- Monthly salaries and fringe benefits that exceed millions of shillings per year
- Retirement packages that guarantee security of income for life
- Generating income through political favors to businesses, organizations, etc
- Generating income through memberships in strategic parliamentary committees
- Outright massive thefts and plundering of monies for projects etc
- An inside track to investment in businesses and other income-generating activities
- Income generated through either membership or protection of “cartels” (organized criminal groups), eg healthcare cartel, sugar cartel, coffee cartel, maize cartel, etc
- All these methods of amassing wealth requires a robust layer of protection of interests through legitimate as well as illegitimate armed groups and undercover agents.
Cut-Throat Elections and Pathways to Wealth for Elected Persons in Kenya and Africa in General
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