| The US Government gives quite a few dollars, like 1.6 | | | | How can you hide the fact that 1.3 million people live |
| Billion to the Kenyan Government and it is well known | | | | in slums in Nairobi, the city is covered with them all |
| that the corruption there is unfortunate, as the | | | | around it. In the Kibera slum there are 800,000 |
| money never really ever gets to the intended | | | | people living in a 2.8 square mile area next to a 3 |
| recipients, instead it is stolen by officials and corrupt | | | | square mile golf course. Even the leaders house |
| people. | | | | backs up to the slum, they just do not care. In an |
| Not long ago the Online Think Tank wrote a Plan of | | | | article in Christian Science Monitor it stated: |
| Action for the Nairobi, Kenya Slum named "Kiberia" | | | | Human-rights activists reacted angrily to a vote by |
| and sent it to the World Leaders at Davos and to | | | | Parliament in Kenya Wednesday that appears to |
| those meeting in Nairobi to discuss the poverty | | | | shield lawmakers from being investigated for their |
| issues there and in the rest of Africa. | | | | roles in certain scandals. The move bars the |
| Our .pdf report and the corresponding eBook was | | | | Anti-Corruption Commission from probing cases of |
| well received by most, but certainly not by those | | | | graft that occurred before 2003, the year it was set |
| who have been involved in the corruption, as the | | | | up by President Mwai Kibaki. He won office a year |
| following week a law was past that no "White | | | | earlier, in part by pledging to clean up government |
| People" may visit the Kibera Slum in Nairobi anymore. | | | | after two high- profile scandals - known as |
| I was told this was typical of how things are done. | | | | Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing - cost the treasury an |
| And since the government did not wish to discuss it, | | | | estimated $630 million that allegedly went into |
| they instead will try to hide it all. | | | | politicians' pockets. |