tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935466052308951612024-03-05T17:52:41.114+03:00HoneywellMr. Billow Khalid is a management consultant and motivational trainer.Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-91901315887878887832015-05-22T23:11:00.000+03:002015-05-22T23:11:10.733+03:00QUANTUM LEAP: HOW TO DELIVER QUALITY AND QUANTITY EDUCATION IN NORTHERN KENYA?<div style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 6px; text-align: center;">
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<b>PRESENTATION (TALKING POINT) AT NORTHERN KENYA EDUCATION (ADAM SMITH INTERNATIONAL) FORUM HELD ON WEDNESDAY 20TH MAY 2015, AT RIVERSIDE IN NAIROBI, KENYA</b></div>
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1. <b>INTRODUCTION</b></div>
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<b><br /></b>• I thank the organizers of this important talk (Adam Smith International) for inviting us. I also thank the panelists, the Governors present, including the governors of Wajir and Marsabit (the lead discussants), MPs, Teachers Service Commission (TSC) representative and other invited participants. On December 12th, this year, 2015, Kenya celebrates Golden Jubilee plus two years (50+2) of independence from Britain. During this period of over five decades of independence, many developments, positive things have taken place in Kenya and of specifically in Northern Kenya.</div>
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• Most importantly the national population has grown many folds to current 45 million.</div>
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• Until 2013 the country was divided into 8 provinces and was centrally managed. Since March 2013, Kenya has 47 counties each with a governor, executives and their own county legislatures, “47 Counties, 1 Nation” These are transformational changes.</div>
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• However, today (2015) there is general impression in the five Northern counties, Marsabit, Isiolo, Garissa, Wajir and Mandera with a population of over 3 million and over 200,000 square kilometers that the region is much behind the other parts of the country, particularly in the field of primary and secondary and even university education . Thus drastic improvement in the quality and quantity of education of the students is needed. </div>
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• The situation is such that average enrollment rate in primary schools in the region is 26% when for instance; in Nyeri county is in the neighborhood of 110%. The 10% are those over-age people going back to schools. In terms of passing Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) or Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) the students are relatively not doing well. There is an urgent need to initiative “quantum leap” synchronize policies and sustained, highly focused actions to correct and address this unacceptable situation-in the five counties in the area of education.</div>
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• Northern Kenya cannot keep appearing like “a giant walking with the limb of a mosquito”. Education is the key to the vitality of the region. This discussion focuses on education in Northern Kenya because the subject matter of the forum is quality of education as organized by Adam Smith International.<br />
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2. <b>BACKGROUND: EDUCATION ENROLLMENT AND PERFORMANCE</b></div>
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• According to the Kenya Economic survey, 2015 which was released just recently, nationally 10 million children are in primary schools. 2.3 million are in secondary and about 400,000 are in universities. The highest of the national budget goes to education, over Kshs 300 billion. The net enrolment rate (NER), countrywide of primary school going children is 70%. </div>
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NER is defines as enrollment of the officials age group for a given level of education expressed as a percentage of the corresponding population. For girls in Wajir and Mandera, NER is less than 10% of the eligible children. This is unacceptable. For boys the rate is a bit better. In Wajir, 260,000 children are in primary schools and this is only 26% of the eligible children, 74% don’t attend schools! In some remote divisions, the enrollment rate is in the region of only 7%. Thus two problems facing the education sector in the region are: these two: low enrolment and poor exam performance. </div>
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3. <b>PERFORMANCE IN EXAMINATION –KCSE / CPE</b></div>
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<b><br /></b>• In the past 10 years, the performance of the KCSE /CPE rates was below national average. The national average indicates that 30% of KCSE candidates normally score C+ or above. However, majority of students in Northern Kenya score less than C+, the cut points for university entrance in Kenya for KCSE. In some secondary schools in Northern Kenya, over 80% of the candidates got less than C+. Interestingly, even those few who got C+ or above don’t do physics paper. Whereas transition rate from primary to secondary is 83%, to university is less than 1% of total KCSE candidates in the five counties.</div>
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• In 2014, 482,133 candidates did KCSE in Kenya and 14,841 of them got straight as (3%). For the first time in 30 years, one secondary school called Sheikh Ali High School in Mandera had one of their students getting an A. This was a big story in the County. Compare this with Moi Kabarak High School, where almost e very other candidates got A’s. This means relatively few students do go to school in Northern Kenya and those who complete the cycle, majority do not pass the final qualifying exams and thus fail to proceed to college or vocational training. Therefore the challenges facing all of us are; how to drastically improve and transform this worrying trend in Northern Kenya.</div>
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4. <b>CAUSES OF THE CHALLENGES FACING QUALITY EDUCATION IN THE NORTHERN KENYA </b><br />
• There are many challenges facing the education sector in Northern Kenya. Northern Kenya shares similar problems and challenges as other regions and 47 counties. Specifically the region shares almost identical problems in the areas identified as other Arid lands counties, which include; Turkana, Samburu, Baringo, West Pokot and other places.</div>
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• However, the pressing challenges facing the region which directly affect quality and quantity of education are:</div>
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1. <b>INSECURITY</b>: As we are aware the issue of insecurity in the region has been a big challenge. 2nd April, 2015, tragedy in Garissa University College being the worst where 147 students were killed. This has resulted to many teachers from outside the region who were “subject experts” to withdraw. The KNUT has reported that 28 schools have been shut down and 800 teachers were displaced because of insecurity in Northern region. The remaining teachers and students fear. The future is somewhat still uncertain.</div>
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2. <b>PASTORALISTS LIFE STYLE OF MANY FAMILIES /HOUSE HOLDS</b></div>
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<b><br /></b>• As was noted, about 74% of the children eligible to go to primary schools don’t. In some locations such as Malka – Meri in Mandera County, the figure is over 85%. Besides insecurity, the other problem is that majority of the families are nomads moving with their livestock camels, cattle, goats and sheep. Pastoralists have normally multiple residences. The children look after their parent’s animals. This lifestyle therefore does not favour education system as we know it which is more of pro-sedentary population. Hence schools in the region have problems of under enrolment. There is just formed Kenya’s Council on Nomadic Education whose policies towards the education of the children of the pastoralists/nomadic communities is yet to become visible and concrete. </div>
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3. <b>SOCIO-CULTURAL CHALLENGES</b></div>
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• Generally, there is feeling that the community, the parents and by extension the children, do not attach “great value” to education. Thus the children do not “demand” to be taken to schools. Parents do not see “immediate results” by taking children to school. Parents appear not to associate positively education with increased social and human capital competitive advantage. </div>
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• The girl child in the process becomes the greatest loser. Further, the girl child bears the specific burden of FGM, which is more or less culture driven and which impacts negatively on the education of girls. When there were teachers strikes in the country, most of the secondary schools in other parts of the country some how continued with the students, and few teachers remaining in the schools, and students “teaching one another”. </div>
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• In Mombasa, there was this famous girl who “cried” for the teachers. In Northern Kenya, students were reported to be “rather happy” there was strike and decided to stay away. I am not aware of any student who cried in public for missing classes in Northern Kenya at any time when teachers were on strike. </div>
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4. <b>BETTER SCHOOL GOVERNANCE AND ROLE MODELS</b></div>
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<b> </b>To have great school administration and role models is important for students. In many schools in Western Kenya, Nairobi and Nyanza, they have yearly schedules of “visits and motivational talks” of more than 60 per year. I was in two secondary schools in Mandera; there was no one who had paid them a visit in two years, even from the county leaderships. I read somewhere that, the Eaton High School, which is a prestigious school in the UK has over 200 motivational speakers per year including, ambassadors from the USA and Japan. School governance, leadership, supervision, quality control, PTAs and so on are bedrock pillars to educational prosperity. To students particularly, drug free environment, these are essential things.</div>
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5. <b>POVERTY-RESOURCES CHALLENGES</b> </div>
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• Mass poverty among the population and households (85% households-cannot afford three meals per day and have less than 200 shillings income) results challenges of school fees, school uniforms, equipments, computer lab and school infrastructure, class rooms for schools and even lack of books, stationeries and school meals.<br />
• The money allocated to public schools is rarely adequate. Very few schools have independent commercial source of income.</div>
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6. <b>HOW WE CAN DELIVER QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF EDUCATION IN NORTHERN KENYA? </b></div>
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<b>SYSTEMS QUANTUM LEAP APPROACH TO EDUCATIONAL TRANSFORMATION IN NORTHERN KENYA / ARID-LANDS</b></div>
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<b><br /></b>• What one writer, James J. Mapes (2003) described as System Quantum Leap approach needs to be applied to address the challenges facing education sector in Northern Kenya and other similar parts of the country. According to Webster’s English Language Dictionary, “quantum leap is any sudden change or an advance in program policy”.</div>
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• It is said “if we think the way we have always done, we will get the result we have always gotten”. In the sector of education that is the issue. In 50 years despite high population and large geographical size in the sector of education, Northern and other arid – and semi aridlands have become and remain more or less “ the left toe” of the nation. Fixed on the periphery, marginalized and least strategic. This has to change and change now. In this regards, among others, the following steps need to be taken to address educational issues in the five counties in Northern Kenya and deliver quality education to learners at all levels, starting from pre-unit or nurseries.</div>
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Both national and county governments have to address these concerns very comprehensively and collectively. Educational performance is dependants on systems, each affecting the other in the chain. No “stand alone” solution can work for children’s education. Quality of education, as we know, is driven by “ecological and systems theories”. </div>
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2. <b>SCHOOLS GOVERNANCE/LEADERSHIP/REPRESENTATION</b></div>
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The leadership of the schools, both primary and secondary need more training in the areas of management, leadership fundraising, resources mobilization, networking, community relation and strategic entrepreneurship. Many schools do “great” because of first class leadership under difficult conditions. According to MPs ranking by voters, majority of the MPs in the Northern Kenya got below average and this may partly explain poor quality of education in the five counties (DN May 20, 2015 p.5). Lack of strong, charismatic, participatory, community leadership. Additionally, the TSC and the county governments should consult and have shared supervision of schools management and quality control roles / responsibilities. Excellence is a continuous process and not a game of chance or accident. </div>
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3. <b>ESTABLISHING MODEL SCHOOLS</b></div>
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There is need to create centers of “excellence” in the counties for both girls and boys model schools, fully resourced and located at strategic places. Development partners can easily support such initiatives or educational programs. Counties have to come together to start centre of excellences, even university colleges jointly. </div>
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4. <b>OVERCOMING CHALLENGES OF POVERTY: </b>Many parents complain of fees, problems, uniforms and meals. To this end, schools should be encouraged and resourced to provide for (1) uniforms, meals, books and computer labs, among others. (2) in this regards schools can join together to seek help from donors, the private sector and buy “rental business ‘premises” in Nairobi and other places. Some schools that did these are now getting income of Kshs.50 million per year. Equalization fund as established by the Constitution which is meant for 14 Counties, in my view, should be mostly used for educational development in the next three years, 2018.</div>
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<b> </b>Leadership and support from the county governments and the local elites are required. Schools expect high support from the local leaders and other stakeholders. In this regards the county governments/ legislators and leaders should and must lead the way. In terms of students’ enrolment issues, there is need for public participation and “educational awareness drive” to be undertaken countywide. “No child should be left behind” campaign. “No education, no future’. The prosperity of the region lies in great education, strategic entrepreneurship; livestock and agriculture. All these require joint strong county level leadership, including the Senators, MPs, MCAs and professionals.</div>
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6. Five counties to become economic block, synergize resources. In the long term, beyond 5 years, more capital outlays (The Big Bush Approach) in terms of roads and other investments by both national and county governments is expected to make big, positive difference in the quantity and quality of education in Northern Kenya. The five counties or more of them (7 of them) form an Economic block as those in the Coastal region and Western Kenya with focus on education, infrastructure, socio-economic issues and even political future orientation. Devolution, which is only two years old this year, is a blessing for Kenya. We must not waste this great opportunity of constitutional dispensation. </div>
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7. Make teaching a desirable career (job) in the region for school leavers. Fifty two years since independence, Northern Kenya still depends on rest of the country for primary and secondary school teachers. There is a need to be self-sufficient in this regard by 20-20.</div>
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<b>CONCLUSION: WE CAN OVERCOME THE CHALLENGES AND DELIVER QUALITY EDUCATION IN NORTHERN KENYA</b></div>
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<b><br /></b>• The need for better education in Northern Kenya is a cute. The challenges are many but we can overcome them. The challenges are insecurity, pastoral nomadic lifestyle, need for better school governance, role models and poverty amongst the households. The way forward is systems quantum leap approach. This means making all systems work for the education sector,” no stand alone solution”.</div>
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<b>THE WAY FORWARD ARE:</b></div>
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1. Address sources of insecurity comprehensively </div>
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2. Transform school governance /leadership training and early education systems. Without the strong involvement of leaders, we can’t succeed, with their strong involvement, the counties cannot fail.<br />
3. Establish model schools/ including the boarding schools<br />
4. Overcome challenges of poverty through schools providing uniforms, books, school meals, computer labs and other infrastructure.<br />
5. Schools jointly engage in commercial enterprises and strategies –self reliance initiative.<br />
6. “Develop and engage high mutual expectations, collaborative framework” with county governments, and the public and other stakeholders. That way enrolment is expected to increase to over 50% soonest possible and “fewer children will be left behind”.<br />
As one Abdul Kalam said, “All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitudes make the difference.” It is time for people of Northern Kenya and their leaders at all levels change their attitudes towards education and governance in general.<br />
