power, eventually erodes and damages the political system.
Baba cannot expect gratitude from the public for being a broker with what they perceive as the‘ devil.’ No Kenyan will exalt his name for propping up a thieving cabal especially when he joins them in the continuing mismanagement of the country.
That harrowing experience of the uprising seems to have become a footnote in the Kenyan history as the current administration has not been held accountable for the Kenyan youth that were abducted and disappeared, thanks to Baba’ s support.
Kenyans were told that NHIF, as it was constituted was a den of thieves and the new regime was supposed to herald in a new era of universal healthcare hitherto unseen in the country. They promised a functioning health system that would be the envy of Africa.
What Kenyans actually got was a shamble called SHA. An expensive and totally corrupt system which Kenyans are beginning to realize that it is a private fund syphoning scheme that is as obscure as it is opaque.
The scandal surrounding this new scheme dwarfs the one supposedly connected with NHIF which the new administration was solving. Whistleblowers have exposed the new scheme as a humongous scam purposely enacted to fleece Kenyans.
One of the main cornerstones of a nation is a robust public healthcare system. In Kenya this has failed spectacularly and the existing private healthcare is what has held the country together and anyway our slay politicians seek medical treatment abroad.
How can Baba be part of a government that is systematically killing its own citizens? Why is he contributing in building a stable hell for Kenyans? Kenyans do not mind hefty taxation so long as concomitant benefits come with it.
Taxation in most European countries is high but with it comes commensurate benefits as seen in extensive public services with a comprehensive social safety net that ensures that all citizens have access to essential public services.
The level of taxes that Kenyans are currently paying the government should be providing free or very low-cost access to universal healthcare, this was a campaign promise which has seen public healthcare go south.
Our level of taxation should be able
The uneasy quiet that is prevailing in Kenya is because Kenyans are still in a stupor as they cannot believe that they had actually been to the top of the mountain, and using Martin Luther Junior’ s words had seen the promised land until Baba snatched the dream away!
to provide free or heavily subsidized education from primary through to tertiary levels. Instead, the free education at primary level is a myth and at tertiary levels our students complete education in debt.
Our high taxes should provide housing benefits, generous state pensions, unemployment benefits and disability support but just a cursory look at what has happened to noble social projects as‘ linda mama’ and‘ affordable housing’ tells a story of a major debacle.
With heightened borrowing and stiffer taxation, we should be seeing evidence of an improved public infrastructure, better public utilities and public transit. There is no evidence of new projects except for massive stadia construction while existing one lie dormant.
A high tax burden is supposed to be a mechanism to redistribute wealth to reduce inequality and ensure a basic welfare guarantee for all citizens which should ensure relatively higher quality of life.
In Kenya the opposite is what is happening and the question must be where is out tax money going to and what is the newfound appetite for loans being used for? Is Baba helping to provide a stable environment for public sleaze.
Kasongo is recently quoted to have explained that he had been unable to perform from when he was elected because he had engaged a deputy who was uneducated and ineffective, an issue he has apparently since rectified.
Kenyans must wonder then if the reason the economy went under according to him during Kamwana’ s regime was because the previous president engaged an uneducated and ineffective deputy who Kenyans then elevated to a president.
That line of thought would explain the
economic disaster that Kenyans are currently undergoing and if we take into account his kitchen cabinet of illiterate thugs then Kenya needs divine intervention, probably why he wants to build a church in State House.
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.
Our current president has variously been given many unflattering nicknames and has been singled out as one of the most corrupt leaders which goes hand in hand with a new accolade as the most hated and despised Kenyan leader.
But our brilliant leader, by his own words, seems impervious to all the commotion around him and rates himself as the best thing that happened to Kenya. His lieutenants have been competing on who can irritate Kenyans the most.
The uneasy quiet that is prevailing in Kenya is because Kenyans are still in a stupor as they cannot believe that they had actually been to the top of the mountain, and using Martin Luther Junior’ s words had seen the promised land until Baba snatched the dream away!
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