Only a lean government can get us out of this pit

Treasury CS Njuguna Ndung'u. [File, Standard]

If you are in a pit you must either stop digging, or dig yourself in deeper? But stopping to dig is not good enough. You must get out. And to get out, you must find the most practical way. If not, you must remain there, although you stop digging.

We all know Kenya is in a deep economic pit. If you don't, then you don't live here, or belong, or both. Our pit gets just a little deeper each day. But the bigger trouble is that we fear the facts. We are content to scratch at the surface and to address the symptoms. The facts are too inconvenient to be confronted.