It is my sincere hope and trusts that this modest contribution will help us all in responding to the challenges facing the sector of education in Northern Kenya and other similar counties and takes the sector to its next higher level. Long live Kenya! Thank you.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-28241422686321510502015-03-01T20:08:00.000+03:002015-03-01T20:08:11.105+03:00What Has David Ndii told us in his article on Jubilee and Moi presidency?<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">I DO NOT get it! </span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">I read Dr David Ndii's long article on Jubilee, Moi, Kibaki and Jomo Kenyatta in the </span><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Jubilee-like-Moi-regime-scores-a-zero-/-/440808/2638032/-/sncejn/-/index.html" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Saturday Nation on Feb,28 2015</a><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">What has he told his readers in this lengthy piece? what is his aim? First, I have a lot of respect for the energy and intellectual capacity of Dr Ndii. However in this particular article and those of the past, his tone,language, his lack of balance, his open contempt for those he </span><span class="" style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">describes as lacking PhDs, or didn't attend what he calls the "right universities " thus his terminologies, "mediocre, sycophant, hairbrained, insecure, hyenas, idiots and rascals" betray outright his opinion as a scholar and objectives social commentator. Second, comparing 24 years of president Moi's rule with just about two years of Jubilee(8.3% of Moi's tenure) and pretend to reach a meaningful rating of comparison is simply preposterous. Jomo Kenyatta ruled for 15years, Moi for 24 years, and handed over the leadership to Kibaki who ruled for 10 years and completed his term in 2013. We,Kenyans still have a country and doing fine. In such circumstances, talking of "zero score" makes the entire concept of evaluation meaningless. No one is perfect. In 50 years, this nation faced numerous challenges. But at the end of the day the Kenyan stars are growing brighter. With respect Moi's leadership, the status of "Moi university" alone is able to grant the former president's rule a passing grade, if there's any objectivity. Thirdly, Ndii's attempt at air-brushing and anchoring his apparent personal vendetta in inappropriate theories such as "Gresham's law on good/bad money and of "toxic leadership" is not only subjective, selective, opaque, but unhelpful in the subject matter. thus the question: "what has Dr Ndii told us?"and what was his aim beyond throwing mud at every direction,branding everybody else "hairbrained"? Leadership success has partly to do with luck, among other things. The luck of Jubilee is just bearing fruits. </span><br />
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<span class="s1">The majority of the one billion people of Africa, (86%), out of the world’s seven billion population (14% of the world’s) live in extreme, squalid, low quality life full of hopelessness is not debatable, so much so that the Mediterranean Sea has now become “the new sea belt of death” for those daily trying to escape collectively Africa to what they describe as the European “lands of human rights and prosperity”. Many writers and documentary makers such as the BBC and the late Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe diagnosed the African problem as “leadership”. Of course, the history of colonialism and slavery partly contribute to our present not so exemplary economic and governance situations. <br /><br /><br /> </span></div>
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<span class="s1"> However, it is no longer plausible to blame history for our current and future challenges, bad governance and failed states. The youngest member of the AU, the South Sudan for instance cannot blame wholly their history for the current on going tragedies and massive disappointments. The problem there is leadership.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"> Is leadership deficit necessary and sufficient explanation for Africa’s global marginalization-trade, education and socio-economic output since Ghana’s independence in 1957? Most of leadership theorists argue that the causes of human socio-economic ailments are reducible to only two: act of nature and failure of leadership. Where leadership is of good quality, history shows that even the effects of “act of nature” can be greatly minimized. There is a lot of historical evidence to support this conclusion. The question is why have African societies, governments not aggressively developed leaders at all levels of their communities during the past sixty or so years?</span></div>
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<span class="s1"> Greece and China are great historical models in this respect from the times of Socrates to Confucius who lived in 500 BC China. Surplus educated leaders at all levels in Africa appears to be becoming very critical if the people of the continent have to catch up with the rest of the world sooner rather than later. Leadership in Kenya for example, from the sub-county and primary schools to the grand national level determine the overall direction of the country and how this can be achieved through the main levers of national actions: politics, laws, executive leadership, diplomacy, economic, the military, overseas aid, social services, education and many others. Leadership also determines the climate of ethics, morality and all factors of humanism, patriotism and citizenship prevailing in the society at any given moment. This is seen as national grand strategy and as Sun Tzu puts it in his famous book, The Art of War, “Strategy without tactics is the slowest, most expensive route to victory. But tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat”.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"> What makes leadership even more critical for Africa’s development, unity, peace and social prosperity is that leadership provides something we call “synchronized thinking”. Besides synchronized thinking leadership helps getting resources, the mix of institutional structure, technology, people and training right and finally building the spirit, values and character that enable people, societies to thrive. Synchronized thinking is the process of creating a great nation or even counties by having every single employee and the general public think in a common way about the meaning of national success and how it is delivered.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"> Synchronized thinking provides for all members of society and employees objective, common frameworks for institutional performance and basis for public expectations and evaluations.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"> At the back page of the Daily Nation of February 12, it had a great picture of the Deputy President William Ruto with the chairman of the Council of Governors Isaac Ruto and other governors. This picture captured very well the spirit of synchronized thinking in intergovernmental relations management in Kenya today. In the picture the Deputy President and the governors had attended an Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council meeting where it was agreed that salaries do not take more than 35 per cent of counties’ funds, among other issues. With devolution moving in the desired direction, I think it is time we address comprehensively “growing” national leadership across all sectors and institutions. Only then shall our dream of catching up with Asian Tigers and others be realised in our lifetime and making the majority of Kenyans happy and optimistic with themselves and country. </span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-36802267276752726512014-12-06T14:56:00.000+03:002014-12-06T15:10:21.657+03:00Without Strong Institutional Framework, Mega Projects, Human Capital Cannot Bring Lasting Development<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
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some time now an interesting debate has been raging on between two scholars;
Dr. David Ndii of Africa Economics, and Dr. Bitange Ndemo, a former PS and
presently of the University of Nairobi, School of Business. The energy, the
passion and high voltage phraseologies used in the exchanges are impressive.
The heart of the debate concerns on what Dr. Ndii sneeringly dismissed as the
“delusions behind Kenya’s bullet trains, techno-cities and other mega projects”
(DN Sept, 13). The exchanges were first ignited by the ‘arrows’ from Dr. Ndii’s
intellectual quiver. His lead arrow argues that the “super cost” mega projects
such as those 72 East Africa projects expected to cost $100 billion in the next
10 years were journey to a black hole, outright waste of public resources whose
benefits to Kenyans and others now and in the future “is tomfoolery and is as
fantastic as John Frum’s Second Coming” (DN, Sept 13). John Frum is a 60 years
old religious mythology character in what Ndii called “Cargo cult”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Some of the mega
projects that the economist is so contemptuously dismissive of include the
Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), the Konza Techno City Projects and the planned
injection of 5,000 mw-into the national electricity grid. These transformative,
flagship projects were launched under the administration of the former
President Mwai Kibaki or consolidated for implementation under the current
Jubilee administration of President Uhuru Kenyatta<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by “Dr. Ndemo and the mega-projects brigade”
(DN, Nov. 8). Dr. Ndemo and his so called “brigade” have argued in favour of
these disruptive, Vision 2030 projects and others in the pipeline. Their reasoning
is anchored on a traditional, old beaten path of the history of development
economics 101. The economics of development deals with the problems of the
economic development of resource deficit countries such as ours. Developing
nations are known to face multi-storied challenges of weak institutions and
values of public services; low national savings; low per capita income; low
ratio of capital to per head of population; low ratio of industrial output to total
output; low level of education, high incidences of poverty and regional
dualism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Regional dualism
is the extent to which a country is characterized by large and increasing gaps
of wealth and development among its major regions that is the degree of socio
economic disparity among different counties as in our case; where a section of
society still beholds pre-Newtonian attitudes towards wealth and the physical
world. The sight of the pastoralists in the Rift Valley and Northern Kenya
“grazing their animals while watching trains, cars zooming past and planes
taking off” will be with us for a long time to come. And it is a good thing.
Talk of dualism. Heavy domestic and external borrowings and under taking
multi-billion shillings development mega projects in a country are some of the
crucial steps towards addressing the problems of regional disparity, economic
development and creating a solid threshold of physical capital for national
prosperity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> The ultimate
concern of economics of development is the alleviation of mass poverty among
the population, for as one economist, Reverend Philip Wicksteed put it, “a man
can neither be a saint, nor a lover, nor a poet, unless he has comparatively
recently had something to eat.” Alleviation of wide spread poverty in Kenya
today where more than 85 percent of all rural households like these in Wajir,
Mandera, Turkana, Marsabit and even in Baringo, for instance suffer acute
deprivations according to the recently released figures by the Ministry of
Devolution and Planning demand new formulations of what has been commonly
referred to as the “big push” or “the minimum effort” economic theory. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">County Focus for National Development </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> In view of our
evolving constitutional governance structure based on the theme “County Focus for
National Development”, (CFND) there is revolution of the people’s rising
expectations as they ask, “What is wrong with us?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Nyairo, DN, Nov 25) and this surge of
expectations requires to be met head on and managed optimally well. In this
context poverty maybe defined in western countries as a level of living that
provides no margin above food, clothing and shelter. In our case, poverty is a
state of living that cannot provide even access for food, clothing, shelter,
health, education, security and sometimes even human dignity and hope. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Investments in
mega, economically sense making projects, not politically correct, “white
elephant projects,” as were common features in many African countries in the
three decades of 1960-90s, have been part of any developing country’s
strategies of accomplishing the double requirements for socio economic
prosperity: growth and development. Conceptually, whereas it is possible for an
economy like that of Kenya to grow even to “double digit” in accordance with
the aspiration of vision 2030, it is much harder to imagine development without
growth. As we know, basically economic growth consists of rising national and
per capita real incomes. However development demands a good deal more
–structural change, technical advance, closing sectoral and regional, socio
economic gaps and new resource discovery like the oil, gas exploration going on
presently in Wajir and Turkana counties. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> To this end, in
matters of growth, the proponents of Rosenstein-Rodan’s ‘big push’ mega project
theory; instead of insisting on having explanations that are both sufficient
and necessary, they prefer adopting explanations for economic ‘growth, “great
lifter waves,” that are simply sufficient until proven otherwise by actual
observations. For the sake of simplicity, what economists call parsimony, this
article opted for minimum references to pile of data and mathematical models,
even though some people might insist on “evidence, not beliefs”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Bamboonomics </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> The theory of “big
push” or large, mega comprehensive programme states that proceeding step by
step cannot pole-vault nations from the “slums” to the top of the league of nations
in terms of economic development. One of my star lecturers at the University of
Punjab, Pakistan, told us of a Filipino national named Jose Rizal who said in
1890 that it would be “silly to expect a structure of steel-meaning modern
nations to stand on bamboo supports.” Rizal argued that “bamboonomics”, or the
traditional social structures” fit for subsistence, rural farming (or
pastoralism) under the colonial powers would no longer be appropriate for the
post-independent states. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> This simply
means that most of Kenya’s historical structural and governance systems such as
the pre-Standard Gauge Railways (SGR) easily fit with the descriptions of
“bamboonomics” which is no longer in congruent with the present and future
needs of the country and its 21<sup>st</sup> Century population. The economic
history of India, Japan, Mexico, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore (although
Singapore is too small a nation for meaningful comparison with Kenya; we are
828 times larger), and even more advanced countries such as the USA, Russia,
and China attest to the conclusion that “only structure of steel” can support
the needs of the people of the modern state as the demand for freedom mutates
into the demand for quality of life – economic and social advancement to
security and dignity. Kenya is not exception to the implications of these sentiments
of Rizal, the Filipino.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Dr. David Ndii,
however, holds different views. He argued that although he was not against mega
project per se, “the specific mega infrastructure projects we are investing in
are mostly bad investments” (DN, Nov, 22). He stressed that “human being, not
mega-projects will turbo – charge economy” (DN Nov. 8). He further argued that
the sh 300 billion plus SGR project price would have paid for 250,000 degrees
instead and given the country better “returns.” What I have found intriguing
though, with his anecdotal disapprovals of “urban legends”, yet forceful
articulation of his strongly held anti-mega projects position, was his anger
and singular zeroing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>personally on Dr
Bitange Ndemo. Dr. Ndii mentioned by name Dr. Ndemo at least 12 times in his
article of November 8<sup>th</sup>, incorrectly stressing that “Dr. Ndemo’s
economic accounting is not the only deficiency in his argument; his
understanding of economic growth is even more wanting-suspect,” closing with”
he (Dr. Ndemo) and his ilk are in the business of summoning cargo,” thus
reducing disturbingly to apparent personal vendetta what was otherwise
objective and a great, issues based academic conversation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> In his rejoinder
to what he described as “a healthy intellectual debate,” Prof Mwangi Kimenyi
argued that both sound mega infrastructure and “investment in human
capital-education and training were necessary prerequisites to help fight
poverty and engender growth (DN, Nov 15). He stressed it was “neither one nor
the either”. Whereas this is true, we must accept that economic development is
complex multi-dimensional problem and that more often than not we lack the
necessary factual knowledge about some of the basic relationships involved in
the process of growth of wealth and development, “particularly those relating to
population growth, institutional imperatives, entrepreneurial motivations,
political, social, capital project outlays and cultural prerequisites. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> The arguments in
favour of education and training as bedrock of economic and institutional
growth are unassailable. We agree the attainment of higher levels of education
is such a universal goal for any responsible country and its people that it
would be correct and logical to ascribe a high weight to human capital as such
in the measurement of the level of development. One can rightly reason that in
the ultimate philosophical sense, participation in the modern world and
awareness of the range of satisfaction of which may be attained through
education, might be regarded as major aspects of development. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> However, is Kenyan’s
number one problem of economic development today under-investment in education
and training of its youths relative to the population, the annual budgets, GDP
and even countries in the same bracket in population and budgetary sizes? I do
not think so. Presently, we have some 12 million children attending
schools/colleges; over 260,000 teachers, the largest in East and Central
Africa, over 30 universities for a population of about 42 million and an annual
budget for universities, colleges, secondary and primary schools in excess of
Ksh 300 billion (S3.3billion) which is more than combined budgets of the 47
county governments in the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> These figures
are impressive by any measure, and comparison. The last time I was there, the numbers
of children attending schools in Pakistan were almost the same as those of
Kenya, yet Pakistan had population of 130 million. As an economist, Dr. Ndii
knows very well the economics of education or even security and other social
needs. Developing high human capital without the appropriate favourable
institutional frameworks would simply result brain drain. That is how we lost
the two Professors; Ali Mazrui and Ngugi wa Thiong’o to the US for almost their
entire lives. The logic of economics of education does not allow cost effective
investment to go beyond certain point on the marginal social cost curve and
marginal social benefit curve. Have we already reached there as a nation where
marginal social cost is overtaking the marginal social benefits instead of
being equal?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Prof. Ali Mazrui</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"> </span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">“Brain drain: how
we lost them to the US”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> According to the
Economist magazine of June 8<sup>th</sup> - July 4<sup>th</sup> 2014, “college
wage premiums”, which is the average gap between salaries for universities
graduates and those with secondary school certificates is about 40% and in some
cases the wage premium is disappearing but “there is no guaranteed windfall for
all who don cap and gown”. “47% of university students in America and 28% in
UK” do not complete their studies and never make to donning caps and gowns.
