Why Jubilee don't deserve another term in office

This is a series of my notes on why I think Jubilee alliance don’t deserve another term. When Kibaki took over from President Moi in 2003, the economy was at all time low at 1.4 percent. The NARC government presided over a steady economic growth, which stood at 7.1% in 2007. I must say that this was the time that the country was also much more united, just before the constitutional referendum. After 2007 elections, the dragon of ethnicity grew even stronger.  In fact, in 2008, the economy declined to one of its lowest following the post-election violence.  Kibaki and his team, despite the myriad of challenges, one of them being corruption, and the grand fighting in the grand coalition, steered the economy to a steady growth once again, showing that collectively, which we currently lack, we can transcend any major obstacle.  On the other hand, let’s be honest, President Uhuru Kenyatta inherited a better economy than his predecessor Mwai Kibaki did.  It is on this view that we ought to measure the progress that Jubilee government has made to the economy. As at 2013, it is estimated that economic growth averaged 5.7% per annum.  Five years down the line, the economy has stagnated, oscillating between 4.7% in 2014 to 5.9% in the January 2016.  So what has the Jubilee government achieved economic wise?

As for me and my house, the above scenario, has dampen every gain the Jubilee government may want to cling to for 2017 campaigns and showcased their lack of depth in running a country!  I can’t place my hand on any single promise made by the Jubilee Government that has come to pass in President Uhuru’s first term! Except may be disentangling themselves from the ICC debacle! The promises such as creating employment, improving health cares, which the government has left to the beyond zero campaign to sort out on their behalf; to building new stadia’s, improving security, moving Kenya from low income to middle income economy etc. have largely remained a mirage.

This is despite the grand thumping, and shouting from the government of how everything is on track, how much progress they have made and how Kenyans are doing better than any other time before independence. I believe if these were real, because they are currently just an imagination of the government in power, they wouldn’t need to shout about it! Kibaki never did! As Wole Soyinka puts it, “A tiger does not proclaim his turpitude, he pounces"!  So forgive me, but I don’t buy into the Jubilee PR, mirage of how good the country has been under their leadership. Someone should point me to the direction or the country the live in. For example, the infrastructural development we hear about (Started by the grand coalition Government) and the deals constantly being signed by the President left and right should have at the very least translated into something tangible by now, something I can relate to. However, that is not the case, in 2013; I was paying Ksh 300 for my monthly electricity bill. Today I am paying Ksh 3,000(ten times). I have not grown bigger; still use the same items I had then. Yet the cost has increased. I am not an economist, but that growth seems to have infringed on my pocket! And if that is the growth every diehard Jubilee supporter is seeing, then good for them!

Nevertheless, I have to admit that there are a few people who have benefitted from this government. The number is indeed small, as can be seen from the few scatted malls and apartments for sale at exorbitant prices coming up over night! I know these few people will come out guns blazing when they read this article. So I understand. They have to defend their master; I would do the same, after all who wouldn’t? On the other hand, there is another lot that suffers from “ethno malaria”, this lot I would advise to spare me their lecturers. You are still struggling to pay your bills just like me. The best you can do is tweet about eating pizza once in a while. Oh and don’t come at me with Raila or ODM tag, simply because my name starts with an O. I don’t eat Raila or use ODM to pay my bills, and I guess you don’t use Uhuru or JAP as your legal tender too.  I am only concerned about myself and the millions out there like me; I may just go with the third way alliance. After all, what I want is to pay my taxes, and then know that they are used to create a better economy for all of us, not a few of them!