Big ups for an economic framework well politicized into a juggernaut of a campaign strategy. Your bottom-up thesis struck a staggering blow to the politics of tribe that have fuelled our electoral process, (we are not out of the woods yet but it’s a great start). Your hypothesis that fighting corruption head-on is a futile war and instead we should build the economy for all to benefit and that way we shall deal with corruption is impressive but slippery, and there lies my fears and hope all rolled in one. Let me explain.
The effective implementation of huustlernomics depends on you being at the center of it (no other person in the UDA camp appears to fully understand it live alone knowing how to put the bolts and nuts together. The president-elect may appear to understand it but we know he was parroting your briefs and talking points that you ably applied.) Now the crux of the matter is that for you to implement it you must be appointed to an effective office; not only that you must also be given political space to work. So far in our history, only Kubaki has given his teams this space (I hear Kenyatta I also did the same to some degree, I don’t and if so, I stand corrected). If you get beyond the politics of appointment, then I wish you the best and look forward to the goodies you mouthed and twitted personally like universal health care. Greek philosophers gave us the two states of, gnosis and praxis (knowledge and practice); as a scholar and public intellectual, your gnosis is not doubted. The dynamics of praxis create a whole different environment, for example, we know what happened to Kibaki’s food security project in Galana Kulalia, an excellent idea that is yet to feed a single household many years and billions of cash later. The rubber must meet the road now, enough talk now. You are the only one in the Kenya Kwanza line–up that gave many hope and illusion that the economic utopia you preached is possible and plausible. You have been arguably Kenya’s public numero uno, it’s time to transform to Kenya’s public tecnocrat numero uno. All the best big bro
David Ndii is a technocrat and not a bureaucrat. He would make a poor choice to head a Ministry. He knows how to read and interprete numbers, he doesn’t know how to head a group of hard headed people. Also he has been fired when working in projects because of his my-way or the highway style of running things. I remember reading somewhere World Bank(?) fired him in Rwanda for the same.
Kenya should take a step in dealing with corruption. Corruption is the mother of bad governance and the father of impunity.
How will Kenya ignore a “2bn-a-day” loss and still attain her goals of UHC, Agriculture, Education & General Hustlernomics?