What are the ratios in Kenya? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Looking
at the current perceived state of insecurity in the country today, just in
education, the citizens are asking “why so much security meltdown despite huge
budgets?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are the problems in both
sectors?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Sessional paper no 10, 1965</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> High population
growth in the country and huge investment in education would demand sustained
efforts investing all kind of mega projects. That is why Prof Kimenyi is of the
opinion that the country needs both human capital development as well as
investment in mega projects. “Bamboo structures” can never support the demands
of the modern state of Kenya. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The immediate
problem, the gap facing us that the two scholars did not focus on, in my view,
is the role of social institutions and personal values in the nation’s economic
development. The so called “education miracle” would amount to nothing without
strong personal values and institutional framework, high level intersection of
formal and informal rules, laws, and personal values. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the nature, importance and relevance of institutional frameworks to economic
growth, let us revisit a popular, generally accepted explanation for the socio
economic marginalization of an arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), all northern
Kenya counties included, resulting the widely held view that there were two
Kenyans:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Kenya A and Kenya B which
began formally in 1965. Dr. Ndii traces the genesis of Kenya ‘A’ and Kenya ‘B’
to Sessional paper Number 10 of 1965 (DN, Nov. 19) as he quotes that historical
document “one of the problems is to decide how much priority we should give to
investing in less development provinces. To make the economy as a whole grow as
fast as possible money should be invested where it will yield the largest
increase in net output”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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- 1966 as we know, were historical watershed years full of whirlwind activities
for the nation as a whole. The emphasis was on “consolidation”. Besides political
and empirical challenges of the day, prioritization of the development agenda
was “the elephant in the room” for the first administration of President Mzee
Jomo Kenyatta and his cabinet. When faced with such kind of economic challenges
as a new nation, political contentions aside, as any young economist and
trained public administration official would acknowledge, there are two
approaches to choose from: balanced growth approach and unbalanced growth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Balanced growth approach advocates for “incrementalism”
and simultaneous engagements of all sectors and regions, what the military
calls “the overwhelming force strategy” - the locust approach. The basic
assumption in this approach is that there are sufficient resources to go round.
Our current devolved approach of Count Focus for National Development (CFND) is
based on the balanced growth model. This strategy was not feasible in the first
two decades of our independence, particularly for reasons of insufficient
resources, human capital limitations and the multiple “national consolidation
whirlwind issues of the day”. In 2013, this dream of balanced development has
become a reality, a number of emerging governance issues and intergovernmental
relations notwithstanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Unbalanced
approach, however, as a strategy of development contends that deliberate,
unbalanced of the economy, in accordance with a redesigned strategy is the best
way to achieve economic growth for a new country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Pareto principle of selecting the 20
percent projects that have would have greatest positive impact on the lives of
the largest number of the population would apply here. This is the approach
Egypt for example selected in 1952 and even before. Egypt concentrated its
economic efforts on the Nile Delta which was the lifeline and the bread basket
of the country. This is common sense and for your information common sense is “belief.”
It does not require advanced university degrees in “economic accounting” or in
any other discipline. For instance if in 1965, one were asked there was enough money
to build only one hospital to serve a population of 400,000 people in a given
region, common sense would inform us to locate the hospital in a place with
highest population density. In the areas where the population was scattered, the
people will use the hospitals in the high density areas as referral. That is
how the concept of “provincial hospitals were developed in the 70s in the first
place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In making the
policy paper of 1965, the leaders of those days apparently had good intentions
and grounded their ideas on sound economic theory; the unbalanced growth
/development approach. Down the years, with hind sight a number of things went
wrong. But the policy intention was valid. What is misplaced, misrepresentation
and preposterous is attributing our 2014 economic problems and those<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>economic issues which would emerge in 50
years hence in 2065 to the sessional paper of No 10 of 1965. We need to be more
clever for that and be more truthful to ourselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">In a
conversation over a cup of tea, I asked a friend of mine named Mr. Mike Simiyu,
what he thought of Dr. Ndii’s Saturday Nation’s articles? I knew Simiyu was a fan
of the economist’s articles. My friend, Simiyu said, “Dr. Ndii is a clever man,
a patriot. But if you want to know why he felt uncharacteristically
disappointed, angry, read his article of July 19, 2014 titled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We’ve been here before: How Jubilee is busy
winding back clock”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Simiyu removed
the article from his briefcase and read it for me. He rhapsodized over with
effective panache of Lake Victorian, Western Kenyan raconteur the content of
that article of July 19. Simiyu passionately argued that “great nations”
everywhere built on character and brainpower, human capital. “The scholar
economist is simply an example of a person with real talent who bitterly feels
“excluded”- lacking inclusivity” in the development of his country despite being
immensely qualified. How can we do “catch up” when were allow rare brains such
as Dr. Ndii to go to waste, reduced to writing complaining newspaper articles
for a living?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simiyu continued “That is
why the good doctor is angry and whether we agree with him or not as he asks in
Kikuyu in his article the rhetorical question, “Are we going to slaughter for
the hyena second time?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Economists have
always said that one of the key prerequisites for economic development is quick
emergence of political, social and institutional framework, which exploits the
impulses to expansion in the nation’s modern sectors and give growth an
outgoing character. Although very young, Kenyans have this framework in place,
yet the nation is facing crises in every turn. This is so because as humans,
there is no such thing as perfect society. As one humanist puts it, “Show me a country
without prisons, courts and poor component in their society and I will show you
a perfect nation”. Even when international delegates and official interacts in
formal and informal businesses what becomes obvious behind the “hardware” are nexus
between dominant values, institutional ethics and the state that drive the
industrial and economic success of many nations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Lacking efficiency </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> There is a joke
to the effect that there was an international conference on “lack of efficiency
and fairness” by world’s governments in their procurements systems and public
expenditure in general. The conference took place in Moscow, Russia. Those who
attended included delegates from Egypt, Kenya and Somalia. During the afternoon
4 O’clock tea-break, while the delegates from Egypt, Kenya and Somalia were
together in a corner having their exchanges, they were joined by a Russian
delegate who was also their host. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Then, as the
four delegates conversed, an international journalist approached them and asked
the Russian delegate first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Please what
is your opinion of lack of efficiency and fairness by governments?” the Russian
replied, “Opinion! What is opinion?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> The journalist
then moved to the Egyptian official and asked, “Please, what is your opinion of
lack of efficiency and fairness by governments?” The Egyptian without blinking
an eye responded, “What is fairness?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The reporter
then moved, to the Kenyan delegate and asked him, “Please, what is your opinion
of lack of efficiency and fairness by governments?” The Kenyan delegate
answered, “Efficiency? What is efficiency?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> The journalist
went to the delegate from Somalia and asked, “Please, what is your opinion of
lack of efficiency and fairness by governments?” The delegate from Somalia
responded, calmly, gesturing with his index finger,” I have small idea of what
is ‘govenrment’, but what is please?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Whereas today on
one hand, on average globally people are living lives of abundance beyond the
wildest dreams of our ancestors, and humankind, through accumulated knowledge,
is able to land a robot on a comet orbiting the sun 300 million kilometers away
at speed of 300 thousand kilometers per hour, on the other hand from race riots
in the USA over killings of black youths, to mass deaths and destructions in
Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Ukraine to the tragedies in Somalia and Nigeria,
attacks in Kenya’s Mombasa, Mandera and Turkana, one would be forgiven for
thinking that we are living in the midst of piece meal, silent yet cruel,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Third, World War and the planet is hurtling
fast towards an apocalypse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Institutions, Institutions, Institutions</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Our present
crisis is crisis of institutions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are
told by the Controller and Auditor general, that over 35 per cent of the
national budget of about Sh 1.6 trillion ($17billion) is lost every year
through “chicken eating businesses”. Is this a validation in 2014-2015 in Kenya
of what Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz described the “Roaring nineties” as “the
greediest decade” in human history?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
recent audit of government staffing revealed 12,000 ghost employees costing
over Sh 7 billion yearly. For sure, we cannot build mega projects and highly
educated society on the “quick sand” of value free nation, “it is our time to
eat” syndrome. This is a crisis of integrity, not intellect, not human capital.
A Somali singer asked the question “when we fall ill, we use medicine. If the
medicine itself become ill, with what shall we treat it?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Has the whole ethos of “duty, honour, and country”
replaced by “me, myself, I and my village?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Many people are asking,
“Where have all the good people gone? Where have all leaders gone?”
Institutions mean both effective organizations that enforce the rules of the
“game” of society and the “rules” such as the laws, the constitution and
informal norms of society that guide social interactions and safety. North and
South Korea, a one nation until at the end of World War II, are divided by the
38<sup>th</sup> parallel, yet economically the South is ahead of the North some
100 years all because of institutional factors: people, integrity, competence
and country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Singapore is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a great example of a city built on, yes human
capital with a GDP of $55,000 against ours of only $1,200. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two scholars, Daron Acemoglu and James
Robinson researched on “Why Nations Fail” and made one major conclusion as the “cause,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Institutions, institutions, institutions”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> That renown
American economist, Joseph Schumpeter, pointed out that a nations economic
development greatly depended on the supply of entrepreneurs<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which also depended<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on the “social climate, habitat”, reflecting
the whole social values-honour, trust, success, political and
socio-psychological atmosphere within which entrepreneurs should and must
operate. In Mandera County today, professionals are ‘moving out’ in droves
because of insecurity yet security is an institutional issue. All these
worrying concerns and tragedies notwithstanding, Kenyans are very hopeful and
see the glass as half full. Thank God we have great country and great people.
Devolution is a work in progress and will take some fifteen years before it
runs on “auto-pilot”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> Scholars such as
Dr. David Ndii and other thought leaders who feel excluded in making a
difference, need to be invited “on the mega project platform” and given
opportunities to become ‘insiders’, benefit the whole nation with their talents,
leadership and values for the sake of posterity. Citizens of a great nation can
only reach a whole new prosperous, competitive levels of quality of life on the
backdrop of combined mega projects, world class education and the best of
institutions formal and informal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><i> In the meantime, I hereby
send my heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of all the 64 heroic,
dear Kenyans who were killed at the savage attacks on the Mandera – Nairobi
bound bus and Mandera quarry on November, 22 and December 2nd respectively, . The deaths of those brave, patriotic, professional
young Kenyans should never, must never be in vain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best way to honour them is for us, the
living, to ensure Kenya endures forever and remains united, peaceful, one
nation, one people under one God.</i></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-69904112219903796922014-09-04T19:41:00.001+03:002014-09-04T21:09:31.369+03:00President’s appointments of senior military officers to public service positions deserve applause<div dir="ltr">
Few days ago President Uhuru Kenyatta made a number of important appointments to positions in the public service. Among those appointed were three senior military officers, namely Major- General Philip Kameru who was appointed as the new Director General of the National Security Service (NIS), Major- General Gordon Kihalangwa, who was appointed to the position of Director of Immigrations and Major- General Joff Otieno who was appointed as Kenya’s new envoy to Cairo, Egypt.
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It was startling for many though, that the nominations of these, only three, and yet overwhelmingly qualified and distinguished Kenyan individuals received mixed responses, some unflattering. For example, regarding these nominations, Mr. Ndung’u Wainaina of the International Centre and conflict was quoted as warning that “militarized democracy is in the making; it is systematic” (Aug 24, DN. P10).it is unclear what he meant by the term ‘militarized democracy.’ While predicting that the appointments of the two senior military officers to key security dockets were highly likely to negatively affect the morale of the non-military officers, Col (Rtd) Benjamin Mwema argued that these appointments “may look rosy from outside but it may not be the same internally,” adding the interesting yet both absurd and incorrect rider that in the military we were taught that there is only one way of doing things, we are not as flexible “(Aug 23,STD,P3).
