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Why Singapore shouldn’t be Uhuru’s model of progress

The social and economic parameters upon which President Uhuru Kenyatta's’ second term in office will be evaluated are well set in his ‘Big Four’ agenda items - food production, employment, housing, and health. However, the debate on how to achieve these four objectives is only just beginning.

For example, in a commentary in a local daily, one politician offered two pieces of advice to the President: First, curtail excessive freedoms, which he opined “could see a country degenerate into anarchy.”

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