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The trouble with Kenya is our half-baked ideas

Spur-of-the-moment decisions and half-baked execution are the hallmark of Kenyan bureaucracy.

Government officials are notorious for making decisions from ivory towers, insulated from reality and informed only by ‘best practice’ aped entirely from the West or East. We engage all our gears in these policies only to suffer loss and see our institutions begin to waste away under the weight of unworkable schemes.

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