Kenya is a country located in eastern part of Africa.it is estimated to be having a population of 40 million people .Even though it is experiencing equatorial rainfall the all seasons, good tourist attraction sites and fertile land due to its geographical location. Large percentage of the population is suffering from poverty. Poverty in Kenya is caused by three main reasons Corrupted, selfish and ambitious government leaders, tribalism, poor road and infrastructure and lack of jobs.
Most Kenyan leaders are very corrupted, selfish and ambitious. They care about themselves and their families and not majority who elected them. Instead of serving the society they are busy competing among themselves allocating funds to themselves and embezzling government funds to their foreign accounts. The majority suffer because government is forced to increase taxes due to mismanagement of funds and poor economy in order to sustain the country and make it run. Consequently its citizen end up suffering, a lot of tax is imposed on them, salaries become less and they are forced live poor life standard in order to meet their daily needs with the little income they get, also when tax is increased products price increases, as a result life become unbearable, individuals are unable to cater for their needs and they are forced to cut short their budgets by limiting expenses, for example some family eat food once a day in order to save and be able to have meal each day., in situations where indivuals don’t work they are forced to beg in the streets, as time goes by their health detorriate and they end up dying due to malnutrition or hunger. People suffer not because they are lazy the situation around them lead them into such miseries.
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...om cultivation for at the end of the day they don’t have a place to market their goods, the areas which don’t experience rainfall end up dying from hunger for they can’t access farm product in case they do, the commodities becomes un affordable due to increase in price. Suppliers are forced to raise the price due to cost incurred during transportation of farm products conditions, at end only the rich can be able to afford.
In conclusion Kenya is a very fertile country and it has many opportunities to better living standard of its people, but the government and its citizens are not open minded, in addition instead of individuals working hard to elect people who can focus on their needs, they make it worse by fighting among themselves and spreading tribalism, therefore for Kenya to develop and move forward, change must began from individual, society then government.
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