Happy New Year: May 2017 Never Reflect in 2018

Happy new year! 2017 is finally gone and 2018 is at long last here. Let us rejoice, thank God for the year that was and pray him for the year that will be.

2017, according to a research conducted by TIFA was the worst year for many Kenyans. Many Kenyans wanted 2017 over and gone.

In 2017, Kenyans had two elections in a year and the country plunged into an ending political war of the titans.

Businesses were hurt. According to a statement released by KEPSA, the private sector alone lost more than 0.7 trillion shillings in four months.

The economy in general lost more than 1.4 trillion shillings during the time Kenya was politicking.

There were political demonstrations, property worth millions destroyed, tens of lives lost and hundreds other injured.

Corruption reached its peak in 2017 with mega scandals in various ministries going unpunished.

It is the year that Kenya’s foreign debt ballooned and hit 54 percent of the GDP and experts warned that it could hit 60 percent if the country’s borrowing appetite was not checked.

And now the year is gone. Kenyans are happy that it is now behind us but the scars are still with us.

The year might have changed but those in 2017 are the same people who have crossed over into 2018. It the saying of the changing of a forest with the monkeys remaining the same.

Will 2018 be a reprieve to Kenyans? Well, it has just started. As the say, “only time will tell!”

Happy new year.