The United Democratic Alliance economist David Ndii has laid bare the failure of the Gov’t to address the issues facing Kenyans.
While speaking on Citizen TV Monday Sunday, blow by blow Ndii openned up on the struggle the Gov’t is going through to pay depth as well as payment salaries for its servants.
While speaking to Waihiga Mwaura, Ndii noted that the government is extremely wasteful, adding that there is not a single day that he isn’t exasperated by not just how wasteful it is but by how deliberate it is and how unbothered people are.
Ndii further detailed that he is a mere advisor and he does not pronounce policy. “I inform a lot of policies. My job and my team’s job is to ensure that the President makes policies on the best analysis and evidence that is available.”
On the rising debt, Ndii says when they say that debt is consuming most of our money, it has implications on cash flow. “I first warned about our going the Zambia route in 2014. We have to sober up as a country. There are some excesses that we can do without.”
On the claim that there is a fund crisis in Gov’t, Ndii says payroll for civil servants is set to be cleared next week and there is no crisis and gov’t still able to raise the funds.
“We are not demonstrating frugality that is consistent with the message we are talking about, the situation we are in the economy.” He said.
David Ndii says he watched Kibaki mismanage politics from 2003-2005. “All that we did economically came to note in 2007, it was foreseeable. The lesson I learned from that is that the first duty of a government is political stability. We are still paying the price of 200.”
Ndii said that his team priority isn’t in government but the economy. “Our priority is not government, our priority is the economy. The economy is not what happens in government. If you look at our manifesto, number 1 is raising agricultural productivity. Crops are grown by farmers and not civil servants.”
Ndii reminded the nation that Kenya doesn’t t have a growth problem and thay Kenya’s economy is one of the fastest growing economies. “The problem we have is that our growth is not inclusive, it creates inequality and does not create jobs.”
On the public debt David Ndii says that we are not insolvent as a country and that our debt is actually payable, “we can finance payment. Government has no credit constraints, it is able to finance itself, that’s why it uses treasury bills and bonds.”