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It is advisable that those making such uninformed comments about the three appointments to learn to see the forest and the trees and keep one eye on the big national picture and the other on specific events and individuals without mixing the two. While on the big picture, soon as a country we will be celebrating our fifty one (51) years of independence on December, 12, 2014. Because of fifty years of relative peace, unity, social stability and national focus, our institutions both in the public and private sectors have grown in strength and capacities. It is these new found capacities that are enabling the nation and its people to be in a strategic position to pole - vault the numerous socio- economic hurdles emerging on the country’s path to national prosperity and competitiveness.
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We may not be in the same league as South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia in terms of GDP and infrastructure. But Kenya, like a few other African nations, is in the race and the gap between them and us is not widening, rather it is reducing. In order for Kenya to do a successful, strategically developmental ‘catch-up’ and in a relatively short time, it is imperative that the best brains be head-hunted in all sectors and righty deployed in the manner of “square pegs in square holes.” The President’s appointments of the three military officers have to be seen in this light.
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As Prof Peter Kagwana never tires to remind us, whereas “ Kenya is in dire need of world class intelligence juggernaut,” we should avoid the trap of profitless “populist security discourses” and instead aim to have fruitful public debate, if we must, on security grounded on solid knowledge (Aug 24,DN.P19). When a country recognizes that it is in a dire need of world class talents for its vital institutions, to where does it go to engage such talent and competencies? The answer is simply anywhere- as there is no Chinese wall between Kenyans in different departments of state or even those in the Diaspora. Hon Joseph ole Nkaissery, MP, himself a highly respected retired senior military officer, alluded to this logic when he supported the President’s appointment, saying, “not only does the President has the prerogative of appointing people he can trust, but his recent appointments were the best anybody would have done.” </div>
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It is quite in order to digress a little and mention a few special merits why majority of professional military officers are suitable for jobs so nominated in public service anywhere. First, any military worth its reputation as instrument of national survival is “professional intensive institution.” Here competitively selected young officers are developed and trained and rated on more than fifty (50) dimensions or attributes for acceptance into the institution and career progression. Some of these attributes range from integrity, physical fitness, loyalty , passion and skills. Others include ambition, military bearing, professionalism, pedagogy, scholarship, adaptation, initiative and teamwork. </div>
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Secondly, the military is one of the best places in the world to develop all round national leaders. Leaders with acute sense of competency, mission, team and only then self. In the military academies the young officers get at their earliest opportunity time to develop culture of honor, duty, patriotism and loyalty for their country and people. The three senior officers who the President appointed are therefore products of that background.
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In the Harvard Business Review of March, 2008, a two-time Pulitzer prize winner, David McCullough, wrote on ‘’ timeless leadership’’, emphasizing that the modern world needs not only brain power but leaders, ‘’ not just political leaders but leaders in every field, at every level, in every institution in all kinds of situations.’’ There is no two way about it. History has taught us that quality of leadership is what differentiates the great organization or country from the good, the not-so -good, the stragglers, the mediocre, the marking-timers, the messy, the institutional drags and the outright failures.
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The three senior military officers in this case belong to the top one percent leadership category of the members of the military profession and thus have the combined experience and knowledge in their fields exceeding two hundred years! That makes them abundantly qualified for those positions they were appointed to.
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Therefore the President’s appointments of the three senior military officers deserve our applause, not populist unhelpful verbal grenades. </div>
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Meanwhile, I believe it is in order for me to send my personal congratulations to the three Generals and say “well done. Never drop the baton and keep believing that at all times your efforts make great difference for Kenyans.’’</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: inherit;">In his characteristic,
belligerent style, Prof. Makau Mutua, made baseless, malicious attack on a
Nairobi city lawyer, Mr Ahmednasir Abdullahi, in an article in a local daily on
February 16th. The unconscionable write up was to say the least waste of space, petty, empty
rhetoric as it was "unprofessorial".</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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In the subject article, Makau Mutua, without sense of history, irony and
proportion dared to compare Ahmednasir with Egypt's fallen Hosni Mubarak and
the late Gaddafi of Libya. He wrote that the lawyer, Ahmednasir,
the ''gadfly has finally been neutered, vanquished''.<br />
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Mutua wondered ''why man who claims to be well educated speaks and writes in
broken English. Mutua also blamed Ahmednasir for having been tough on the
judges who ''sought to join the Bench after the 2010 constitution''. Where is
the smoking gun in this? None at all!<br />
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In majority of communities in the world
three values are admired most in people. Courage, integrity and ability, both
in intellectual and physical. I believe Ahmedassir demonstrated abundance of
these qualities since he was a young person. That he became a dean of a prestigious,
competitive law school at the tender age of only 28 and again the Chairman of
the law society of Kenya and was eventually elected as a member of the
Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) a test to that. Questioning his academic
qualifications on the basis of a selective bias of the so called his ''English
grammar '' is as good as questioning the knowledge of, for instance Ngugi Wa
Thiongo , on the grounds of his fluency in Kiswahili. To Compare Ahmednasir
with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak or the late Gaddafi of Libya is not only spurious,
"but cheap subway graffiti''.</div>
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The English poet, Kipling, in his poem ''If'', he stated, ''If you can keep
your head when all others are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can
trust yourself when all others doubt you, if you can dream and think and not make dreams your master and don't look too good and
speak too clever, the Earth is yours and all that is in it.'' Is it possible
that Ahmednasir's mistakes are that he looked too good and spoke too clever for
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In the whole nexus of this debate, anyone may ask, where is Professor Makau
Mutua coming from? Before Prof. Mutua moved to another local daily as a
columnist, he had a column with the Sunday Nation, ''Letter from New York,''.
Why did the Sunday Nation jettison him and terminated his column?<o:p></o:p></div>
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When I read Makau Mutua’s latest cheap attack on Ahmednasir, I moved into my
library and sampled 18 articles he wrote in the Sunday Nation columns from
February, 3 rd to August 25th, 2013. I looked at the articles and some
pattern emerged. Interestingly the headings of eleven of these 18 articles,
(61%), begin with ''Why'' this,' ' Why'' that. In secondary schools we were
taught to avoid giving our essays headings beginning with ''why' for obvious
reasons. In majority of the 18 articles with his lofty titles as ''Distinguished
Professor at Buffalo Law School and Chair of KHR-Kenya Human Right Commission,
he, with glee, invoked his ''Methink crystal ball'', to predict the
future outcomes of ongoing national issues that were subject of his writings. A
lot of cockiness and self-adulation are self-evident in these articles. He made
for instance, one such''crystal ball' prediction on June 30th, 2013. He wrote
in the Sunday Nation of that date ''Star Kethi Kilonzo is the Chosen One to
scoop the Makueni Senate without the benefit of the legendary Kamba sorcery, Kamuti''.
Ms.Kethi Kilonzo is a great person and I personally wished she was elected.
Nevertheless her brother, Kilonzo Jr. became the senator of Makueni instead.
Professor Mutua's crystal ball prediction fell flat just like all others. In
that article of 30th June, 2013, Mutuas, just like he attacked Ahmednasir, he
savaged Prof. Philip Kaloki. Mutua wrote that Kaloki's ''claim of the
title of ''professor'' from America college needs further scrutiny. For sure
these were ex cathedra statements for which he suggested no evidence. With the
bias of hindsight, closer analysis of the accuracy of the' crystal ball '' of
Prof. Mutua's social insight reveals a worrying capacity for his poor judgment,
"shooting in the dark alleys" technique. Just imagine two of his favourite
presidential candidates in the last General Election were Prof. James Ole
Kiyiapi and Mr. Titus Naikuni! .The rest, as they say, is history.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Among the 18 articles Prof.Makau Mutual wrote in the Sunday Nation during
the period given, only one made a fair, correct analysis of the subject matter.
That was the one on March 10, 2013, entitled ''Why the Tribe is still king in
Kenya's power politics''. This simply means that Prof. Makau Mutua is about 95
percent of the times wrong in his written, ''well thought out'' predictions, judgments
and opinions of situations in Kenya. He rarely provides objective, a spacious
intellectual, solid and reliable view of social theory and practice .It is thus
tragedy that over 95 percent of the times the words of the
"Distinguished Professor of law" are not only unscholarly but
"unbankable'' on this planet Earth.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Westgate Mall
attack was as senseless and barbaric as the one of 15 years ago, the US Embassy
Nairobi bombing of August, 7<sup>th</sup> 1998. The heinous Saturday, September
21<sup>st</sup> attack, left behind immense loses for the country. 67 innocent
people were confirmed killed, some 240 injured and properties valued at billions
of Kenya shillings destroyed or looted <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Meantime the residents
in the North Eastern Counties such as Mandera, Wajir and Garissa are continuing
to experience heightened bombings at public places and attacks on police
posts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As many people of all nationalities
come to terms with the realities of the senseless losses or injuries of their
loved ones, may God the Almighty grant those injured quick recoveries and those
bereaved strength and comfort to overcome their grief and pain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Westgate attack savage
as it was, ironically brought definitive lessons and the best out of Kenyans.
The Nation’s eyes are focused on the horizon. Never bet against the spirit,
resilience, patriotism, unity, generosity, bravery and reliability of Kenyans
and their international friends. Everywhere the feelings are what a US Second
World War General, McArthur called, Duty, Honour, Country and KDF as Country,
Mission, Team, Self. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Following the attack
on the Shopping Mall, people of all walks of life, myself included, poured in
overwhelming with blood donations, financial, food, water and all other kinds
of contributions volunteering so much so that President Uhuru Kenyatta
emotionally described the public response as “nothing short of wonderful”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Nation’s
Laughter<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">These few lines titled
“The Nation’s Laughter”, which I wrote many years back as a young Air Force
officer could as well best describe the courage demonstrated by the members of
KDF, the National Police Service and even some heroic members of the public
including Kenya Red Cross volunteers on 21<sup>st</sup> September. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“I belief in my
country, one of God’s greatest prize of creation. Personal gain is least of my
priorities, public service is a great gift, most fulfilling of all. In sleep, I
am always in my boots. Hardly do I glance at beauty. For it takes me away from
duty, Kenya Hakuna Matata. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If a country is worth
living, it is worth loving, defending and dying for. If I perish in the line of
duty, do not cry at my burial. Just take care
of my family. And let the Nation’s laughter endure across oceans for ever. Where
ever the morning dew the sunlight finds”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the meantime
serious questions are piling up. Did the terrorists escape? With hindsight,
what have we not done right for this massacre to happen in the capital city of
Nairobi, undetected in advance by our supposedly alert National Intelligence
Machinery? What can be done now to avoid any future similar or even more
devastating incidents? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Preparation,
More Preparations <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There are no perfect
answers to all questions. No silver bullets. Terrorism has existed for 2,000
years. It is as old as human’s willingness to use violence to achieve political
ends. The scourge of terrorism has social and psychological motivation and
underpinnings. However, first as experts and the parliamentary committees
examine certain concerned matters and also determine where do the buck stops,
the role of the respective county Governments in public safety and security
need to be enhanced from the Ward
Administrators to the Governors to complement those of the National Security
Agencies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">All the 47 counties
can benefit from establishing Offices for Emergencies, Planning, and Management
and Coordination (OE-PMC), well resourced, well staffed as places of caring for
the public in the totality of their daily lives and businesses. The themes here
are preparation, preparation, more preparations and over deliveries of public
charter visions. The despicable crime of terrorism visited upon Westgate not
withstanding, Kenyans are ever ‘unbowed’ and never bowing to evil whatever it
is nature or origin. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As for Al Shabaab, it
is simply a by-product of the failed State of their country. Their antidote is
political and economic and reverse engineering of their terrorism. The
international community should continue helping generously in every kind
possible the Federal and Regional States Authorities in Somalia to be strong,
self-sustaining and working again for the dignity and prosperity of their long
suffering peoples. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In meantime, Al
Shabaab is bitter. Very angry for the loss of Kismayu Port. In Westgate they
have tested blood. They have done dress rehearsal for bigger prize. Our cities
maybe under serious threats before things become better. Enemy of security is
‘island of peace’ complacencies. We need therefore, to be red alert
countrywide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Writer is a social commentator. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The question of whether some of our MPs in 55 perennially one term</div><div style="text-align: left;">constituencies "Are Jinxed", considering the outcomes of the last</div><div style="text-align: left;">three general elections ( STD Dec 17, 2011) raise fundamental</div><div style="text-align: left;">questions of leadership performance and voters judgements. Some</div><div style="text-align: left;">legislatures, once elected to the August House with great hope,</div><div style="text-align: left;">promise and fanfare, immediately forget the first law of their job:</div><div style="text-align: left;">The people have hired the MP and the easiest way to be regularly</div><div style="text-align: left;">re-elected is to govern well.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The voting public in every nation have placed their trusts, lives, liberties and</div><div style="text-align: left;">livelihoods in the hands of their elected leaders. Opportunistic</div><div style="text-align: left;">betrayal is therefor fatal for political careers. Citizens painfully</div><div style="text-align: left;">detest alibis. They know true, authentic leader when they see one.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Representation, whether at the national level or county, is always</div><div style="text-align: left;">plural; it always occurs within the context of others; all the</div><div style="text-align: left;">stakeholders of the democratic process, where the center of gravity is</div><div style="text-align: left;">the voter/citizen.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Legislatures and other representatives and the voters are engaged in a</div><div style="text-align: left;">common enterprise. They are dependent on each other, their fortunes</div><div style="text-align: left;">are supposed to rise and fall together. Few people knew the " True</div><div style="text-align: left;">Compass" of the citizens of a democratic country as Edward Kennedy</div><div style="text-align: left;">who, before he passed on in 2009, served his people for almost 47</div><div style="text-align: left;">years as the Lion of the USA Senate with his famous, timeless clarion</div><div style="text-align: left;">call. " For all those whose cares have been our concern (</div><div style="text-align: left;">citizens/voters), the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still</div><div style="text-align: left;">lives and the dream shall never die."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">At every election, people bring their strong fears, expectations and</div><div style="text-align: left;">experiences to the polling booths. They expect and hope their</div><div style="text-align: left;">representatives will enable them achieve extraordinary things.After</div><div style="text-align: left;">all, as Peter Drucker said, it is the test of great leadership to make</div><div style="text-align: left;">ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out</div><div style="text-align: left;">whatever strength there is in its members and to use each person's</div><div style="text-align: left;">strength to help all other members perform and accomplish</div><div style="text-align: left;">socioeconomic prosperity.