A properly working system and how to end poverty required in Kenya

Kenyans have been accused of politicking throughout their lives, an accusation that is activated every election time. This makes our brand of politics to be highly emotional and one filled by cut throat competition, arguments and counter arguments as rival groups try to undo each other. This in the process makes some communities to engage in some form of ethnic clashes and skirmishes arising from the fact that a lot of political rhetoric is driven by various parties in an election. This may be because such situations lead to communities viewing each other in the negative light despite all of them being pawns in political games. Politics has wrongly been seen as being the only solution to all our problems and for some communities, it is seen as a cure for exclusion or marginalization, real or imagined. The cardinal rule of politics is that it should be issue based, inclusive and constructive, and if it were possible, all the tribes of Kenya should be adequately represented in the public service.  In order to ensure that even those left out in the public service are engaged, we should develop a system that rewards merit, hard work, discipline and entrepreneurship, which will reduce the overreliance on politics for survival reasons, or where youths are used for activities that aren’t sustainable.

In line with the theory of public goods for modern states, public services like education, health, housing, transport, employment, water, security, food and public administration services should be availed for the vast majority, albeit gradually for some of these services. We should have a functional system that rewards individual efforts and where it pays to be educated or to do business, which makes people to have an opportunity to change their fortunes. There should be efforts to develop all parts of Kenya, whether urban or rural, while undertaking massive infrastructural developments for the insecurity prone counties through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) beyond budgetary allocations.

At the same time, we should adhere to meritocracy and regional balance to guarantee equitable representation in public service; in addition to improved outcomes from agriculture & access to credit for business. We generate more revenues to support increased service provision as envisioned in vision 2030, so as to free ourselves of debt even as we provide services