I was invited to present my healthcare startups at today’s event at KICC, but the truth is I was torn. First, on whether it was just a show, or whether the government would actually be intentional about making the healthtech industry conducive for us to thrive. I won’t lie, there was also the question of whether I’d be cancelled or not, which to me wasn’t a big deal because I’ve been cancelled before. But after deep self-reflection, I decided not to go.
This was because I felt nothing would be acted upon, and that it’s just one of the many political shows the government puts on. We’ve seen many such events and launches happen without conversion, and I wasn’t comfortable presenting on matters of healthcare when our healthcare itself is in utter shambles. I mean, I’m running a mental health platform to solve mental illness, yet the government is the biggest contributor to our mental health problems, including mine. Well, isn’t that ironic?
That’s just me. My principles always come first. Otherwise, it was a good show, if indeed whatever was displayed will be worked upon.
NAS says on my president is black "Gotta stay true to who you are and where you came from / 'Cause at the top will be the same place you hang from / No matter how big you can ever be / For whatever fee or publicity, never lose your integrity."
"Mnacancel watu because they support Ruto? Mnacancel watu because of a political disagreement?"
When Ruto disagrees with us politically he kills us. Man, what the fuck are we even talking about?
That Ruto is cornered is no longer something to dismiss, because the political mood, the anger on the ground and the fractures around him are becoming harder to ignore.
“Ruto Must Go” can win an election, but it cannot run a country, and the opposition must now start telling Kenyans what happens after the celebrations are over.
Start with the national debt. Which loans will they honour, which ones will they audit, what happens to odious or questionable debt, and how exactly will they stop Kenya from borrowing simply to repay previous borrowing?
Then tell us what happens to this bloated government structure where almost every problem has somehow produced an authority, agency, board, council, commission, fund, secretariat, director general, board chairman, CEO, offices, vehicles and allowances.
Why, for example, does Kenya need a whole Kenya Water Towers Agency with its own board and administration to coordinate conservation of water towers instead of placing that work directly inside the responsible ministry alongside the existing forestry, water and environmental departments?
The government itself has admitted that some State corporations have overlapping or duplicated mandates and has been trying to merge or restructure them, which tells you the problem is not imaginary.
How many water agencies does one country need before water actually reaches people's taps, when we already have the Ministry of Water, Water Works Development Agencies, the National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority, Water Resources Authority and other institutions funded from the same taxpayer?
How many agricultural boards, authorities and corporations do we need before farmers receive affordable fertiliser, functioning markets and reasonable prices for what they produce?
How many youth funds, women funds, enterprise funds and empowerment programmes must exist separately, each carrying administrators and operational costs, instead of creating one properly managed financing institution with measurable results?
Why do functions that could comfortably sit as departments inside ministries repeatedly become standalone State corporations requiring CEOs, boards, procurement departments, HR departments, finance departments, legal departments and expensive headquarters?
The opposition must tell us which State corporations it will abolish, which ones it will merge, which boards disappear on day one and how much money those changes will actually save taxpayers.
Tell us what happens to SHA and whether healthcare will continue being built around deductions, unexplained private technology companies and layers of agencies before money finally reaches the hospital treating the patient.
Tell us what happens to the housing levy, and whether government should really be collecting money from every worker, building houses, identifying beneficiaries, financing mortgages and competing with private developers at the same time.
Tell us what happens to university funding, HELB, school capitation and the endless experiments that leave parents discovering new education policies after schools have already opened.
Tell us what happens to county financing and whether governors will continue travelling to Nairobi every few months begging Treasury to release money that Parliament already allocated to counties.
Tell us what happens to corruption cases, because Kenyans do not need another government that arrives with its own thieves, protects them for five years and suddenly discovers corruption when somebody falls out politically.
Tell us what happens to procurement. Will every tender, beneficial owner, contract variation and final payment become publicly searchable, or will we continue pretending transparency exists when more than half of government contractors can remain hidden behind companies?
Tell us what happens to the police. Will the next president still call commanders when he wants opponents arrested, or will Kenya finally build a police service where an officer fears the law more than he fears State House?
Tell us what happens to the DCI, ODPP, EACC, intelligence services and other institutions that become extremely energetic when powerful people have private problems but suddenly develop weak knees when politically connected goons, killers and thieves are involved.
Tell us what happens to State House spending, advisers, presidential delivery units, special envoys, taskforces and endless committees created whenever somebody in government wants another office.
Tell us what happens to Cabinet size, principal secretaries, CAS style positions if they return under another name, government advisers and political appointees scattered through State corporations.
Tell us whether government vehicles will still consume billions transporting officials to meetings where they discuss why government has no money.
Tell us whether every new president will continue creating offices for election losers and coalition partners instead of forcing political parties to carry the cost of their own political settlements.
Tell us what happens to taxes, because promising to reduce taxation is easy until the same politicians enter Treasury and discover they inherited a government whose recurrent expenditure they are unwilling to cut.
Tell us what happens to pending bills, because thousands of businesses have supplied government, paid VAT, borrowed money to perform contracts and then waited years for the State to pay them.
Tell us what happens to electricity costs, fuel taxes, manufacturing, agriculture and small businesses, because Kenya cannot tax itself into prosperity and then wonder why investors move production elsewhere.
And most importantly, tell us what happens to the structure of political power itself.
If all the opposition is offering is another president controlling Parliament, influencing prosecutors, intimidating independent institutions, appointing friends everywhere and borrowing billions with no consequences, then we are simply preparing the next “Must Go” movement.
Ruto going is now a reality.
But Kenya cannot spend the next year discussing who takes the cake without asking why the cake is this expensive, why so many people are eating from it and why ordinary Kenyans are always the ones paying for it.
Yesterday, Nyong’o was on TV basically admitting they never really audited or evaluated Vision 2030-the same plan he helped write back then.🚩
We’re almost at 2030. Most of the big goals are still hanging, yet this man is already out here selling Vision 2060 like it’s a fresh idea.
How do you sit there talking about the next 30 years when you can’t even explain what happened to the last 20?
This isn’t leadership.
It’s just a bunch of attention-seeking politicians treating us like we don’t notice.
We’re not being led.
We’re being played.
They need to go home. Now.
I hope we are all done with this constant vision recycling.
Honestly so happy seeing Ruto bond with his cows in Kilgoris. 🚩
Good to see him doing his internship early so the transition after the 2027 elections is seamless. An idle mind is the devil’s workshop, after all.
I've heard Prof Ndungu's views on Ruto overrunning government institutions. I experienced it firsthand when I was the Chair of IPOA while he was the Deputy President. He called me early one morning, threatening that if IPOA didn't comply, he and Uhuru would treat us as they did the opposition. I told him to proceed. I don't understand why people in institutions fear a single man just because he's President ,but he's not God. We're all mortal. As the Romans would say 'Memento mori'
I am disgusted by Ruto constantly quoting a Constitution he never supported. Did he even vote for the 2010 Constitution he now invokes whenever it suits him?
@OsoroOngera@DavidNdii CPF the savings went to an individual's CPF account which the person could use for housing, retirement or healthcare. Hii levy yaoo ni standalone and you'll never see your money, waongeze tu kwa PAYE same way we don't know wanafanyianga nini
Singaporeans were allowed to use their CPF savings to buy public housing rather than paying a separate housing tax or levy, and then also using their own money as deposit. mnadhani ata kusoma hatujui.
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