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The fact that for the initial time and in subsequent elections the</div><div style="text-align: left;">voters returned to parliament Minister Sam Ongeri, Deputy Speaker</div><div style="text-align: left;">Farah Maalim and MP Isaac Ruto among other notables is proof that</div><div style="text-align: left;">every election season comes with it its unique social dynamics. Then</div><div style="text-align: left;">the voters judge an incumbent MP against clear, expected, objective</div><div style="text-align: left;">governance parameters. what do the people say ? Little happens to them without those at top "turning up large rocks." After all bottlenecks are the head of bottles. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In the present Kenya, many things are changing for the better beyond</div><div style="text-align: left;">recognition. These includes absolute constitutional requirements of</div><div style="text-align: left;">leadership of integrity. integrity has number of dimensions. Honesty, truthfulness, reliability and loyalty to people and country are known to be some of the corner stones of integrity. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">You cannot acquire integrity on the job training. It</div><div style="text-align: left;">is not abstract, it is concrete. It is one quality which is advisable</div><div style="text-align: left;">that leaders and managers of public affairs must bring with them</div><div style="text-align: left;">on seeking office. It is a public demand.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Another aptitude seekers of elective office should work to acquire, apparently, are skills of selling oneself and ideas to the electorate. A successful salesperson find out what the people want and help them get it. This is a good lesson for any politician who cares to endure with public applause.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Just as the purpose of business is the creation of a satisfied</div><div style="text-align: left;">customer, the purpose of a political leader is the creation of</div><div style="text-align: left;">empowered, happy citizen, capable of scaling extraordinary heights in</div><div style="text-align: left;">life. Not making or unmaking laws. Profitability and enacting laws are</div><div style="text-align: left;">not the purposes of business and legislatures respectively; only the</div><div style="text-align: left;">test of their validity.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Therefore, overcoming unplanned high parliamentary turnover, jinx, is</div><div style="text-align: left;">an individual commitment, luck or otherwise. Once our political</div><div style="text-align: left;">leaders internalize and appreciate the purpose of their mission in</div><div style="text-align: left;">terms of those " whose cares have been " their privileged duty,</div><div style="text-align: left;">everything else would fall into the correct place. They should,</div><div style="text-align: left;">however, always have sense of strategic timing of when to let it go</div><div style="text-align: left;">and say to all and sundry, " Thank you, goodbye".</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">That is good and proud moment for everyone.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-42737356122248581442012-01-18T15:56:00.000+03:002012-01-18T15:56:55.856+03:00Bullet proofing the National Police governance reformsThere are many definitions of policing and policing strategies. The one I like most defines policing as the process of a state providing security, safety, peaceful environment, law, order and welfare to all its citizens through a standing, yet effective, efficient professional police service. Whereas community's need for effective and trusted policing is a fact of life, in one of his famous nine principles, Sir Robert Peel, founder of London's Metropolitan Police, in 1829 captured the heart of the strategy of modern policing in a democratic society.<br />
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He said, "The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen, in the interest of the community welfare and existence." The fundamental principle of policing in a democratic, non-authoritarian society is that without overwhelming public cooperation and trust, police cannot effectively manage crime, disorder and antisocial behavior. We recognized this basic policing axiom in the Independent Constitution of the Republic in 1963 before any other African country. When we look up to Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa among others as inspirational models of best police practice, it is a demonstration of how much we have fallen behind.<br />
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The 1963 constitution provided for a Police Service Commission (PSC), autonomy to the police, Inspector General of the police who was to be appointed by the President on the advice of the PSC and with security of tenure (Articles 157-162). Over time all those constitutional firewall provisions evaporated through series of regressive amendments that culminated in a one party state in 1982 and the President possessing absolute authority over the Kenya police through the right to appoint and terminate the commissioner of police.<br />
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If the various recent reports on the performance of the Kenya police are anything to go by, the majority of Kenyans strongly believe that cherished communal relationship between the members of the public and the police has broken down and broken badly. This reality had hit us hard during the Post-election Violence of January, 2008. The Reports of the Committees of Justice Philip Waki, Philip Ransley on Police Reforms, Prof. Philip Alston on Extra-judicial killings and own Kenya Police and Administration Police's strategic plans of 2003-2007 confirmed what were public worry all the time; that owing to multi-storied factors the police and the public are not getting on well together. According to Ransley Task Force Report the citizen's trust of their police is, at 8 %, among the lowest in the world.<br />
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It is argued that these African-wide factors which impede policing success range from colonial and post colonial legacies of authoritarian rule, lack of autonomy of policing institutions because of the prevalence of patrimonial- big man rule, lack of appropriate normative and legal framework, weak institutional resourcing and capacity and pervasive insecurity. The Kenya police have 125 years non-linear history beginning in 1887 with Sir William Mackinnon of East Africa Trading Company recruiting Indian police and watchmen for the security of its stores and premises, while invoking the laws of India. Even though the foundation of modern Kenya police was first built in 1920 with the proclamation of Kenya as a crown colony, our police and administration police have had a punitive, authoritarian citizen containment history lasting to the present day.<br />
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Despite the current systemic police governance reforms being in top gear, there is skepticism among the public that the rhetoric behind the police transformation may be a public relations exercise, common feel good platitudes. Apparently there are waves of resistance to the reforms within the higher echelons of the service. Both the public skepticism and the resistance to change coming from the institution's top flight are all understandable and expected. Some of the anxieties of the officers concerns little bolts and nuts of internal policing base ball affairs. <br />
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The public's low level confidence in our security agencies is based on their past historical experiences. This is curable. The negative signals coming from the top hierarchy of the police are not all bad. Some of their apprehensions may be based on genuine fear of the institution falling into “a speed trap"" and also the present inability to see through the fog of change. Besides, there are the challenges of habit, insecurity and the fear of the unknown to overcome. Reforms are also threat to the expertise specialized groups, established power relationships and resource allocations. Good communication, participation and building of support and commitment will easily overcome any undue resistance<br />
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At this point in time there are number factors that can have bullet proofing effects on the national police governance reforms. First, we have new, very progressive constitution in which the police reforms are safely anchored. Second, the three Acts of National Police Service, National Police Service Commission (NPSC) and Independent Police Oversight Authority have together created powerful armoured mechanisms with the potential of making the NPS one of the best, most effective, efficient and respected in the world. Yes, it will take quiet inordinate amount of resource inputs to unfreeze the current police structure, mindset and group inertia. The Kenyan people are seemingly ready to provide the required resource for the police service to perform beyond the expectations of the public, the wow! Factor.<br />
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There is however serious danger of miscarriage of the much awaited police reforms. Despite the existence of battery of legislation to help the reforms, there is high likelihood of business remaining as usual in our public safety and law and order sector, if we do not bullet proof these nationally critical reforms from inherent in-competencies, resources inadequacies, lack of state goodwill, and much needed managerial policing smarts at all levels. Managerial policing smarts are best described as police officers who are clear thinkers, brave, innovative, good at identifying what needs to be done in a given situation and skilled in making it happen and delivering not only good but great results. Kenyans will demand and expect nothing less from occupiers of the state offices of NPSC.<br />
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Studies done elsewhere regarding what distinguishes great police departments from their peers-those whose performance are only good, found that the great law enforcement departments had some ten crucial practices in common, almost in tandem with Jim Collins' book of 'Good To Great' fame. These best practices include; humble, non-egocentric leadership with vision and values, selective hiring of the best and high premium on officers training and education. Others include, excellent equipment and technology, employee empowerment through synchronized thinking, delegation and “letting the horses run in the direction they are running". Finally, first class customer service, police innovation teams, result orientation management approach and supportive, progressive distinct institutional culture distinguish great police departments from mediocre, average, or just plain good departments. As management Guru Collins put it, good is enemy of great. No doubt these are great lessons for the management of our reformed, restructured, re-branded, resourced and reformatted NPS to attain global place of merit. <br />
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The Kenya police governance reforms are uniquely placed to fundamentally change how we have been doing policing business since 1908 when the first colonial commissioner of police, Brig-Gen F S Edwards, was appointed. It is strategy, structure and combination of top of the range resources which brings about a form of policing, locally focused, operationally independent and accountable, that is recognized was world class. A policing style where performance is measured against reduced crime rates, absence of disorder and comparatively low per capita public expenditure on general policing. Presently our per capita police expenditure is about US$ 12. Per any standard this is high.<br />
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As a country this year, 2012, we should and must have NPSC members who have the confidence and commitment to look direct into the eyes of 40 million Kenyans and say, “Trust us. We shall know within short time what problems you face with crimes, motor vehicles traffic, human rights abuses, corruptions, and disorders every day. Together we shall address these issues to the best of our abilities and we won’t be satisfied until you, Kenyans, are and join us in calling the Kenya National Police is for sure one of the best in the world". <br />
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Institutions are hardly murdered. They simply commit suicide by failing to do what the public wants them done. The National police governance reforms are efforts in that direction, saving the country's law enforcement agencies from reckless demise. Thus bullet proofing and protecting the reforms.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-3772166239823342782011-12-26T15:17:00.000+03:002011-12-26T15:17:14.515+03:00No jinx, only performance and social dynamics determine MPs successful re-electionSince Kenya's 1969 single chamber elections, there have always been constituencies where voters apparently got fed up fast with their MPs within one five-year term of their legislature's tenure of office. Yet there is no time voters in any constituency congregate to establish central structure to conspire against a sitting MP.<br />
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I think therefore, there are no persuasive basis for asking hypothetically whether some of the MPs in 55 perennially one term constituencies " Are jinxed" considering the outcomes of the last three elections (STD Dec 17, 2011). The fact that in subsequent elections the voters returned to parliament minister Sam Ongeri, Deputy Speaker Farah Maalim and MP Isaac Rutto among other MPs demonstrate that every election season arrives with it its unique social dynamics. Then the voters judge an incumbent legislature against clear, expected, objective, performance governance standards. <br />
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We should never underestimate the average voter's judgment. Many times the common public have acute understanding of issues affecting their lives and what are possible and just. <br />
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Some MPs, once elected to the August House, forget the first law of their new job: The easiest way to be re-elected is to govern well and on issues, ever be at the center of gravity of the people. The voting public have placed their trusts, lives, liberties and livelihoods in the hands of their elected leaders. Opportunistic betrayal is fatal. It is the sacred duty of every people's representative to preserve the peoples' lives, hopes, liberties and property in an open and accountable government. A government that will most likely bring about their security, safety and happiness in accordance the time honoured constitutional doctrine: government derive its just powers from the consent of the governed.<br />
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It has been argued elsewhere that institutions are rarely murdered; they meet their end by suicide. They die because either they have outlived their usefulness or fail to do the work that their people wants done. MPs are the face of their institution.<br />
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If they want to be re-elected again and again "unjinxed" then, they should and must collectively and individually remain useful and continue to do with great enthusiasm the work their respective voters wants done.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-4476062653573793202011-09-27T09:42:00.000+03:002011-09-27T09:42:19.427+03:00Leadership: In Search Of The Qualities Of The Ten Perfect Waheshimiwas Who Shall Take Us To The Promised Land Of Prosperity<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>SV</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--><span lang="EN-US"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Next year, 2012 will in no doubt be a watershed period for us as a nation and people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be the year when for the first time the national levers of power will change under the dictates of the current one year old Constitution. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">It will be a game changing time. A year when the number of new constitutional office bearers with the formal title of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Mheshimiwa”</i> - honorables shall increase many folds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be the year when the bullet train “Kenya Express”, shall depart the station for the promised land of social stability, peace and prosperity. The promised land of economic competitiveness among comity of nations, just like our inspirational athletes did outperform the World’s super powers, at the recently concluded the 13<sup>th</sup> edition of the IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Today, we are all anxiously set for a momentous national journey. The Legislature and the executive have done a sterling job by putting the necessary Acts for departure in record time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all purposes, it appears soon all we shall be doing are “pre-departure checks”. The critical process for the success of this for mission is having the right people at the right places. The first step of that process has began with the sourcing for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mheshimiwas</i> of the Judiciary and the process is going so well.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The second phase of filling the Kenya Express with the right caliber of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waheshimiwa</i>s (Commissioners) is in respect with Commissions in accordance with Chapter 15 of the constitution. The process of formulating specific Acts and sourcing for the perfect Commissioners in every of the 10 commissions is work in progress. Panelists are everywhere just doing that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kenyans expect at the end of the day to have 10 commissions with 90 commissioners of high intellects, intensity and fidelity to lead these commissions and help run the “Kenya Express” to its desired vision with greatest of precision.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The third and the most critical pre-departure phase of our national journey of having the right people at the right places will be ushered in by the sovereignty of the people on the day of the coming general election. The forthcoming general election will usher in eight additional <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waheshimiwas.</i> These are the President and his deputy, the governors and their deputies, the members of the two chambers of the legislators, the women MPs and members of the county assemblies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, the President will form his or her cabinet secretaries and appoint principal secretaries for the lean yet more powerful and highly resourced ministries.