NGUGI: When leaders on foreign trips see order, do they remember the chaos at home?
A Eurostar train arrives from London at Rotterdam Central Station on February 1, 2018. When our leaders go on foreign trips and see super highways and hospitals and general orderliness, do they remember with sadness the chaos they left behind? PHOTO | AFP
Get this: Kenya sent 90 delegates to a legislative conference in the USA! The list of delegates comprised members of the Senate, National Assembly, parliamentary staff, ward representatives, and county assembly staff.
Nigeria, the giant of corruption and wastage, sent 22 delegates. The host nation, the US, sent nine, wealthy Japan sent six and Portugal, a small county with a GDP more than twice that of Kenya, sent two delegates.
