Only about 20 per cent of the money Kenyans abroad send home goes into investment, and a senior government official wants that share to grow. Ambassador Isaiya Kabira, Secretary for Diaspora Investments, Skills and Entrepreneurship at the State Department for Diaspora Affairs, said roughly 80 per cent of remittances is spent on consumption. He spoke in Nairobi at the opening of Faces of Connection, a photo exhibition on Kenya and Australia relations.