Who else remembers the day Rais Moi said โWanyarwanda sasa warudi kwaoโ?
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The problem with gluttons isnโt their perpetual hunger (as shocking as that is). No; itโs the complete oblivion to other peopleโs needs that makes gluttons dangerous brutes.
Shetani ashindwe!
Kenya๐ฐ๐ช: Stop Measuring Development in Concrete - Murang'a Governor Irungu Kangata @HonKangata
There is a serious intellectual problem with defining "development' as what can be photographed, depreciated and entered in an asset register, while treating it as recurrent consumption.
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) performs an important oversight role, but its framework risks teaching counties the wrong lesson: build more concrete, spend less on people, and rank better. That would be an unfortunate triumph of accounting over economics.
A road is an asset, but it wears out. A hospital needs maintenance. A vehicle depreciates. Even a new school begins ageing when children enter it. Education behaves differently. A child who learns to read does not become less literate with time. A nurse car become more valuable with experience.
A teacher who masters mathematics can teach successive generations. Engineers, doctors, entrepreneurs and artisans accumulate knowledge, judgement and networks. Human capital compounds. There is an economic irony here: almost everything government calls "capital" depreciates, while its most important capital can appreciate.
A newly recruited doctor cannot economically be equated with one who has 20 years' experience. The latter has accumulated knowledge and institutional memory. Treating the first doctor's training as recurrent while celebrating the hospital in which both work is like celebrating the chicken coop while forgetting the chicken.
As a teenager, I was taught the basic principles of philosophy by Professor Odera-Oruka. He taught us that even if you forget everything else he had taught, remember that the role of a philosopher is to QUESTION EVERYTHINGโand that societies which have not questioned everything have historically lagged behind those that didโin civilization, technological development and the improvement of the human condition.
So, stop complaining when some of us question everything. We do so to improve the human conditionโand we shall never stop.