Major divide on Uhuru’s 18 percent workers’ pay rise

Timothy Bosire
Kitutu Masaba MP
The President's announcement of 18 per cent pay rise to low income earners is political gimmick by Jubilee administration to hoodwink voters to give them another five-year term.
The main problem in this country is on the side of production, poor leadership and poor strategy towards growing our economy.
If we address these areas, we will be managing supply and the prices. If we produce enough food, prices will come down naturally on the principal of supply and demand.
It is all about poor leadership, poor management of public resources by the Jubilee administration. They have succeeded in embezzling public resources through non-priority projects that have only help to create instant billionaires at the top leadership.
But if you play around with the people's mind that you have given them a pay rise of Sh1000 or Sh2000 and production continue to shrink and prices going up then you are doing nothing.
Of what economic value does Sh2000 pay rise have when prices of basic commodities like milk, sugar and unga going up three times?
I can now conclude that most of what Jubilee is doing in the run up to the August General Election is a package of political mischief to confuse the minds of Kenyans because they have also realised their failure.
They have done everything wrong since they took power. We were at about 1.6 trillion debt now we are at Sh4 trillion but people can't feel how the borrowed money has been spent.
They are holding onto on everything as they attempt to hoodwink Kenyans that they are responsible.
It indicates the desperation by the ruling party since it has dawned to them that the National Super Alliance (NASA) is about to send them home and rescue Kenyans from the biting economic times.