mkonomtupu wrote:a well-deserved award
IMHO for our economy to turn around we need to sort out the land issues ASAP, this economy has always done well when land was sorted out, GoK needs to streamline issues of access to land and land use planning(turning coffee farms into real estate really?), invest in state of the art land registries, consolidate small unviable holdings, end land speculation by bringing in the capital gains tax on land.
Agriculture- they need to sort food security in major cities, they should build a proper futures market with big warehouses like the ones in Amsterdam and do away with ushamba ones like wakulima market. You ensure stable prices for food in the cities and stable prices for producers. A lot of the cash spent on speculating on plots could be loaned to farmers who with guaranteed markets will pay with interest and a lot of idlers can go back to do farming.
Security- we need our police forces as well equipped(transport, communication gear) and professional as the KDF
Nairobi City council- it's unbelievable that a city with a population of 5m and generating half of Kenya GDP can only raise 7-10 billion in revenue. sort out the engine of growth and the rest of the car will move.
Sorry how will sorting out the land issues improve the economy. Will it reduce inflation, increase exports, or stabilize the shilling. I believe you are blowing this out of proportion.
In ndungu defence all the things you have mentioned have nothing at all to do with him. I do not think the cbk ndungu is the same as the ndungu for ndungu land report so obviously h cant sort out land, ndungu probably doesnt seat at defence committees nor is he a councilor in the NCC. Therefore I think you can absolve ndungu.
Ndungu hands are tied and I agree his action might have been very slow but he probably did not have enough information to act.