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Uhuru's speech highlighted his big four.

1. Affordable housing
2. Affordable healthcare
3. Food security
4. Manufacturing

From 2017/2018 disciplined forces will procure all their textile and leather products locally. Can't believe it took this long but a great move there.

Sadly, Uhuru again fell into the trap of making unrealistic promises.

500,000 houses ?? Will never happen.
Local processing of coffee and tea ? Will not happen either.

5 posts on Jamhuri day.
No one in my shags even knows it's Jamhuri day

Mmmhhh, Kenyans are tired with political speeches. Even malayas are worried about their next fool.

Just saying.

Tigukene.

The work of removing Raira is done, now people want money. Quote me tafadhali.

He should add all school uniforms to that list.
We will then need a lot of cotton to be produced locally. If they could convert Galana Kulalu to be used for large scale GMO cotton farming rather than maize production, that would be great

5 year Jubilee priorities in 2013

Pillar 1-UNIti(Umoja)

1.National Cohesion: Eliminating Ethnic Division
2.Security: Keeping Kenya Safe and Secure.
3.Trade and Foreign Affairs: A Strong Kenya, for a more Stable Africa
4.Sports & Culture: Celebrating the Best in the World.
5.Health care: Towards a Healthier Kenya.
6.Education: Raising the Standards
7.Youth Empowerment: Realizing the Potential
8. Women’s Empowerment: An Equal Share
9.Social Protection: Helping the Vulnerable.

PILLAR 2: eCONomy (UCHUMI)
1.Growth and Development: Building an Enterprise Economy.
2.Manufacturing: Sparking an Industrial Revolution.
3.Information & Communication Technologies (ICT): Digital Take-off.
4.Tourism: Only Kenya will do.
5.Land Reform: A Property-Owning Democracy.
6.Energy: Power for All.
7.Agriculture & Food Security: A Green Revolution.
8.Water: Towards Safe, Clean Water for all.
9.The Environment: Protecting Kenya’s Environment.
10.Transport: A 21st Century Transport & Infrastructure System
11.Housing: A Decent Home for all Kenyans

PILLAR 3: Openness (UWiiZI)

1.Corruption: Cleaning up the Mess.
2.Good Governance: Working with the Civil Society
3.Devolution: Power to the People.


We can agree that they performed and exceeded expectations and decided to repeat and reduce the promises from a mere 23 actions to a long list of 4.

I read through Uhuru's speech it's good to see him for once concentrate on core issues instead of the scattered initiatives of his first term. My thoughts:-

1. Affordable housing-Unless he is thinking along the lines of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac creating a liquid secondary mortgage market I don't see the affordable mortgages. Ordinary kenyans get their housing solutions through Saccos so maybe engaging with Saccos on buying their loans and packaging them into asset backed infrastructure bonds may work. There is over 200b saved in Saccos which can be securitized/leveraged to provide long term mortgages. Obviously I expect him to do the same interest rate cap for mortgages or replicate Hugo Chavez's Great Housing Mission.

2. Manufacturing-his approach of addressing this issue is typical "river-roadish". A manufacturer will set up in anticipation of demand for his goods. That will not happen if there is no economic density in the urban areas. A shrinking and scattered middle class will not bring manufacturing. Uhuru's housing initiatives is the creation of small fragmented neighborhoods the kind that makes labor expensive and costly to set up manufacturing units. Uhuru mentioned Singapore I hope he can learn from them on urban planning and the economic benefits of urban concentration.

3. Food security-I recently learned that the most suicidal group are farmers so let me skip this one

4. Affordable healthcare-public health has basically collapsed. Universal health care is more like free primary education-only good on paper.

Gatherings fatigue.

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