Viongozi wa Kenya.

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Meerkats live in colonies. While one meerkat looks out, the others are busy looking for food. This is how they benefit from living in a society, instead of living alone. More of them can eat in peace, instead of worrying about enemies. This social benefit is entirely funded by social responsibility, and this is how society works.

People choose to live in a society because collectively they benefit more than they pay out. People choose to have a government because they benefit more from having a government than not having a government. So the government exists to BENEFIT THE PUBLIC.

So then, the proper evaluation criteria of choosing a government official is OBVIOUSLY - how much have you benefited the public? This is not rocket science stuff. This is just asking if people are as intelligent as meerkats.

Leaders who are the BEST at…
Improving education, improving infrastructure, increasing GDP, protecting environment, lowering unemployment, lowering crime rate, should be at the top in any government.

What If I made a lot of money for myself? No this did not benefit the public. We have people who have used publicly-funded roads, publicly-educated labor force, publicly-funded dispute settlement system, publicly-funded defense, got fabulously rich, and never paid a dime/or maybe pay little in taxes. They have never benefited the public in their entire lives. We call these people “very smart” and elect them to run our affairs. Eh - does this make sense to you? Have a look at Kenyas political landscape, it is full of people like these.

How then do we go about getting the leaders we need? Or rather the best public servants.

MERIT

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The most basic is to know which sport you are watching! You can not just grab Usain Bolt, and market him for weight-lifting, or” the best swimsuit model”

“Merit” is a vague and biased term, which should not be taken for granted. The more precise term is “Selection Criteria”. You select for running ability, then you get people who run fast. You select for jumping ability, then you get people who jump high.

You select for the ability to sell ice to the Eskimos, then you get people who can sell ice to the Eskimos. You select for people who screw other people successfully, you get LEADERS who will screw YOU successfully.

So the question every Kenyan should ask themselves is what are YOU selecting a leader for.

Secondly, we need to separate “private merit” from “public merit”. Your own smarts and hardworking ethic are your private merits. You give more to the society than you take from it, that’s public merits. “Private merits” such as the ability to make money makes one a good marriage prospect, but nothing else.

“Public merits” are the pre-requisite to enter civil service and also the criteria when selecting our leaders. Not kieleweke or Tangatanga or maybe we kenyans are not as smart as the meerkats.

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All very good.

UNTIL you realise that in that community of meerkats, watch duty is done by EVERYBODY in TURN.

In Kenya, a Pokot wants to spend the whole day and night rustling, AND THEN get ‘free’ gavament services.

A Miji Kenda wants to spend the whole day akibarizi chini ya mnazi na tembo, AND THEN get ‘free’ gavament services.

A Samburu or Borana wants to spend the whole day wondering the desert with 300 skeletal cows, AND THEN get ‘free’ gavament services.

A Turkana wants to spend the whole day resting his head on an enkilong, AND THEN get ‘free’ gavament services.

A Jaruo rioter will uproot the railway and his own local water works, AND THEN expext to get ‘free’ gavament services.

A Kikuyu youth with spend all his earnings on betting and lying in a ditch after drinking cheap alcohol, AND THEN expect ‘free’ gavament services.

Ask the Europeans. Ask the Chinese. Ask the Indians. WE HAVE A BAD WORK ETHIC AND A WORSE SOCIAL OUTLOOK.

I keep telling you. First, stop breeding like rats. Second, stop asking for freebies.

Until we deal with that, pole, even if the gavament is populated by angels we are going nowhere.

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“And Jesus took his hand and replied…Oh Ye @FieldMarshal CouchP of little faith!”

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You nailed it right there. WORK ETHIC. Been to India a couple of times. A lot of the major companies that you can think of have set up shop there. The majority of college graduates upon graduation have jobs waiting for them. Those guys have a strong work ethic.

By they way, the kids go to school from Monday to Saturday. Sunday is the only day they get off.

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Unatuma madollars lini Jaruo? Ama you want me to kneel down facing Lake Sango nikisema “Tinga tooosa, tosa kabiiiiiisaaa!”.

Utangoja orangutan…

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I was telling someone a few months back that Indian work ethic vs African work ethic is impossible to compare. WE have terrible work ethic!

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This doesn’t apply as much as y’all think. I’ve worked with Indians, south Indians to be specific, they don’t have work ethics my friend. Mara sick leave, Mara bibi mgonjwa, Mara blunder job ,vitu obvious someone still messes up, lazy people, kupendekezana, work for less money and destroys the pay structure by accepting double responsibility for less salary working to show the boss his working, very poor work quality.
As business people they are hardworking and all but as employees , someone has to convince me otherwise .

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aaah, that’s a new perspective. I’ve experienced the less-pay-for-more-work but i didn’t see the poor quality work. in fact, they were setting up to take our jobs :smiley: luckily we saw it from far and someone made something go very wrong and it backfired.