"If the British people depleted the Kenyan economy and that's how they built this mega-empire called the United Kingdom, and they're just coming to tell us 'we are sorry', I do not think as an economist, as a governance expert, that's something that Kenyans are going to look forward to, Onyango Ogola noted. "An apology wouldn't even be helpful."
"If you go to the [London] palaces, there's even a history of colonialism and history told with pride that they [the UK] colonized Africa, other parts of the world, and they are proud of it. So telling us sorry is not the idea that is ideal here," Onyango Ogola remarked.
"Nobody knows the border between the Luos, the Kipsigis, the Nandis, the Kisiis and other tribes there. And they [the Luos] say to me, go and tell the king and the queen to give us the original map [...] so that we can know exactly where these boundaries are so that people don't fight," he said.
Current Challenges
"Research shows that $3.3 trillion move from developing countries to developed countries, and the other one, $1.3 trillion move from developed countries coming to developing countries. So the West cannot pretend that they are giving us aid," Onyango Ogola concluded.