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President Uhuru Kenyatta 2nd Term - 2017/2022
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limanika
#291 Posted : Monday, March 18, 2019 8:32:55 PM
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[quote=murchr]Since the President is Wazuan, we hope he shall read and rethink his Big 4 agenda.

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We have too much government involvement in our development agenda.

The role of government is to develop enabling policies and stop there. Our broken system allows the government to implement even the most mundane things. For example, the maize sub-sector did so well when there was less government involvement until the government started buying fertilizer for farmers and buying maize.


Hii ya kununua fertilizer na mahindi has be Arap Mashambas policy...total failure and should be termed as unconstitutional. Do we buy fertilizer and Rice for rice farmers? We saw the govt unable to buy ndengu( 1 form of cereal) from Kitui farmers....I wonder why newfarer and the politicians of Ukambani never raised an issue and left Ngilu to fight on her own. Very useless politicians. Privatize NCPB or make it a county asset providing funds to other counties to have their own silos.

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HOUSING
Here too, there is too much government involvement, with glaring conflict of interest in a sector where, essentially, private sector should drive the expansion. Instead industry players spend more time cosying with political leaders instead of addressing gaps in manufacturing through research, incubation and acceleration start-ups in the sector.

Research shows that by 2050 more than 60 percent of Africans will live in urban areas hence the reason affordable housing appears in virtually every policy proposal including SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities).

We will never achieve this goal without significantly transforming the way we build and manage our urban spaces.


The last thing govt should be doing is building your house. Govt involvement should end at mapping and zoning the rest leave for the private investors.

https://www.nation.co.ke...30026-8mvqhf/index.html[/quote]
When we said govt shouldn't get involved in growing maize in galana kulalu, that it wouldnt work and in any case, by so doing it was going to compete with farmers (put them out of business), they didn't listen. Now the project is dead, me and you we're left to pay the debts. If anything keeps many kenyans awake at night its the blunders this govt makes on economy. Total waste for govt to invest in educating its people (on economics and other bodies of knowledge), have universities invest in research and scholarship and then make decisions without regard to basic economics principles
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tycho
#292 Posted : Monday, March 18, 2019 8:40:56 PM
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A textbook approach to countries being free market liberal economies doesn't work.

Here's an example https://www.theguardian....to-let-on-newbuild-homes
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limanika
#293 Posted : Monday, March 18, 2019 9:00:01 PM
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[quote=tycho]A textbook approach to countries being free market liberal economies doesn't work.

Here's an example https://www.theguardian....o-let-on-newbuild-homes[/quote]
You will need a job first to then need a house in the city. Not the other way round as govt is doing. I would have wanted to see more of govt initiatives to create jobs first not to give freebies..eg. Why do govt departments still import cars when they can buy locally assembled ones? How many jobs can we create by this simple tweak? Create jobs first. People can then rent or buy houses in the city so they can do the job. But our Govt wants to give house first.
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tom_boy
#294 Posted : Monday, March 18, 2019 9:16:32 PM
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limanika wrote:
[quote=tycho]A textbook approach to countries being free market liberal economies doesn't work.

Here's an example https://www.theguardian....o-let-on-newbuild-homes[/quote]
You will need a job first to then need a house in the city. Not the other way round as govt is doing. I would have wanted to see more of govt initiatives to create jobs first not to give freebies..eg. Why do govt departments still import cars when they can buy locally assembled ones? How many jobs can we create by this simple tweak? Create jobs first. People can then rent or buy houses in the city so they can do the job. But our Govt wants to give house first.


Its the new "nys". The housing scheme idea is purely a scheme to fatten the already fat cats at tax payers expense. Only contractors and officials will benefit. A few mido class will get several houses under aliases. The majority of contributors to the scheme will get zero zilch nada.
They must find it difficult....... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. -G. Massey.
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tom_boy
#295 Posted : Monday, March 18, 2019 9:18:12 PM
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They must find it difficult....... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority. -G. Massey.
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Thitifini
#296 Posted : Monday, March 18, 2019 9:41:50 PM
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tom_boy wrote:
limanika wrote:
[quote=tycho]A textbook approach to countries being free market liberal economies doesn't work.

