There was a silly period during the Kibaki presidency and after when we started behaving like a Wanga man who has harvested sugarcane. We thought we were rich.
Politicians, like the typical sons of a sugarcane farmer, armed themselves with machetes to demand a piece of the cake. They wanted free this, free that. Lawyers created fat jobs all over the place. But no one was remotely interested in how to make the cake bigger.
I grew up seeing a lot of this. The old man would be buying unga ya chapat. Pulupandi. Emikati. Baskili. Paying bride price for sons and buying them efinanda, ox drawn ploughs. Buying their wives amarinda. For a whole of two weeks. Then back to grinding poverty - brand new goodies sold for a song.
Looks like we are there.
Ask yourself, why would government pay exam fee for a child whose parent earns Sh200K a month, when it has the mechanisms to identify children who are truly needy and deserving of help?
Why did we find it prudent to give every elected leader a developmental kitty yet it is the work of county and national governments to bring maendeleo? Why did we tolerate this bullshit of elected leaders kutangatanga all over the world to “benchmark” when government has experts on everything under then sun? Why do we have all these fancy full time commissions when we have highly trained civil servants who do the actual job? Why did we create EACC when it was obvious that DCI had better capacity to strangle crooks? What is the value of the National Police Service Commission?
Why must an MCA be a full time employee earning ten times the pay of a civil engineer or veterinary doctor yet the MCA creates nothing? Why do we splurge more money on politics and politicians than we do on Agriculture which (un)employs 80 per cent of our people? Why do we have a senate?
In sum, we are like the peasant farmer who wants to live like a primary school teacher.
Psst: I am driving to Mumias but sina fuel.
how many of those parents in public schools earn 200,000?
Nabongo @Abba, someone has said bad things about your subjects.
Schools like Ganjoni primary school, Mama Ngina girls, Alliance e.t.c are public schools with well off parents bro…
Coz we are MONKEEEYYS.
I wish he used another king but he raises valid questions.
If you are a reader ,check out two books by Ayn Rand " Fountain Head"and ‘‘Atlas Shrugged’’ ,they kind of describe how non producers mooch off the few that produce and how mediocrity is exalted by this moochers.Excellence,Integrity ,Diligence and doing things the right way is an abhorred by this lot.Sad to say , but most of the society belongs to this moocher class, and Kenya has a considerably high number of this, hence our current predicament.
P.s These two books are long reads and will take alot of commitment to read to the end .
Because you are black my friend
Says I?
Surely what do Kenyans get from MCA’s et al