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">While searching for the perfect <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waheshimiwas,</i> we, the voters should appreciate that we are acting as vetting panelists for the President, MP’s and other elective positions. The voters as well as respective Panelists for vetting constitutional office holders need to know the categories of leaders, what motivates them and their action logics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being aware of these categories of leaders will help us make great judgment in selecting or electing perfect <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waheshimiwas</i> for the right positions in our Kenya Express. These six categories are; 1) still-borns, 2) Opportunists, 3) Diplomats, 4) Peacocks, 5) Achievers and 6) Stars</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">First, still-borns are people who, for some reasons, positions of leadership have been thrust upon them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did not earn them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good examples are situations where children of achievers have inherited the leadership positions of their parents but failed miserably, never coming closer to the expectation of their followers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is amazing to note across the World how people with Einsteinian brilliance and courage have off-springs who are so dim witted and so non-public spirited. The voters and others who hire public leaders should be wary of giving public responsibility to those interested only because of having famous surnames.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Second, opportunists are non authentic leaders, unethical, self-centered individuals, who like a good trader, have good business sense. They cannot be trusted with constitutional public office, because most of the time, through words, actions and decisions, they act opportunistically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are characterized by mistrust, ego and they have tendency to focus on personal wealth and promotion and see the office as opportunities to be exploited. They treat other people, even those who supported them at great sacrifice as objects or as competitors who are also out for themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have low opinion on everybody else except themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The voters must always ask, to what extent are their candidates opportunistically self-serving, before giving them their approval.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Examples of these categories of leaders are strewn across our landscape. Corrupt leaders and managers belong here.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Third, diplomats are also professionals who operate from the action logic view that avoids conflicts, seeks to appease higher status and rational efficiency where possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They may be branded as the careerists “running with the hare and hunting with the hounds”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May be they are good as supportive glue and individual contributors to bureautic structure of public and private sectors. They always boast of being the longest serving this or that in Africa. They do not make great political leaders. Voters and panelists alike must seek more adventurous and courageous leaders who are ready to bring about “creative destruction” societal advancement in a Schumpeterian sense.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Fourth, the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">peacocks </i>are category of leadership that is characterized by type of leaders with too much self-importance, intellect, culture and full of display but little substance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In one defense academy, the peacocks were identified as officers who spoke many languages, poets, with outstanding dress, institutional ability and physical presence, but when assigned to field operations, could not deliver one major victory in battle. In the same breath, panelists should know that there are people who are gifted in passing very well interviews but who, like the peacocks, cannot deliver any sustained memorable results of their institutions when assigned to those jobs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Some people could ask, is Prof. P.L.O Lumumba in this category of peacocks?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As in game of football as in most of elements of live, we need scorers, not entertainers. The voters should not be mesmerized by the display of “peacocks”. They should look deeper, discover the real diamond of leaders and hire them in the next election. Peacocks play important roles though, and can occupy special places in the Kenya Express.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Fifth, achievers are people who are mostly desired for goal achievements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are team players, have high sense of responsibilities and managerial duties. They are able to achieve their goals through strategists, personal and organizational transformations. They see themselves as a means to the ends of the needs of the people who hired them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They avoid “blame-storming”. They see issues, own them, solve them and do them. People, who have had history of substantial achievements, belong to this category. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Sixth, stars are uncommon institutional founders and leaders who posses, extraordinary ability to renew or even reinvent themselves and their organizations in historically significant way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They generate social transformation. The best example is the founder of Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Yew and Nelson Mandela. They integrated, the material, spiritual and social transformation of Singapore and South Africa respectively, though Mandela’s legacy is still work in progress. The stars are also called Alchemists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If voters can find possible Alchemists in Presidential candidates and governors, they should not hesitate to give them their votes and hire them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The people who will be seeking elective and other constitutional offices, for sure, will fit well one category or another out of these six. Members of the legislature will consist of people sent to the National Assembly by folks back home. They are expected to consist of extraordinary members and some not so extraordinary on both sides of the aisle and few old soreheads. The voters should vote wisely and help the nation to cross to the promised land of prosperity.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">In other key positions, the appointing authorities and concerned recruiting panelists should only be guided by one thing; strategic interest of the Kenya Express by getting those who are most qualified for the existing positions and fit the billings of the qualities of the perfect Waheshimiwas. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Mr. Khalid is a commentator on social issues</span></b></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-54486814220750205182011-06-18T09:08:00.000+03:002011-06-18T09:08:28.927+03:00People in their hundreds were killed in Wagalla massacre, not just 57<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>SV</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"> For a long time Kenyans will ask these enduring questions: who approved the ungraspable Wagalla massacre in Wajir in 1984, how many people exactly died there or were injured and why? Today the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) is just doing that, endeavoring to unmask the mystery of this historical atrocity committed against hapless ordinary citizens who had not done anything criminal against the Republic.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"> It is being reported frequently with authoritative sense of finality that ’57 people from the Degodia community were killed at Wajir airstrip in the 1984 incident’ (DN June 12, 2011). This creates the wrong impression that what happened then was a mere incident and the casualties involved were ‘only 57’. The outrage and shock of the victims of Wagalla mass killings is not so much due to only of the atrocities visited on them on those days and nights of February 14-19, as it is the attitude of those responsible of ‘hiding in plain sight’ what transpired and the lack of outrage, remorse and empathy on the part of those were in positions of authority then and now. Are we not left with any humanity at all? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"> There are different versions of the causes and effects Wagalla killings which the PC then, Benson Kaaria, just like Bosnian Serb commander, Ratko Mladic, termed “was a big success” without defining the measure of that success, save the scale of its horror. Some matters are known with certainty nevertheless. That following common, low intensity inter-clan rivalry that was supposed to exist between the communities of Degodia and Ajuran, who live in Wajir,as result of routine competition for resources and political representation, a strange, yet very elaborate scheme based on governmental and political process was designed much earlier than 1984 targeting the victims of Wagalla. Given the centralized nature of our public administration, the highest authority in the land must have stealthily approved the Kenya intelligent community the way it did as hinted by the former PS J. Mathenge. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"> Consequently ethnic settlement mappings was done and some 5,000 men from the Degodia community were rounded up and herded into disused, barbed wired airstrip at Wagalla, a small settlement about 11 Kms west of Wajir County Headquarters, leaving behind death and destruction. At the end of four long days of horror, according to the minister for internal security then, Justus Ole Tipis, “only 57 were killed in crossfire”. There was no crossfire and that was the beginning of an iceberg of deceptions, disinformation and cover up. The residents since then have been crying that over 3,000 of their men are unaccounted for.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"> One blessed soul, Anna Lena Tonelli, an Italian Catholic volunteer who worked in Wajir as a medic then but who was later deported to Somalia and cruelly assassinated there wrote “ over 1,000 people were eliminated in the Wagalla atrocity” and prayed “ one day goodness will shine forth and the Envelope of Wagalla will be opened.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;">The late minister Ahmed Khalif compiled and published in the local newspapers, including the Daily Nation, the names of 365 people whose bodies and their sub-clans were identified and properly buried. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"> Therefore while the TJRC continues with its demanding task, it would be highly gratifying if the press were to acknowledge that “hundreds of Degodia community members perished at Wagalla massacre in 1984”. This will correct the erroneous basis of history being created before our very eyes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"><br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: SV;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-706080752606483932011-05-28T11:27:00.000+03:002011-05-28T11:27:37.260+03:00Why building police officers’ leadership capacities will boost their emotional stability<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:HyphenationZone>21</w:HyphenationZone> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>SV</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Following disturbing series of incidences of police officers either<br />
shooting themselves, their superiors, their spouses or risking the<br />
lives of colleagues and the general public, who they are mandated to<br />
protect, the commissioner of police, Mathew Iteere, did the right<br />
thing to commission a team of experts to determine within two months<br />
matters affecting the morale and emotional well-being of officers from<br />
the rank of constables to chief inspectors. Only that whereas the<br />
emphasis of the team’s focus should naturally be on the welfare of the<br />
cutting edge, frontline officers, the team’s terms of reference must<br />
have depth and should not have been limited, and should extend to all<br />
members of the service and their work environment. As it is, it might<br />
send the wrong message as a public relation exercise, underlining a<br />
power distance, upstairs, down stairs, ‘them and us’ dichotomy way of<br />
viewing issues.<br />
<br />
It has been argued many times at many places that “insufficient<br />
budgetary allocation, poor working conditions, equipments, long<br />
working hours and lack of counseling” are some of the causes of stress<br />
among officers and thus emotional instability leading to shooting<br />
incidences. Whereas this could be partly true, the question is, in<br />
Africa, Asia and America, dear Kenyans, where is budgetary allocation<br />
for any public department is “sufficient”, working conditions,<br />
equipments and working hours are top flight and most ideal? Like the<br />
weather everyone is unfairly blaming the Treasury! We should be<br />
mindful of the fact that scarcity and inadequacy of resources is a<br />
universal law of economics, more so in this part of the world. We<br />
should know better.<br />
<br />
In institutional management, the single greatest determinant in<br />
personnel motivation, pride, loyalty, team work, enthusiasm and<br />
therefore health is leadership. More than anything else, we need to<br />
build strong leadership capacities of all ranks of the service, from<br />
the desk officer to the county boss, who may be called County<br />
Commissioner of police under the reformed structure underway. Why<br />
would young, educated, trained police officers, full of live in a<br />
peace time loving society and country go berserk, shooting their<br />
colleagues, the members of the public and eventually ,not all, turn<br />
the guns onto themselves? Apparently these officers did not feel they<br />
were part of a team, a system. Rather they appear to have been<br />
neglected, felt lonely, without friends and no one to listen to and<br />
act on their emotional needs. They did not respect and love their<br />
seniors. Why?<br />
<br />
As history confirms and they say in the military, “there are no bad<br />
troops: only bad leaders”. Senior police officers must partly take<br />
responsibilities for what is happening to their officers under their<br />
watch. Police officers, just like their counterpart public officers,<br />
are expected to be men and women with ambition and strong belief in<br />
Kenya and the goodness of their loving communities. Stress is defined<br />
as a response to excessive physical or psychological demand on person.<br />
The sources of it could be from outside the police service, within the<br />
police structure, immediate colleagues or the individual officers<br />
themselves.<br />
<br />
Good leadership can for sure moderate the effects these factors have<br />
on the morale, performance and emotional stability of the police<br />
officers. One way of enriching and renewing the leadership capacities<br />
of the police service is through international training and exchange<br />
programs in selected countries such as UK, Australia, USA and South<br />
Africa on bilateral arrangements. Every two years a few middle ranking<br />
officers could be selected competitively for such programs and<br />
training. The commissioner should be supported in his good initiative.<br />
<i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-20541671761295460042011-04-27T11:10:00.000+03:002011-04-27T11:10:56.893+03:00Make Human Rights compulsory examinable subject in all learning institutions<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>here is a strong need to make the concept of Human Rights (HR) more tangible, less abstract and immediate to the lives of the majority of 40 million Kenyans. The struggle for our independence and the new 2010 National Constitution were mainly driven by demand for greater human rights and better democratic, accountable governance practice in our public affairs management structures. That is why the new constitution has such elaborate Bill of Rights provisions, perhaps the world’s most detailed, with some 41 articles. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtBYe9U9kf4-MDjiN2BWIXg9ZEAwTovOObqBlegGunP9-23Lkg-CPF7S1VfJjZ2orWTIR9zZ00i2ba98KSil8VgzqXQ71-4tDj_UFUSj3SCJXJGsxE7epdfcGU6OyGtJKmmpBlwmvD4LU4/s1600/sketch+boy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtBYe9U9kf4-MDjiN2BWIXg9ZEAwTovOObqBlegGunP9-23Lkg-CPF7S1VfJjZ2orWTIR9zZ00i2ba98KSil8VgzqXQ71-4tDj_UFUSj3SCJXJGsxE7epdfcGU6OyGtJKmmpBlwmvD4LU4/s200/sketch+boy.jpg" width="151" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The challenge is how to institutionalize human rights values not only in our personal lives but also in the culture and management of the national institutions. Some people even think that HR is a narrow field which is a domain for lawyers. Nothing can be further from the truth. Best of teachers have always reminded us,” Whatever career you may choose for yourself, doctor, lawyer, teacher, military, make a career of humanity, human service professions. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">By HR we generally mean those rights which we say belong to all people because they are simply humans, regardless of national origin, race, culture, religion, age, gender, or anything else. Human dignity is first of them. Whereas such rights are universal and apply to everyone, everywhere, some of us argue that human rights is an exclusively western cultural construction, “colonialistic concept and in language”. This is not true.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Though the term ‘human rights’ may not always be used, as author Jim Ife put it, ideas of human dignity and worth, ideas that all people treated according to certain basic standards, ideas that people should be protected from ‘human right abuse’, and ideas of respect for the rights of others are not confined to the western intellectual tradition. To assume that they are is to devalue those other religions and cultural traditions that such critics claim to be supporting.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What is more or less given is Africa has the lowest human rights values of the world’s continents. This is so because culturally, apparently African societies have low levels of human right traditions, as Chinua Achebe immortalized in his book, ‘Things Fall Apart’, where all types of human rights abuses were committed and where twin babies were dumped and killed as evil spirits. Add that to four<span id="goog_1338745297"></span><span id="goog_1338745298"></span> centuries of slavery, brutal European colonialism, apartheid and post-independent African dictatorships of Idi Amin’s and Robert Mugambe’s proportions and what do we have: the world’s saddest and most pessimistic, stoic people!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 8.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In order to make HR practices the norm and be appreciated everywhere in the country, and make Kenya the best in Africa, humans rights should be made a compulsory examinable subject in all our learning institutions. The countries with best human rights records are also the most prosperous. Therefore, from universities and across all faculties, teacher training colleges, Government owned Institutes to police, prison and military academies; human rights subject should be made a must. If not the provisions of the new constitution will just remain that, good sounding, far-fetched abstracts that have little bearings on the lives of majority of Kenyans<b>. </b></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-59254360763038982362011-04-24T21:40:00.000+03:002011-04-24T21:40:14.921+03:00PROBLEMS WITH POLICE SERVICE ARE NOT SO MUCH WITH TRAINING NEEDS AS IT IS WITH INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal">In spite of the police service being one of the most indispensable<br />