Here's an example https://www.theguardian....o-let-on-newbuild-homes[/quote]
You will need a job first to then need a house in the city. Not the other way round as govt is doing. I would have wanted to see more of govt initiatives to create jobs first not to give freebies..eg. Why do govt departments still import cars when they can buy locally assembled ones? How many jobs can we create by this simple tweak? Create jobs first. People can then rent or buy houses in the city so they can do the job. But our Govt wants to give house first.


Its the new "nys". The housing scheme idea is purely a scheme to fatten the already fat cats at tax payers expense. Only contractors and officials will benefit. A few mido class will get several houses under aliases. The majority of contributors to the scheme will get zero zilch nada.


I heard from grapevine that KOTO was given this contract?

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tycho
#297 Posted : Tuesday, March 19, 2019 9:26:25 AM
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limanika wrote:
[quote=tycho]A textbook approach to countries being free market liberal economies doesn't work.

Here's an example https://www.theguardian....o-let-on-newbuild-homes[/quote]
You will need a job first to then need a house in the city. Not the other way round as govt is doing. I would have wanted to see more of govt initiatives to create jobs first not to give freebies..eg. Why do govt departments still import cars when they can buy locally assembled ones? How many jobs can we create by this simple tweak? Create jobs first. People can then rent or buy houses in the city so they can do the job. But our Govt wants to give house first.


Kenya has never been able to create optimal employment ever since its creation. In fact, it can be argued that the world wars aside, Kenya has never been a viable economy.

The Mombasa-Uganda railway was a scandal, and since then Kenya has only been able to create one scandal after the other.

For me then, it's only time we rethought and redesigned our state accordingly. That means mageuzi and mapinduzi thabiti. Quite a difficult task given Newton's second law of motion.

But the cat is already out of the bag. Our model of government and political economy is doomed for failure. It's only a matter of when...
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limanika
#298 Posted : Tuesday, March 19, 2019 10:25:49 AM
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tycho wrote:
limanika wrote:
[quote=tycho]A textbook approach to countries being free market liberal economies doesn't work.

Here's an example https://www.theguardian....o-let-on-newbuild-homes[/quote]
You will need a job first to then need a house in the city. Not the other way round as govt is doing. I would have wanted to see more of govt initiatives to create jobs first not to give freebies..eg. Why do govt departments still import cars when they can buy locally assembled ones? How many jobs can we create by this simple tweak? Create jobs first. People can then rent or buy houses in the city so they can do the job. But our Govt wants to give house first.


Kenya has never been able to create optimal employment ever since its creation. In fact, it can be argued that the world wars aside, Kenya has never been a viable economy.

The Mombasa-Uganda railway was a scandal, and since then Kenya has only been able to create one scandal after the other.

For me then, it's only time we rethought and redesigned our state accordingly. That means mageuzi and mapinduzi thabiti. Quite a difficult task given Newton's second law of motion.

But the cat is already out of the bag. Our model of government and political economy is doomed for failure. It's only a matter of when...

Quite radical statement. But one thing I agree is that it's a matter of when not if system of govt (central+devolved) fails. Either we modify or do away with one level. How can it be that over last 6 yes we have borrowed upwards of 4 trillion, but you can't see where the money has gone. Better even SGR we can see. It consumed 400B, where are the other 9SGR's to justify the 4 trillion???
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hardwood
#299 Posted : Friday, April 12, 2019 5:33:18 PM
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https://nairobinews.nati...uru-most-popular-leader

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President Uhuru Kenyatta is the most popular leader. This is according to the latest research by Burson Cohn & Wolfe for 2019 world leaders. US President Donald Trump is in second place.
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hardwood
#300 Posted : Saturday, April 27, 2019 11:01:58 AM
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https://www.the-star.co....huru-for-economic-mess/

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Mt Kenya businessmen hit at Uhuru for economic mess

The Mt Kenya business community yesterday protested against President Kenyatta’s poor policies that have led to over-taxation, closure of companies and a weak economy.

They said high taxes, heavy borrowing, mismanagement of public funds and corruption have destroyed the economy.

They included exporters, retailers, manufacturers, transporters, microfinance operators, Sacco leaders and property owners.

They said the economy is incapable of creating business and employment opportunities and that many people have been pushed out of business.

“We are looking for a country where we can easily do business and make good returns. We also want challenges facing our people addressed by the government,” the leader of delegation, Alfred Wanyoike, said.

“The government should not create challenges for entrepreneurs but solve the existing problems and allow them to thrive.”

The group said security agencies are capitalizing on the fight against counterfeits to extort them.
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