The old, and tired, question has always been about whether or
not we elect the right leader(s). The new, and young, question, I now
understand, is “if you were away from your daily business, would you
trust your leader to take care of the business?” That’s what many
Kenyans are quietly discussing. Let’s call this our democratic epiphany,
inspired, no less, by the need to survive the “pain of government”.
Unfortunately,
the anachronism we call Kenyan politics conflates past, present and
future. Which explains why our latest education experiment doesn’t sound
like a proper balance between life skills (values and virtues),
knowledge (for its own sake) and skills for life (the future of work in a
digital
world).
world).
More prosaically, that’s why universal
health care (UHC) can’t be delivered with reportedly near universal
medical negligence (meaning lifestyle isn’t understood) and poor living
conditions (think dirty rivers). Then, we bounce our water scarcity
against families living in forests that are our water towers.
Think about these as leadership questions. There’s many top speeches and stories, but zero results.
Recent
experience further explains. That, today, we have people in Kenya not
registered (Huduma Namba) or counted (Census) is official malarkey,
especially since it was abundantly clear, from the “seeding” of
questions, that the two are linked. This was not a failure of process,
but honest leadership.
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