take the company to new heights of success.
But within a month the company was in upheaval, it started innocuously with the new boss bringing over his personal secretary from his former company, I guess they were called confidential secretaries for a reason, he had confidence in her.
Then he brought over the production manager followed closely by the finance manager and even an office manager was brought over. It appeared that the new managing director was transplanting his cronies from the former company into the new one.
Morale plummeted as the newbies formed a privileged clique of their own and did not even try to mingle with the other staff and it was quite clear they were and felt superior as the staple conversation was how they did it in the other company.
Ochieng was not then aware that he had been caught smack in the middle of corporate politics as existing staff gladly let the new smart alecks run the show although with all their bluster it was painfully obvious that they did not have a clue on what they were doing.
Ochieng was to later realize that the fiasco that he had then witnessed was not very different from the debacle that was Kenya’ s current administration. The political catastrophe has the unmistakable signature of a disastrous leadership and cronyism.
The official stand and the story that was offered to the public was that the lazy inebriated Kamwana, had inherited a well-run economy from Prezo Kibaki unlike the brilliant Kasongo who took over a run-down economy riddled with debt and inefficiency.
Kamwana, was painted as a man evidently suffering from dynastic entitlement and the inescapable presence of a matriarch to whom he would occasionally turn to for motherly attention and indulgence.
The last word on this matter has to be that Kasongo’ s legacy has been cemented as a compulsive liar, that is why his given name has transmuted into Kaongo. What Kenyans can’ t understand is why Baba would lend his name to such a legacy.
the Wantam chant since no Kenyan wants more failure.
With the characteristic swagger of those who do not know and know not that they do not know, the new administration told the former regime to observe from the sidelines as they were going to demonstrate how a country should be run.
Mark you, they did not have a manifesto since they didn’ t even believe they could pull off a win against a state machinery but Baba’ s ineptness and braggadocio handed them the unlikely victory and they still didn’ t seem to know what to do with the prize.
Drunk with power and short of experience and like children who had been given too many toys to play with and can’ t make up their mind which games to choose, the victors set about performing the role of government functionaries with ignorant glee.
And typically, like children they took up authority but did not wish to be held accountable for anything and when the public raised questions about the slow pace of action their incredulous go to reaction was to blame the past regime for looting the coffers dry.
Kenyans however started to get impatient as it became clear that although the government was apparently broke, weighed down by colossal debts, the jet set administration was living in opulence and Kasongo soon earned the epithet of‘ the flying and lying president’. equity were non-existent, the sheen of the blue-chip country was turning a murky brown.
Then the administration went on a borrowing spree for inexplicable reasons and the direct and indirect taxes rose alarmingly putting pressure on the cost of doing business and soon the draconian business environment began to chase away foreign investors.
The local businesses and employees were hounded by the taxman to milk extra levies and the tax regime has become so insidious and pervasive to a point where every Kenyan is being treated as a potential tax cheat by the government they elected.
The promised turnaround soon became the turnoff as development and job creation became a myth in a shrinking economy while our elected officials became slay politicians whose flamboyant display of wealth did not mirror the reality on the ground.
When the Gen-Z uprising nearly swept them off the shacky pedestal they were desperately trying to hold on to, it was the duplicitous Baba who rescued the floundering team while exacting his pound of flesh from the grateful misfits while nonchalantly betraying Kenyans.
Ochieng was to learn that Baba operates with a perhaps immoral but astute political strategy that is practiced especially by businessmen who have invested heavily in a country and whose survival dictates that they support‘ Any Government In Power’.
The collective amnesia of the new cohort was as astounding as it was bold in that they conveniently omitted telling the public that Kasongo actually deputized Kamwana for Tutams as the economy collapsed as per their narrative.
So, what exactly was Kasongo doing in the Kamwana regime, was he researching to acquire his PhD in failure and if so, we can confidently confirm that he succeeded and that may very well be the genesis of
The new administration had promised that they were going to introduce private sector style of management and efficiency and henceforth the government was to be run like a business. Kenyans soon learnt that their elected government had silent shareholders.
When the hundred-day miracles failed to take place and the government became all talk but no action and it became clear that the core values of fairness, rule of law and
What Kenyans saw as shameless political opportunism, Baba saw as political pragmatism and claimed that the country’ s stability outweighed any grievance that any particular constituency might have with the ruling class.
Kenyans however see it as a move in self-preservation and the maintenance of political relevance. An unconditional support that allows a poorly performing and corrupt government to remain in