Sadly, its seems that the birds are now coming home to roost.
Workers are taking industrial action left, right and center including very critical areas such as health care and education.
We have continually raised the red flag indicating that the development path our government is pursuing is not sustainable and infact it is at the expense of the citizens.
One article that appeared on the Daily Nation(
Stop pay rises to curb inflation, firms advise) is a clear indication of the results of unsustainable growth.
To quote a part of the article....
"We need to generate more income for the country for inflation to come down and the shilling to drop to between Sh80 and Sh85 to the dollar for the economy to start to grow,” the chairman of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance, Mr Patrick Obath, said".
In my view, this is exactly what the government failed to do in the beginning; establish a national economic activity that will generate revenue for the government before embarking on heavy loan driven investments.
It is in this line of thought that I faulted the vision2030 thing on my
blog.
How else can we help really?