A growth model built around personalities instead of strong institutions is defective

Medical students of Great Lakes university demonstrate by the gate of their City Campus in Kisumu on April 16, 2018.[Denish Ochieng,Standard]

A quick glance at the country’s economic history point to a defective growth model ab initio. The colonial administration thrived on economic exclusion and disenfranchisement of the local productive capacity. Right after independence, neo-colonial elites shaped political leadership and exercise of power around personality cults as opposed to abolishment of the defective colonial institutions.