When a rooster, is seeking the consent of a hen for mating, it ruffles its feathers and totters like a drunken dandy towards the hen, giving a vast ray of promises. “I will buy you land, I will buy you a car, I will take care of your bills’’ and lots of nonentities.
All these promises are only meant to bring the rooster’s mission –mating –into accomplishment so it keeps chasing away male rivals that come near the hen whilst pretending, in a repetitive clucking sound, to pick up morsels for her. Once the hen falls into the trap, the rooster walks away never to be seen again, leaving the promises in a realm of fantasy.
This is exactly what has been happening in Kenya’s politics. Politicians are full of promises and none is delivered except throwing bitter words against each other at a time when they should be attending to the needs of the electorate. This was evident in the 2022 general elections. Politicians promised many things in the first 100 days in office but how many have been achieved so far?
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Even the Bible tells us, ‘Better not to vow and not pay’ (Ecclesiastes 5:5) but to Kenya’s politicians this is just but a buzz. In fact, everything seems to be going against what had been promised. From the cost of maize flour, education, fuel, and power, Kenyans are feeling the pinch. The cost of living continues to rise but who is to blame? That was a choice that Kenyans made for themselves and it’s time to feel the impact.
Interestingly, some good leaders out here never get the opportunity to serve the nation because corruption has dominated the country, and money has become louder than skills. Some have very good and realistic plans that will bring significant change to Kenya.
True leadership is measured by the breath, pith, and substance of the sayings and proverbs that our forefathers left us with because it is in them that we find meaning, purpose, and direction of what we should do, what we should look for and what we should fight for.
Meet Soko Analyst, a name not so new to Kenya’s political circle. If Soko Analyst was the President of Kenya, what will he accomplish in 6 months? A man with a secret of change not only for Kenya but also Africa at large. Here are some of the things he believes would fix the country in 6 months.
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- Stop GOK from borrowing from the local markets so that banks can lend to the private sector
- Privatize key parastatals via NSE to raise funds for development projects
- Renegotiate loan repayments with our partners
- Freeze any tax increase or any new tax creation for 3 years to give room for growth, reforms, and discussions
- Endeavor to finish up all projects
- Drill 1000 strategic boreholes in over 30 counties affected by drought
- Build infrastructure to harvest rainwater
- Plant 10B trees within the first year of office
- Protect all arable land through the constitution
- Protect all water towers
- Reclaim and clean all riparian areas
- Reduce power costs by 50% for manufacturing sectors for night work
- Ensure Nairobi, Mombasa. Eldoret, Kisumu is 24/7 operational
- Remove allowances for GOK of dials and civil servants
- Use parliament to pass an act to push KDF to be involved in the construction of key infrastructure across the country
- Remove all trade barriers within the EAC block
- Zero rates for all farm inputs and seeds
- Reform AFC and ensure it’s a well-run bank for credit access for farmers
- Reform the Sugar belt region to ensure the sugar has more value-added like energy and alcohol
- Push for increased potato farming across key counties for alcohol production
- Penalize traffic offenses and use the money for recurring budgets like overlapping etc
- Push for devolution to standardize their salaries and focus on the development of Agro-processing plants
- Develop cold storage facilities across all counties that produce food
- Give tax incentives for foreign investors to set up more factories
- Set up an EPZ zone in the Western borders with Uganda and Tanzania
- Build a substation in western Kenya
- Push for the removal of all court cases against the GOK to be resolved through arbitration
- Remove 50% of the taxes on fuel to help Kenyans move around better
- Sentence to death all corrupt Kenyans as a lesson to the rest
- Rehabilitation of the ASAL regions with the partnership of Israel
- Focus on irrigation farming across the country
- Freeze the export of anything in its raw form except flowers
- Push for knowledge transfer in the engineering field between government partnership
- Crush wash and fake money syndicate
- Reform police recruitment to reflect modern times
- Amalgamate GOK banks like consolidated and IDB into one to ensure that they entirely focus on manufacturing
- Push for more listing on NSE with at least 24 key IPOs per year
- Reform NTSA
- Reform the ministry of lands
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