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Why Jubilee don't deserve another term in office

This is a series of my notes on why I think Jubilee alliance don’t deserve another term. When Kibaki took over from President Moi in 2003, the economy was at all time low at 1.4 percent. The NARC government presided over a steady economic growth, which stood at 7.1% in 2007. I must say that this was the time that the country was also much more united, just before the constitutional referendum. After 2007 elections, the dragon of ethnicity grew even stronger.  In fact, in 2008, the economy declined to one of its lowest following the post-election violence.  Kibaki and his team, despite the myriad of challenges, one of them being corruption, and the grand fighting in the grand coalition, steered the economy to a steady growth once again, showing that collectively, which we currently lack, we can transcend any major obstacle.  On the other hand, let’s be honest, President Uhuru Kenyatta inherited a better economy than his predecessor Mwai Kibaki did.  It is on this view that we ought to measure the progress that Jubilee government has made to the economy. As at 2013, it is estimated that economic growth averaged 5.7% per annum.  Five years down the line, the economy has stagnated, oscillating between 4.7% in 2014 to 5.9% in the January 2016.  So what has the Jubilee government achieved economic wise?

As for me and my house, the above scenario, has dampen every gain the Jubilee government may want to cling to for 2017 campaigns and showcased their lack of depth in running a country!  I can’t place my hand on any single promise made by the Jubilee Government that has come to pass in President Uhuru’s first term! Except may be disentangling themselves from the ICC debacle! The promises such as creating employment, improving health cares, which the government has left to the beyond zero campaign to sort out on their behalf; to building new stadia’s, improving security, moving Kenya from low income to middle income economy etc. have largely remained a mirage.

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