wukan wrote:The speech highlights of tano tena
1. 100% universal health coverage through NHIF and reforming laws governing private insurance companies
2.500,000 new home owners through injection of low-cost capital into housing sector, affordable mortgages
3.Creating jobs targeting manufacturing raise sector to 15% of national cake. Kenya power directed to reduce tariffs by 50% for manufacturers b/w 10pm-6pm, value addition bla bla bla
4. Securing water resources for agriculture utilization
5. free day secondary education.
Hope for day when I hear this kind of speech "I came to office with one deliberate intent: to change Britain from a dependent to a self-reliant society – from a give-it-to-me to a do-it-yourself nation. A get-up-and-go, instead of a sit-back-and-wait-for-it Britain.”
I was actually shocked to hear that there were two competing visions in the elections.
This is an indication of how RAO's influence has pulled the Jubilee duo ideologically to the left. Otherwise both are more students of the 'get-off-your-butt-and-work' Kibaki, than the 'haki-yetu' Railian brigade.
It will not last. Unless the economy grows massively, the money will run out before most of these promises are kept. Ruto will inherit an economic skunk.
On the other hand I actually think such wealth redistribution (which is what these policies mean) is a good thing if not taken too far. After all Kenya has one of the highest Gini coefficients on Earth.
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)