Move fast to reverse decline in vital sectors key to Kenyan economic growth

The core business of any government is to offer basic services in health, security, sanitation, education and agriculture. These services must be seen to work to the satisfaction of the common (wo)men who pay taxes to make it possible for the government to serve them better. It is also the business of government to facilitate the creation of wealth through policies and systems that work.

A critical look at these services reveals that there are serious shortcomings that have disadvantaged the common folk and impacted negatively on the economy. Even as we decry the slow pace of economic growth; trailing the Asian tigers, especially Singapore and Malaysia with whom we were at par at the time of  independence in 1964, it is our own policies and government lethargy that hold the country back in economic terms.