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Kenyan counties should borrow a leaf from the recently concluded GES summit

NAIROBI: The buzz from the recently concluded Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) 2015 hosted for the first time in Nairobi has died down and looking back, one cannot help but feel that a few things seemed out of place.

 

Notably, did all Kenyans know what the Global Entrepreneurship Summit was truly all about? I am referring to the Kenyan entrepreneur in the ‘mashinani’ – beyond having POTUS Barack Obama in Nairobi, or his much-talked-about official vehicle, “the beast”, and not forgetting the Kidero grass that Nairobi residents anxiously waited to grow.

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