Kenya is ripe for socio-economic transformation, but the country leaders are throwing the country deeper and deeper into debt and creating chronically uneven development.
The abuse of state power by vested interests has been as essential a feature in the last fifty years of the country economic development. The abuse of state power by special interests has been systematic and destructive as democratic structures had been subverted by powerful elites.
In the past, genocidal kleptomaniacs have used the government machine to loot national resources, while providing nationalistic lip service to Kenyans.
The hypocritical foundation for misrule set by elite consisting of politicians, bankers, government bureaucrats, and generals without regard for the poor and marginalized.
Kenya economic is set for take-off if our leaders could be focusing towards national development. In this century fierce global competition for resources and markets is the norm.
Look at what is happening between Western countries and Russia concerning Ukraine and consider what China is doing to Africa. It is not only stealing natural resources, but raping the continent with the consent of African rulers.
The logic and framework of Chinese economic policy require the repression of democratic rights. This is because their policy demands authoritarian rule and economic exploitation, which cannot help, but raise very strong reactions from the public that must be subdued.
Today, former bastion of stability such as telecommunication companies and banks are hotbeds of competition. State-run enterprises were either privatized, being privatized and on their way to extinction.
The rate of technological change continues to increase geometrically, while markets expect new products and services - 50% of the services offered by banks today didn't exist in 1990s.
Assertive customers are demanding consummate, perfect, exemplary and excellent quality in traditional products and services - an example is demand for nutritious food and efficient cheap transportation.
There's paradoxical underemployment and unemployment situation, in which there is less job security and less worker demand for empowerment.