public service for national prosperity, through fighting all<br />
categories of crimes, keeping law and order and protecting people’s<br />
lives and properties, the performance of the police has been under<br />
severe attack for sometime now. There are all types of public<br />
complaints. From corruptions, unprofessionalism in dealing with<br />
members of the public and crimes, extra-judicial killings, lacking<br />
public trust, to outright indiscipline where in less than three years<br />
we note with grief 15 dedicated police officers being killed by their<br />
own colleagues. Latest are the two officers tragically shot dead in<br />
March by a fellow policeman, Constable Martin Mutwiri at Naro Moru<br />
police station.<br />
Of course, the Government has responded to the public outrage. One of<br />
these responses includes Judge Philip Ransley’s Taskforce which<br />
recommended far reaching reforms in the Kenya police and<br />
Administration police. Some of the reforms are constitutionalized.<br />
Curriculum and training policy changes and extending training periods<br />
for police recruits to 15 months and the cadets up to 21 months,<br />
apparently are part of other reforms aimed at making Kenya Police<br />
world class, comparable only with the best, and satisfy deservingly<br />
high expectations and pride of the Kenyan people.<br />
However, what is being discounted is that problems with our police are<br />
not so much with training needs as it is with institutional<br />
constraints. Police do not operate in vacuum. They are bound by<br />
national laws, internal standard operating procedures and work in a<br />
complex arena, with many budgetary resource limitations and social<br />
systems of accountability. These are the internal and external<br />
institutional matrixes that have enabling and constraining effects on<br />
the performance of the police.<br />
When for instance, new young police officers who have just graduated<br />
from the college after long, vigorous training, assume their duties,<br />
they will be confronted by their superiors with a time tested, iron-<br />
wall of service culture,” Forget about the academy and your<br />
certificates. These are how things are done here”, attitude. Through<br />
both aggressive and subliminal socialization, within no time, the<br />
young police officers will get reality check and melt into their new<br />
environment. That way, if we are not careful, all police reforms will<br />
always remain “business as usual”, non-starter.<br />
Whereas the constitutional provisions of National Police Service and<br />
National Police Service Commission will go along way redesigning and<br />
re-branding the police service, we should be alert to the fact that<br />
significant change will be bottom up, evolutionary, take time, five to<br />
ten years to prove themselves and gain general acceptance. The<br />
challenges are how to overcome institutional barriers and align the<br />
Kenya Police’s age old culture and its present reform strategies with<br />
the demand and expectations of the public under the new constitution.<br />
We only hope that those Kenyans who will assume the new offices in the<br />
police service commission will be eager beavers, perspective thinkers,<br />
who shall be equal to the tasks. Once started, the momentum of reform<br />
must never be allowed to falter, even little.<br />
<br />
Billow Khalid<br />
Wajir</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-40489053815880410982011-04-23T20:41:00.000+03:002011-04-23T20:41:20.641+03:00Wagalla survivors seek reparation<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">The pain of the human catastrophe plotted and executed by the Government on February 14, 1984, at Wagalla airstrip, a small settlement some 11km west of Wajir County headquarters, will endure forever.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In many regards, the pain is not unlike what was experienced during atrocities visited on Kenyans during the 1950s Mau Mau uprisings. But at least the Mau Mau case against the British Government is before the High Court in London.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What makes the Wagalla Massacre even more revolting and agonisingly traumatic is that it was committed and covered up by fellow Kenyan public officials and security officers.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Security forces rained terror on patriotic, hapless citizens who had not committed any crimes against the nation. Sadly, we may never know exactly what happened on that fateful day and how many people were brutally killed and maimed.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One thing, however, not in doubt is that following flimsy accusations of possession of illegal arms and inter-clan conflict – and acting on irrational "instructions from above" – some 5,000 men from the Somali Degodia clan were forcefully rounded up at night.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Raped women</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">They were taken from their homes in Wajir town by a joint security team and herded into the barbed-wired airstrip at Wagalla, leaving behind raped, abused women and destroyed homes.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">And at the end of four long, hellish days, according to then Internal Security Minister Justus ole Tipis, "only 57" were killed, as if this number was not outrageous enough!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">However, the late Hon Ahmed Khalif, at great risk to his life, produced and published in the local papers the names and identity card numbers of some 400 people who were confirmed and identified as part of the crowd that was massacred.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Residents have since then insisted that over 4,000 of their men were unaccounted for. The ratio of those identified by the late Khalif and those said to be unaccounted for by residents is 1:10. This ratio appears to be consistent with historical, conflict situation figures of the dead, missing and injured.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Public inquest</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Last year, Prime Minister Raila Odinga instructed the Attorney General to initiate a public inquest into the Wagalla Massacre. While this gesture is welcome, it is not enough and will amount to almost nothing.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This month, members of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) are in Wajir to hear the ordeals the residents here suffered at the hands of the Government.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">What the orphans, widows and survivors of the Wagalla Massacre are asking from their Government are simple: a genuine apology, empathy, and financial compensation of, say, Sh3 million for any person who died. Then the healing process will surely start.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One would be tempted to ask, who shall be compensated? A neutral committee can be formed for the purpose and the best place to begin would be with the late Khalif’s list.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">In the light of the new Constitution with its elaborate human rights provisions, we cannot afford to have wailing widows year in, year out because of gross abuse of their fundamental, basic rights.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-63907730117550746452011-04-02T19:48:00.000+03:002011-04-02T19:48:13.810+03:00WE NEED TO CHANGE WORKINGS OF OUR INSTITUTIONS IN ORDER TO BOOST SUPPLY OF ENTREPRENEURS <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal">The importance of entrepreneurs to the socioeconomic well being of any country cannot be over emphasized. Entrepreneurs in a country are men and women who are business minded, risk takers, employment and wealth creators and who provide goods and services to the market to satisfy the basic needs and wants of the larger society. Without active, progressive, innovative and ever expanding class of entrepreneurs, any economy stands to shrink and wither away. Even the national treasury will face severe budgetary constraints due to insufficient tax inflows.<br />
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Whereas in our case, the largest percentage of the ordinary tax revenue comes from large business companies such as Safaricom,<br />
according to the Government's Economic Survey of 2010, it is the 2 million small and medium sized enterprises that employ the largest number of workforce. The sector employs 8.3 million people, contribute 18 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and creates 590,000 jobs annually, though representing only about 10 percent of total exports. However, it is imperative to appreciate that the nation's technological progress and the rate of resource discovery-innovations depend on the supply of entrepreneurs.<br />
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The entrepreneur is the person who sees the opportunity for introducing a new technique or a new commodity, an improved organization or for the development of newly discovered resource. In our universities, research institutions and government departments are filled with reports and studies for innovations, inventions and Edisonian ideas that never see the light of day. For inventions or resource discoveries to be significant, someone with special talent for seeing their economic potential and bringing them into use must come along. That person is the entrepreneur.<br />
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Over the years, what has been recognized is that the supply of entrepreneurs, a factor of production, depends on the expected rate of profits, and what Douglass North of Washington University calls, " The institutional matrix to which organizations owe their existence." <br />
North defines institutions as the rules of the game of society or more formally are the humanly devised constraints that structure human interaction. They are composed of both formal rules such as laws and informal constraints such as cultures.<br />
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Introduction of business education in our schools and occupational training for small business owners have been undertaken as one of the streams of enhancing quality and fostering supply of the country's much needed entrepreneurs.Even though this efforts are laudable , they are not enough to make substantial difference. Our problems are deeper and wider. They are with our institutions, the social climate, which are the entrepreneurs understanding of the rules of the game; the conditions under which they must operate. From demand and taxation levels, security, corruption, licensing procedures, infrastructure, fidelity of employees and the whole lot of general public cultures, attitude and political environment.<br />
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In the light of our up coming county governance system, there is strong need to re-evaluate the workings of our formal and informal institutions with the aim of drastically improving the supply of the country's entrepreneurs as a whole and their competitiveness. <br />
Matters that need urgent review to this end include formal regulations and laws as well as informal issues such as traditions and cultures of our communities in the respective counties and districts within counties that are impediments to business start ups and venture creation. That way we would boost both the quality and quantity of the nation's entrepreneurs.<br />
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Billow Khalid<br />
Wajir</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-83284342014337463382011-03-24T00:25:00.000+03:002011-03-24T00:25:28.094+03:00Form equalization fund urgently to curb inequalities<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</style> <![endif]--> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">T</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">he Ministry for Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands sponsored series of consultative meetings last year between members of parliament and professionals from 13 counties of North and South Rifts, Upper Eastern, North Eastern and Coast.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfxVqI4ajbgw1c45rw3i74qrT7C4GILb9qfLH-ij3PTlcJPCZOnhFVbblxGVxbqT8WvAqM4HjaOJBfg115yoFS_XqtWwLi6hmfcODex5W_ZKPIptanbgHMG7GvIbwr0NS4ct_5Cp7Hr_km/s1600/honey_drop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfxVqI4ajbgw1c45rw3i74qrT7C4GILb9qfLH-ij3PTlcJPCZOnhFVbblxGVxbqT8WvAqM4HjaOJBfg115yoFS_XqtWwLi6hmfcODex5W_ZKPIptanbgHMG7GvIbwr0NS4ct_5Cp7Hr_km/s320/honey_drop.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Better understanding of the opportunities, expectations, challenges and fears of devolved governance for the arid lands was the main objective of these forums and subsequent county meetings. The initiative and efforts of the ministry was highly appreciated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">As a follow up to the National Forum on Devolved Governance in arid lands held at Bomas of Kenya on December 3, the ministry arranged a three-day meeting for some 200 professionals, cross-section of leaders and Members of Parliament from North Eastern region at Garissa on February 25 to 27.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At Bomas it was emphasised the country’s sustained economic prosperity was dependent on the effective performance of all the 47 counties. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">None were to be left behind and with time accelerating the productivity of those historically not so much endowed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At Bomas Forum, people were reminded that in 1963, Kenya was twice as rich as Singapore but "today Kenya’ per capita is $780, barely double of what it was in 1963, while Singapore is $50,000 up from $180 in 1963. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The best to contrast with Singapore, in my opinion are Djibouti, Eritrea and Kuwait. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At the North Eastern leaders and professionals meeting in Garissa, it was generally felt the new county devolved structures will come with much opportunities, benefits and also heavy responsibilities for the leaders as well as ordinary people. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">KEY PROBLEMS</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Specifically for the communities of Northern Kenya, their fears include lack of capacities, heightened clanism and conflicts, poor infrastructure, pettiness, inadequate financial base to address the multi-storied problems of the new counties and worsening of inter-county and inter-regional socioeconomic inequality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In order to grant some kind of fairness, the new Constitution has provided for Equalization Fund under Art 204 which is only "one half per cent of revenue collected by the national government every year". This is little money. It is about Sh4 to Sh5 billions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Sharing that among 13 infrastructural starved counties, with over 40 constituencies is like a drop of water in the Kalahari Desert, even in the long run.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">One option of allaying the fears of the less developed counties such as those in the arid lands is to expand and establish an Equalization Fund Management Authority with a threshold capital expenditure outlay of Sh50 billion per year to help these counties grow faster and catch-up with the rest. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Such intentional and forceful initiative is not undertaken now, by 2030 or thereabout, some of our counties would be socio-economically like Chad, while others would be like Qatar. That is not permissible.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Billow Khalid,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Wajir</span></i><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-796954019147149122011-03-02T14:01:00.000+03:002011-03-02T14:01:57.438+03:00Africa's Stakes of ContentionWhat's Africa's stakes of contention ?<br />
Ocean of deprivations in midst of lands of riches,<br />
Africa where for majority survival is at tether's end,<br />
And the inner eyes are outward bent, <br />
On self gluttonous gratification fully bent,<br />
<br />
Where lust for power, comfort and mountains of wealth,<br />
W ether honestly or dishonestly accessed<br />
Are the predatory past times of young and old,<br />
<br />
Where integrity, love and compassion for the poor and the feeble<br />
Are contemptuously frowned upon as the traits of the unbeautiful,<br />
People simply develop stoic, irritable unsmiling instincts,<br />
Dry of the dew of little things in life,<br />
<br />
And Africa's valley of stakes of contention<br />
Even becomes wider, deeper,<br />
Oh God!,help Africa awake,<br />
From stakes of its contention<br />
And gain life of light<div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-81415861940764394242011-02-28T20:24:00.000+03:002011-02-28T20:24:07.902+03:00REGIONAL FORUM ON DEVOLVED GOVERNANCE IN THE NORTHERN KENYA & OTHER ARID LANDS<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>FRIDAY 25<sup>TH</sup> FEBRUARY, 2011, GARISSA</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d; text-align: justify;"><b><i>THE DOUBLE EDGED SWORD OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION’S ADDITIONAL LEGISLATURE SEATS AND CREATION OF DEVOLVED GOVERNMENTS:</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #20124d; text-align: justify;"><b><i>IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF RESIDENTS OF NORTH EASTERN COUNTIES</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b></b></div><b><span style="color: black;"></span></b><b><span style="color: black;">Background</span></b> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span style="color: black;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZbYEiMlp_XHLGkBIzSoR5ID0MNYBR1-UUBr807vnzbTwUkEbWkx-dBjlH3GXPaye3dUwpp7IyoN-gqFVgzcNtG_0uofJIgE-7VVHEuGnMxac0zj1wbaTkTi8KXQq3rzS2RR4gDlOZD7U/s1600/kenya-map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZbYEiMlp_XHLGkBIzSoR5ID0MNYBR1-UUBr807vnzbTwUkEbWkx-dBjlH3GXPaye3dUwpp7IyoN-gqFVgzcNtG_0uofJIgE-7VVHEuGnMxac0zj1wbaTkTi8KXQq3rzS2RR4gDlOZD7U/s200/kenya-map.jpg" width="200" /></a>This is a summarized discussion points prepared by Billow Khalid for a two-day forum of professionals and political leaders of North Eastern Kenya organized by the Ministry of Northern and Other Arid Lands held in Garissa from 25-27<sup>th</sup> Feb, 2011. The purpose of the forum was to ensure the region has, come 2013, good start of county governance and benefits from the New Constitution and with time reduce inter-county economic inequality by promoting faster per capita growth of these counties in the potential lands.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br />
