Stakeholders must work with government to ensure 100 percent transition to higher education
Attention has been drawn to reports that over 700,000 students who sat the 2024 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and obtained the grade of C plain to E Plain cannot be accounted for in the system. There is no child who should be lost despite the grade they score. All hands are needed to…
Kenyan Counties can emulate the Greece City states performance through sound leadership
The ninth devolution conference is being held in Homa Bay County, under the theme “For the people, for prosperity: Devolution as a catalyst for Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice”. Counties should see themselves in the same league as the city states of old times in Greece that thrived on three main aspects. These were: cultural…
Why Aliko Dangote is right – Africa can be a heaven in five years
Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote during the 32nd Annual Meeting of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) urged the continent to adopt bold thinking and a long-term mindset, which is necessary to transform the continent into a “heaven” within just five years. He noted that “We can actually turn Africa into a heaven in the next…
The economics of devolution
The ninth devolution conference has been held in Homa Bay amidst great hopes and aspirations of the promise of devolution. Within economic research, devolution is described as a type of fiscal federalism (or fiscal decentralization) and focuses on how powers over public revenue and expenditure are assigned to lower levels of government – and considers…
Good resolution by NITA and counties to collaborate on vocational training
The National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) and the County Executives in a conference held in Athi River has agreed to collaborate as a way forward agreements aimed at shoring up uptake of the Technical and Vocational education in Kenya. This collaboration and resolve should be supported by stakeholders since TVET programmes are a key component…
Pay more attention to the urban areas’ development financing
The second Kenya Urban Forum (KUF) held at Lake Naivasha Resort, Nakuru, from 17th to 19th June 2025, under the theme “The future is urban: Driving Kenya’s vision for urban transformation” has been concluded. No country has ever reached high income levels with low levels of urban growth. Urbanization levels and the GDP per capita…
Nairobi-Nakuru-Nakuru road can successfully be done under Public Private Partnerships
The Cabinet has prioritized the construction of the Nairobi (Rironi)-Nakuru road starting next in the next few months through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to ease the burden of travelers and road users of this busy and equally important road corridor. Traffic gridlocks and other incidents are a normal occurrence along the highway and hence there…
Let make PPPs work for Kenya
The Treasury is in the process of contracting out professional services to review the suitability of the processes used to identify Public Private Partnerships (PPP) deals in the country. Experts believe that the processes and systems used for the PPP projects in Kenya have inherent challenges which requires the review and necessary strategies to make…
Let us all join hands to eradicate FGM in Kenya
The International Day for Zero tolerance against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was held last week, and the major observation was that the practice had mutated and was being undertaken in diverse forms to escape the law. FGM has been practiced for a long time in Sub Saharan Africa and many of its proponents don’t know…
Impactful leaders like the Aga Khan needed to address global challenges
The way the world has mourned the passing of the Agha Khan IV, who passed away on February 4, 2025, at the age of 88 in Lisbon, Portugal shows that he was an impactful leader. Aga Khan IV, whose real name is Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, was the 49th hereditary Imam of the…
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Dr. Daniel Mutegi Giti 