In two month’s time Kenyans will be going to the polls again.
The only real choice Kenyans have is between Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta.
All the other candidates clearly lack the numbers to upset the current
political establishment. Our economy isn’t doing too great and with the rising
cost of living, plummeting living standards, rampant job losses and appalling
rise in national debt, the Jubilee government will be hard pressed to find
answers or be thrown out in August. We can all make a pretty good stab at
Jubilee’s failures but does NASA provide any real alternative or is it just
another bunch of power hungry hard-left politicians craving “their chance to
eat”? That is the question this articles attempts to answer.
Jubilee is coalitions of chaos. 4 years ago they romped into
victory on the back of hundreds of bogus promises most of which have remained un-kept.
Even the very nature of their victory was questionable, at least as far as CORD
was concerned. All they have been saying is ‘You lost, we won, get over it and
move on’ but they have failed to disprove any of the evidence of rigging that
were piled up by the opposition. Indeed Kenyans have lost but they haven’t gotten
over it and certainly won’t move on. The economy has since been caught in a
cycle of slow growth, amidst ridiculous public spending beset with mega
corruption scandals one after another. We’ll all pay the price with higher
taxes, fewer jobs and more waste and debt. You can’t beat logic. The net result will
be higher taxes, higher cost of living and social turmoil. But the jubilee
administration has shown that they don’t care about the small fish. All they
care about are the big corporations, wealthy individuals and powerful
westerners for whom they have invested millions of borrowed money to provide
them an enabling environment to even make more money. But does NASA care?
NASA cannot be spared the swipe either. Instead of
addressing the concerns of the ordinary Kenyan, they have instead focused their
campaign on disparaging slogans and sound bites. One can’t help but wonder if
they have a way forward. Can they provide the leadership that our country so desperately
needs? First and foremost they have failed to hold the government to account
and by openly supporting trade union strikes and industrial action, they have
shown how low they are willing to stoop to get political mileage. NASA thinks it
will gain popularity by distracting the government or pointing out its ills
without providing corrective policy alternatives. Well, good luck with that
one. NASA has failed to sell their own agenda of putting the government at the
service of the ordinary people, invest in education and agriculture and reduce
the cost of living and doing business.
One of the fundamental, defining issues of this campaign is
cost of living and cost of doing business and how it will be addressed. NASA’s
antiquated fantasy socialist manifesto will put our economy at even a greater
risk of collapse. You can’t solve this problem with tighter regulations and
taxes. Their proposed austerity measures and devolution of funds to county
governments might work but only in the long haul. Kenyans need the solution
now. Jubilee cannot boast of having answers either for they are the ones that got us
here to begin with. Having failed to
find any real solutions the government has scapegoated the global rise in oil
prices to divert from their own failings. So no matter who wins the elections,
it is a loss for all Kenyans.
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