labour force.
Ghana has cocoa industry - chocolate industry is worth billions more than manufacturing - woth 250B - and two main producers are
Focus on building cocoa value - focus on building dairy sector (import cows and breeds from Netherlands) - start to build chocolate - and restrict export of raw beans.
"In 2022, the global chocolate market was worth an estimated $205.6 billion and is expected to grow to $262.5 billion by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.1%."
Again you have no basis understanding of economics... There are no negative effect to import substitution that outweighs it benefits. Infact the basis of every good economic policy is protectionism.
What did the Russians do to make Western sanctions ineffective. Putin in 2008 or so created a fund for investment into Agric modernization and Pharmaceutical production. 7 years afterwards, Russia was producing all the medicines it needed, including making almost all the essential drugs it would need. And the same went for Agriculture hence cutting it dependence on the west. Today, some of the best Agriculture machinery you can bug are Russian made if you choose not to buy German. All thanks to their huge scientific community, research and development firms and metallurgical industries.
Awesometouch1: Approaching from the side.....do you need anyone to tell you there must first be an approach from whatever side before positioning to dump fuel?
Again you didn't get it
Dumping fuel will not happen on your side, it will happen above you or Infront of you.
Mkenya2019: Import substitution has failed almost everywhere it been tried. It's better to import cheap things - and find where you are competitive in - and focus there.
South Asian became developed by doing opposite of import substitution - they did export led manufacturing.
If your country is poor - even if you manufacture things - will poor Nigerian afford manufactured goods?
Okay so you say - let manufacture what they already import (import substitution) - you build factories that are inefficient, and they build shitty things that are expensive. You save forex - you injure the economy.
For example - you can block cars from coming to Nigeria - manufacture 1,000 shitty cars selling very expensively - and they soon breakdown - end results economy crushes.
Economy is about productivity and efficiency.
Import substitution failed in Africa and Latin America.
Where it worked - the gov had to be very strict - you're protected for 5yrs or less - and international competition introduced. Perpetual protectionism will kill your economy.
Import substitution can never work in a corrupt enviroment. It can work maybe in Rwanda or Ethiopia. Not Nigeria or Kenya or Ghana.
Import substitution has worked in Ghana to a large extent and it is going to work in Ethiopia as well..
I don't know much about current Nigeria import bill but from what I'm seeing, it will work there too.
Globalization only favoured those whom WTO was created for and now that it is no longer favoring them because the game is stacked against them... They are crying wolf and forcing the world into self dependence.
Reason why Russia, China and Indian economies will do well while the likes of the UK and co will enter a recession
Awesometouch1: I can't believe any sane person is still listening to the Russians up till now. They started this war by lying to the world about their intention to attack their neighbour. Since then all we've been getting are baseless lies upon lies that are so obviously false.
How is it difficult to understand a poorly trained Russian pilot could bump into a moving aerial vehicle it was dancing around dangerously close to for 30-40 minutes?
The incidence was recorded and which means nothing to the barefaced lying nation called Russia.
Those were Jet fighters and not EW equipments.
The WEST need not descend to deceitful propaganda like the Russians. No truly democratic country can do that without taking away freedom of the press.
Only autocratic nations do that and zombies believe them.
Do you know how many lies US authorities have told ? The Russians will seem like Saints because at every point they lie.
Now let's address the video.. The footage looks doctored (green screen creation) A pilot who wants to dump fuel on you will not approach you from your side wing and starts dumping fuel, He will be flying above you or Infront of you to do that.
POKUASI2: The acerbic-tongue New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong has again done what he is noted of, descending into the gutter on his Madina- based radio station, Oman FM last Friday morning.
According to him, he has declared war on all Ewes living in the Ashanti region, and that the NPP activists in the region should attack Ewes with machete and cutlasses. He warned that all security personnel who will try to keep the peace in the region will be lynched.
Kennedy Agyapong then latched onto the Security Co-ordinator and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), warning that they should not dare send their men to keep any peace in the Ashanti region.
“Today I declare war in this country, Gbevlo-Lartey and his people, IGP should know this. Voltarians in the Ashanti Region will not be spared. If anyone touches you, butcher him with a cutlass…”, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong said.
President John Mills was next to bear the brunt of Kennedy Agyapong, accusing him of being a thief who is hiding under the guise of ‘father-for-all’ mantra. “ President Mills is going round claiming he is father for all- father for all; it’s a lie, he is a thief. “His father for all is for himself and no one else, he and the NDC people are thieves, Kennedy Agyapong added.
Kennedy Agyapong’s latest hate speech on the Ewes came on the back of a similar attack by Kwabena Agyapong, an NPP stalwart and former NPP presidential aspirant, directed at Ewes and the people of Hohoe claiming that there are no human beings in Hohoe.
Kwabena Agyapong added that since there were no human beings in Volta Region, his party was going to challenge the figures from that part of the country, an indication that to the NPP, the Volta Region, conceivably, is full of animals who could not have been capable of producing impressive election figures for the NDC that have earned the region its ‘NDC World Bank’ accolade.
Kennedy Agyapong’s latest call for violence against Ewes follows Nana Akufo-Addo’s similar attack on the voting trend of Ewes, where he declared that the people of Volta Region have been voting in one way for a very long time.
This is not the first time Kennedy Agyapong has dabbled in hate speech campaign against Ewes.
He issued similar threat at the NPP regional rally at Mantse Agbonna in Accra earlier this year. At the said rally, he categorically declared war on the police insisting that the security agencies will be lynched if they dare prevent the NPP from carrying out their all-die-be-die attack on lawful citizens.
