Thursday, December 31, 2009

East Africa: The Most Corrupt Country - The New York Review of Books

East Africa: The Most Corrupt Country - The New York Review of Books:
According to the United Nations, the average Kenyan makes $777 a year. Yet members of Kenya's parliament are among the highest paid in the world, with a compensation package of $145,565 (most of it tax-free). That is 187 times more than the country's average income and would be the equivalent of an American congressman making $8.5 million a year. And this is simply what is earned legally.

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