Fuambo Janyandito
Fri, Dec 4, 2009
Yes people, politics and endless tribal power games is counterproductive and verily so.
The PM has advised that we rely on science and technology to develop our country. It really does not require rocket science to rely on science and technology. Instead of us using the internet day in – day out, inciting fellow citizens to hate one another, and feeding them on cheap propaganda, let use this technology to sing and shout about investment opportunities in different areas of Kenya.
Let us woo dollar laden visitors to come and see for themselves the rich culture and beautiful landscapes in our motherland.
Let them come and see that a Luo can actually marry and live with a Kalenjin and a Kalenjin can actually marry and live with a Kikuyu.
A time has come when we should stop blaming the government for all our woes.
With good road network, land, electricity at the disposal of our people and banks willing to extend loans, in addition to sons and daughters in diaspolands, what do you want the government to do for our people?
Kindly invest those dollars in agriculture, agribusiness, fishing, tourist
facilities, and telecommunication kiosks and our people will improve their
lot.
Diaspo people, facilitate technology transfers from US, India and wherever you are instead of remaining chained to tribal politics back home.
Our son in office mentality will never take anybody anywhere. Instead,
people should be told to invest their knowledge and resources for a better tomorrow and that politics is not the most lucrative profession in Kenya.
I long to see fish processing plants on Muhuru, Sori, Usenge and Mbita
employing our youths. I long to see model high schools in each constituency, model primary schools in each location, model village polytechnics and workshops and model middle level professional colleges in every district.
I long to see more enthusiasm in having higher learning institutions and
research centers in MIT, Rongo; ICIPE Mbita and community development NGOs working in the remotest of the villages.
I dream of a time when with good qualifications, I would be comfortable
down at the village, discharging my professional duties without imposing a self exile to diaspoland on myself.
Let me finish by asking: who among you is not an economic refugee?
Hallo Fuambo Janyandito,
Your article above is indeed very true and interesting. Kenyans are lazy, especially in the diaspora.
There are great investment opportunities in and all over Kenya but the spirit of togetherness is what we luck. We just want to be confined to our tribes, or our group and not have the pleasure to work with others.
I encourage Kenyans to think out of the box and develop themselves as no politician or the government will give you everything. The current govt. has done a good job to give us infrastructure, lets make use of it and develop ourselves and the Nation.
Warm regards to all..
O.Okello
From what i have been reading of late, little seems to ahve changed in our politics. I still believe if each of us took time to tell about 20 people whom we have influnce over about the right approach to politics and development, our backyard would realize the Vision 2030 and MDGoals.
The right approach is to have good representation to ensure the right regulatory environment, fair resource alloctaion, keeping government in its toes and mobilization of resources from donors, invostors and professionals and residents.
It also involve our people taking adavantage of infrastructural development, better regulatory environment and a government that delivers more than its predecessors.
‘Our son or daughtor in office ‘mentality will take us nowhere.