The Going Concern Trap: How Kenya’s Security Apparatus Profits from Permanent Crisis
The Going Concern Trap: The Hidden Business Logic Behind Kenya's Unstoppable Security Crisis Most Kenyans will find it difficult to believe that the abduction unit (Subaru boys) has been a self-sustaining profit operation from day one. The truth is often much more stranger and bizarre than fiction. In the corporate world, dissolving an active, operational company is a notoriously complex and frustratingly slow endeavor. Even when a business enterprise is bleeding cash, drowning in astronomical debts, facing public ruin, and destroying its brand reputation, it cannot simply vanish from the marketplace overnight. It must painstakingly navigate a tedious, legally binding liquidation process involving active labor contracts, outstanding financial liabilities, supply chain dependencies, and deep institutional obligations. Strangely enough, this exact economic principle explains why Kenya’s highly controversial state abduction units refuse to shut down, completely defying all conventiona...