It will be recalled that Nana Akufo-Addo declared “all-die-be-die” war cry ahead of the 2012 general elections, implying that the NPP will use all means possible to win power. He had previously warned that if the results of this year’s election do not favour him and the NPP, the party would ensure that Ghana suffers violence.
The “all-die-be-die” rant has reduced Nana Akufo- Addo from a viable alternative to the Mills-led government to a desperate loser seeking to appeal to the worse instinct of Ghanaians. It is, therefore, no wonder that Nana Addo’s able lieutenant Kennedy Agyapong is now leading the assault on Ewes in the Ashanti region.
POKUASI2: The acerbic-tongue New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong has again done what he is noted of, descending into the gutter on his Madina- based radio station, Oman FM last Friday morning.
According to him, he has declared war on all Ewes living in the Ashanti region, and that the NPP activists in the region should attack Ewes with machete and cutlasses. He warned that all security personnel who will try to keep the peace in the region will be lynched.
Kennedy Agyapong then latched onto the Security Co-ordinator and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), warning that they should not dare send their men to keep any peace in the Ashanti region.
“Today I declare war in this country, Gbevlo-Lartey and his people, IGP should know this. Voltarians in the Ashanti Region will not be spared. If anyone touches you, butcher him with a cutlass…”, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong said.
President John Mills was next to bear the brunt of Kennedy Agyapong, accusing him of being a thief who is hiding under the guise of ‘father-for-all’ mantra. “ President Mills is going round claiming he is father for all- father for all; it’s a lie, he is a thief. “His father for all is for himself and no one else, he and the NDC people are thieves, Kennedy Agyapong added.
Kennedy Agyapong’s latest hate speech on the Ewes came on the back of a similar attack by Kwabena Agyapong, an NPP stalwart and former NPP presidential aspirant, directed at Ewes and the people of Hohoe claiming that there are no human beings in Hohoe.
Kwabena Agyapong added that since there were no human beings in Volta Region, his party was going to challenge the figures from that part of the country, an indication that to the NPP, the Volta Region, conceivably, is full of animals who could not have been capable of producing impressive election figures for the NDC that have earned the region its ‘NDC World Bank’ accolade.
Kennedy Agyapong’s latest call for violence against Ewes follows Nana Akufo-Addo’s similar attack on the voting trend of Ewes, where he declared that the people of Volta Region have been voting in one way for a very long time.
This is not the first time Kennedy Agyapong has dabbled in hate speech campaign against Ewes.
He issued similar threat at the NPP regional rally at Mantse Agbonna in Accra earlier this year. At the said rally, he categorically declared war on the police insisting that the security agencies will be lynched if they dare prevent the NPP from carrying out their all-die-be-die attack on lawful citizens.
It will be recalled that Nana Akufo-Addo declared “all-die-be-die” war cry ahead of the 2012 general elections, implying that the NPP will use all means possible to win power. He had previously warned that if the results of this year’s election do not favour him and the NPP, the party would ensure that Ghana suffers violence.
The “all-die-be-die” rant has reduced Nana Akufo- Addo from a viable alternative to the Mills-led government to a desperate loser seeking to appeal to the worse instinct of Ghanaians. It is, therefore, no wonder that Nana Addo’s able lieutenant Kennedy Agyapong is now leading the assault on Ewes in the Ashanti region.
vankelvin: Guan's are typically peaceful and no-trouble making people. Eventhough they were the first settlers they were so scattered and always excluded themselves from many things that happened before Independence .
vankelvin: He reads stories from wrong sources then come pretending as if he knows a thing about Ghana
which is what most people gets wrong . There's usually a silent tune in most stories which is usually just one line in the story and that single line is mostly the main tune
vankelvin: That guy has gone mad He doesn't even understand the bitter-love rivalry between the Ashanti's and the Ewe's
He doesn't know Ghana and just like the Europeans, he'll never understand.
To understand Ghana, you have to know which royalty married into the other and who lost which war to who ... Going back a 1000 years in history.
Just like the history between the Germans and the Russians and the reason why Germany and Russia have always been friends and will always be friends. The reason why America will not succeed in pitching them against each other.
POKUASI2: Listen, I pulled that up to buttress what we see every day. I've done over a decade in your space. I've been to almost every part of your community. I've witnessed first hand, what I'm saying. An ashanti guy has asked a dagomba guy in presence why he's talking Ghanaian politics when he's not a Ghanaian. The ashantis forbid their children marrying non ashantis.
Yet Asantes have married a lot into other tribes ... The only thing the Asantes forbid is the Royals marrying from less noble tribes or not into royalty.. They also forbid their royals from marrying slaves or a tribe with history of being slaves.
The Asantes encouraged their peasants marrying from nothern tribes.
POKUASI2: You're a mumuman with no brain in your head. Are those tweets talking about music and arts? And the sad thing about you is that, you're one of the brightest amongst the 30million fools in that IMF colony.
As usual you don't know what the conversation started from and you jumped in.... I was part of that conversation and it's a very broad conversation that started from culture and Art.. and the question was, why is it that everything about Ghana must be Asante ?
The ln it when to why the Akans don't learn anyone's language but expect everyone to learn their language.
POKUASI2: Trust me, a bag of sand in that your big V shaped head can do a better job. You forgot this is internet age and anything can be found on the cyberspace. How do you defend those or are they not alluding to my earlier submission
No they are not alluding to your submission...
You just lack common understanding and that is the major problem with you.
People complain that Akan music, Art, culture and other stuff dominate too much and this is simply because Akans had an advance structure of governance far advanced than most and are the majority. Out of all the Akan groups , the Asantes are or were the largest group.
In any case, the Fantes are the ones who can sane that Ghana belongs to them because they were the original constitutes and they played the major roles in it formation
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back to his element.