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The conversation makes the time go by as we drive in the black of night.A Brookside Dairy truck with the slogan “Goodness for All” painted across its side is blocking our way.“I’m telling you, Robert, everything is corrupt here,” Edward says, pointing to the truck. “The president of Kenya owns Brookside Dairy. When Parmalat, a big Italian company, tried to get in here, they suddenly couldn’t get a license.” (Parmalat pinned this on violence related to the elections.)Somewhere in the dark is a massive pineapple plantation. “Everyone is making money. President Kenyatta’s family is collectively one of the biggest landowners in the country,” he insists. And then there are the government’s “ghost workers”: “The Kenyan government has thousands of people on the government payroll who don’t exist. They found out that of 16,000 employees, only 12,000 came to work.“Every government tender is corrupt. When we have a $600,000 bid, we quote it at $1.2 million, because we have to slip $200,000 to the procurement people.”
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