Offer inspired leadership otherwise the economy will begin to stagnate

The latest information on the performance of the Kenyan economy shows that rapid economic growth is now uncertain. Key sectors of the economy, such as tourism and construction, seem to have taken a nose dive while manufacturing and agriculture are only minimally raising their heads upwards. While the consumption of electrical power is increasing, the cost to the producer negatively affects the productivity it is meant to engender. One would have thought that with oil prices consistently going down in the world market, even energy from the Independent Power Producers would by now have come down. Yet this has hardly been the case. Energy is so critical to economic growth that one wonders why Kenyan planners have not seen the urgency needed in reducing costs of energy.

Be that as it may. The current government doesn’t seem to know where its economic Midas touch is to be found. Interestingly enough it is not to be found in the major infrastructural projects in which it has over committed itself—important though these are, and padded with kickbacks as they have been—but in the ordinary souls of Kenyans. If the government was really concerned with reaching the souls of ordinary Kenyans, its policies would be different. And its behaviour would not be like what we are observing today. Let me explain.