Kenya’s Cost of Living
Local politics hasn’t been my forte.
Neither a fan of the incumbent Kenya Kwanza administration nor the Azimio opposition. Neither was ever going to be the right pick to turn around the fortunes of the country.
Six months in, the Kenya Kwanza administration seems to be getting almost everything wrong.
Amidst a limping economy, the administration has barefacedly courted cronyism. The Presidency has been on a spree of rewarding acolytes to crucial state jobs, their incompetence, lack of experience and expertise in the said postings, notwithstanding. To make it worse, the Presidency has assembled one of the largest teams in the executive, rivalling what we had in the Grand Coalition government. The net effect will be a humongous wage bill that the public purse is expected to foot.
The cost of living is sky rocketing. Despite being touted as workaholics and teetotallers, The Presidency seems to be in way over their heads. Instead of delivering on their election pledges and keeping true to their oath of office, the Presidency is unfortunately still in campaign mode. They are dishing out more bogus promises on a daily.
Whilst I don’t support the opposition’s duplicitous call for mass action, the Presidency and the entire top echelon of the Kenya Kwanza administration shouldn’t chest thump and arrogantly dismiss the looming resistance.
The Presidency should take time and get abreast with what is happening in United Kingdom, France, Israel, Moldova, Georgia, Iran, Tunisia, South Africa, Netherlands , Bangladesh , et al. Thousands of citizens in those countries are fed up and have taken up to the streets to get their voices heard and force the hand of their incumbent governments to address their grievances.
The Kenya Kwanza administration’s worst mistake would be to underestimate the citizens’ resolve. The Azimio Opposition’s main agenda for fuelling the looming uprising maybe disingenuous, given that it’s hankered on selfish political motives, but on that list, is the one about the high cost of living and that is enough to gain bipartisan support from the citizenry.
