Prudent use of resources is all we need to get there

By Edward Ouko

As a Jubilee year for Kenya, we should pause and count our blessings. We are on the verge of an economic renewal going by recent discovery of mineral resources far and wide; most significantly in regions showing extreme poverty levels. Talk of life beginning at fifty. As if the blessings were pegged to having a new Constitution, since its promulgation there have been discoveries of underlying riches: titanium in Kwale, oil and water in Turkana and coal in Kitui. God knows what discovery is coming up next. Kenya has joined the league of other countries in Africa including Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania, Southern Sudan, Sudan, Nigeria and others endowed with natural resources.