</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b> Introduction </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br />
</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">As we all know, on 27<sup>th</sup> August 2010, the people of Kenya have promulgated a New Constitution with far reaching consequences for the leadership, political, social and economic management of our country.<span> </span>Most important are the additional seats of MPs, Senators, Women MPs, Nominated Senators and the creation of 47 Devolved County Governments for the whole country.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">In Northern Kenya, we shall have Garissa, Wajir and Mandera Counties. Presently we have 11 MPs.<span> </span>In the New Constitution, we hope to have 18, addition of 7 more, 3 Mandera, 2 Wajir and 2 Garissa.<span> </span>Each of the counties will have one Senator and one Woman MP, elected by the residents of the whole respective counties.<span> </span>Besides the legislatures, there is the issue of structure of Devolved Governments.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">The Devolved county governments are guided by the principles of promoting democratic culture and accountability, foster national unity, protection of interests and rights of minorities and ensuring to “have reliable sources of revenue to enable counties to govern and deliver services effectively”. (Arty 174-176). <span> </span>Some counties may be delayed to take off until 2015.<span> </span>Definitely, we do not want to be part of those who may be delayed to take off.<span> </span>These additional legislature seats and creation of county governments can bring greater benefits to our people, but also carry the risk of making our North Eastern counties become “mirror of Somalia regions” in terms of mistrust, insecurity, nepotism and bad governance.<span> </span>Thus, the New Constitution may become a Double Edged Sword.<span> </span>If we are not very careful, we may hurt ourselves badly.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">This brief discussion paper therefore aims at bringing forth the best way we can maximize the gains of this New Constitution for our people and how to manage and control any adverse consequences from its implementations – both at the Devolved Government level and the additional legislative seats.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>County</b><b> Governments</b></div><br />
<ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="1"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">A County Government will have two levels of management:-</li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -19.5pt;"><span>(1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>A county executive consisting of <b>governor,</b> <b>deputy governor</b> and <b>executive committee </b>appointed by the governor and approved by the county assembly and not exceeding <b>ten</b> or one-third of the number of members of the county assembly, assuming the assembly has less than thirty members.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 37.5pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -19.5pt;"><span>(2)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>County assembly members from number of wards to be determined by an Act of Parliament and the Speaker who is not a member of the assembly.<span> </span>The number of wards will be fixed by a legislation of parliament.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Powers and functions of county governments are provided in the Fourth Schedule, P 186.<span> </span>Budgetary allocation will come from national governments, Equalization Fund, CDF and other devolved funds and allowed local revenues.<span> </span>In the case of North Eastern counties, the annual revenue will be anywhere between Kshs. 2.5 bn to Kshs. 3.5 bn and growing at over 10% depending on the national budget and size of ordinary revenue.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Mandera County as an example of the three counties</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">Mandera county, which borders Somalia and Ethiopia has an area of 34,000km<sup>2</sup> and a population of one million plus.<span> </span>Both Garissa (43,000km<sup>2</sup>) and Wajir (56,000km<sup>2</sup>) have a population of about 650,000.<span> </span>Mandera County has 6 Districts ;( Madera East, Lafey, Elwak, Rhamo, Takaba and Banisa).<span> </span>Each district is a Parliamentary Constituency.<span> </span>The communities there are by and large homogeneous, generous, forgiving, understanding and need sincere leadership from all levels, particularly from the Ulamas, elders, professionals, experts such as health experts, government agencies, community and political leaders anywhere and everywhere.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Development Inputs</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><u><br />
</u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">The Pastoralists of Mandera county have according to the August census 2010, camels; 600,000, cattle; 700,000 and goats & sheep; 4 million.<span> </span>Assuming the price of a camel Kshs. 50,000; cattle; Kshs. 25,000 and goat and sheep Kshs. 2,000.<span> </span>The wealth of only these three categories of livestock is Kshs. 55.5 billion – camel Kshs. 30 bn, cattle Kshs. 17.5 bn and goats & sheep Kshs. 8 bn.<span> </span>This comes to per capita income of Kshs. 55,500 = US $ 694, just about the national per capita income of US$ 700.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></td> <td style="border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 72pt;" valign="top" width="96"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Camel</b></div></td> <td style="border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 82.8pt;" valign="top" width="110"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cattle</b></div></td> <td style="border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 97.2pt;" valign="top" width="130"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Goats / Sheep</b></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.9pt;" valign="top" width="79"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Mandera</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Wajir </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Garissa </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Total </b></div></td> <td style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 72pt;" valign="top" width="96"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">600,000</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">700,000</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">400,000</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.8 m</b></div></td> <td style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 82.8pt;" valign="top" width="110"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">800,000</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">900,000</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">1,000,000</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.7 m</b></div></td> <td style="border-color: -moz-use-text-color windowtext windowtext -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: medium 1pt 1pt medium; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 97.2pt;" valign="top" width="130"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">4m</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">4.6m</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">3.4m</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>12 m</b></div></td> </tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>Figure 1: Livestock population North Eastern: Source G.O.K Census 2010.</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Agricultural farmlands along River Dawa and informal sector industries, retail and cross-border trade and more have the capacity to exceed the wealth of the livestock sector.<span> </span>All these are “dead” potential wealth, never exploited for lack of markets, organizations, investments and poor roads. Good effective county government will unlock these huge potentials and make Mandera county to catch up quickly with the rest of the country.<span> </span>The secrets are transformational leadership and public investments.<span> </span>Then the world will come to us.<span> </span>Our children will then perform best at the best universities anywhere. The same is true in terms of wealth of the other two counties, Garissa and Wajir.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Double-Edged Sword</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">The New Constitutional arrangement for Kenya has come when regionally we are still in the “mud of clanism; ethnicism” and rivalry for non-existence resources such as public sector employment.<span> </span>Our attitude, reasoning and actions appear to be guided by age old pastoralists – nomad’s narrow view of things, mean, static and never seeing that “we are because they are” and no peace, prosperity and sustained prestige for any society is possible, if it is not all inclusive, and consciously not bringing up the poor, minority, disabled, women, youths and mainstreaming the needs and interests of one and all.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">In the case of our counties, first we pray that Allah (s.a.w) multiplies the resources and ability of our people.<span> </span>We pray that petrol, gas and minerals, peace and prosperity be found within the borders of this county.<span> </span>Having said that, we expect by 2012, there will be following elective positions in anyone of the <b>three counties as an illustration discussion only</b>. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>a)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>6 MPs</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>b)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>1 Senator</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>c)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>1 Woman MP</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>d)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>1 Governor</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>e)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>1 Deputy Governor</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Total<span> </span> – <span> </span>6 + 4 = 10</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">These ten elective positions do not include county Assembly members, their speaker and members of the executive committee, which together with the governor and his deputy form the county Government.<span> </span>Sword, just like time, can be used to cut things and if it’s not used as desired, it can backfire and “cut” us.<span> </span>To this end, these 10 elective positions, together with the members of the county assembly, the executive committee and budget allocated by the national government, if we are not careful and have the goodwill, blessings, consultations and prayers of our Ulamas, professionals, elders, businesspeople, youths and women, all inclusive, there is the risk of creating bad blood, suspicions, mistrust, envy, corruption, nepotism and conflict.<span> </span>Finally we may plant seeds of destruction of our county “mirroring conflictual regions “ When most of the other counties are speeding ahead with development and social progress – health-education, water and economy, we could remain standstill or even move backwards or worse not get permission from the national government to run our own county government until 2015 or thereafter.<span> </span><b>This is the cutting edge of the sword, which may hurt us all.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">If we do not manage our county well, particularly at the start we could set bad precedence.<span> </span>Most important, the senator, governor, deputy governor, woman MP, speaker and executive committee members should be selected based both on merit and fair, balanced sharing of among communities, while observing all the principles of devolved government and general good of all.<span> </span>Bottom line, no single community should complain of exclusion and marginalization.<span> </span>The Lebanon model might even work here.<span> </span>In Lebanon, during the civil war in the 80s, they agreed the president, prime minister and the speaker of parliament should come from separate religious groups.<span> </span>In our case, we could agree the senator, governor; deputy governor; woman MP and county speaker, at least four of these should each belong to separate clan groups and can become the unwritten law of the county.<span> </span>Same principles can be applied in all counties. <span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span> </span>The residents of our three counties in Northern Kenya should be among the most optimistic, hopeful and contented people among the 47 counties.<span> </span>That should be our mission.<span> </span>That way we should attract transformational projects, investments <span> </span>and goodwill from within and outside the borders of our county.<span> </span>That is the useful side of the sword.<span> </span>Our people should and must benefit from the new arrangement of the constitution.<span> </span>Since 98% of households in North Eastern are poor and over 97% of our girls do not attend schools, our counties <b>should be the <span></span>most improved</b> <b>counties in the country within a period of ten years.</b> <b>Our guide in the new counties must never be the saying “the smallest deserves beatings and strongest take it all”.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Role of all Leaders and the Professionals</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">Wiseman said, “The best among you is the learned” but we know also the most dangerous people of all are the educated who use their knowledge, education and authority for bad cause.<span> </span>The poet asked when people become sick, they take medicine and when we feel thirsty, we take water; what happens when the medicine itself becomes ill and the water feel thirsty?<span> </span><b>With what would the medicine be treated and quench the unusual thirst of the water?</b> We must pull our efforts together with other professionals and leaders at all levels.<span> </span>The message is security and successful, everlasting political and economic success in our counties in 2012 and for ever thereafter.<span> </span>Because of our presence and work here today let the future generations say of us, “they came, they conquered and they left behind something good for all of us.<span> </span>May God have mercy on them,” while remembering some 2,500 years history of our people. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">We, leaders and professionals at all levels should work with love, for as Khalil Gibran, the Lebanese poet said:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">And whole urge is blind save when there is knowledge,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">And all knowledge is vain, save when there is work,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">And all work is empty save when there is love (for people </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">And communities),</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">And when you work with love, you bind</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">Yourself to one another and to God </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">To paraphrase Dr. K. Aggrey, only the best is good enough for our people, let the eagle soar.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Human Rights in the Context of our Counties </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><b><u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br />
</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Where there are no effective human rights, there is no governance worth talking about.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">Human rights are derived from the inherent dignity and worth of the human person and they are universal, inalienable and equal.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Human Rights Principles in Kenya’s Constitution</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>The Bill of Rights is an integral part of Kenya’s democratic state and is the framework for social, economic and cultural policies.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>The purpose of recognizing and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms is to preserve the dignity of individuals and communities and to promote social justice and the realization of the potential of all human beings.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 54pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>The rights and fundamental freedoms in the Bill of Rights – belong to each individual and are not granted by the state.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Quotation</b> – Theory of self esteem and importance of Human Rights.<span> </span>Leaders and professionals at all levels should pursue human rights as a hobby as the following quotation shows: </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“Whatever career you may choose for yourself – doctor, lawyer and teacher – let me propose an evocation to be pursued along with it.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Make it a central part of your life.<span> </span>It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possible can.<span> </span>It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow humankind.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Make a career of humanity.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in”.<span> </span>Effective Human rights builds the self esteem and confidence of individuals and communities everywhere<b>.<span> </span>Do the residents in the Arid Lands have surplus or deficit esteem relative to the national average?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Where do universal rights begin particularly in our counties?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">“In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world.<span> </span>Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination.<span> </span>Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.<span> </span>Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.” <b>Why in small and remote places?</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Conclusion and Recommendations: Walking the talk<span> </span><u><span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify;">In conclusion, the Minister and his officials and other leaders deserve maximum praise and support in their efforts to this end.<span> </span>The devolved governance has tremendous benefits for the country, particularly the residents in under developed regions.<span> </span>In order to derive maximum advantage from the new constitutional framework in the country, the following recommendations are made:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Recognize greatest challenge to Northern Kenya is poverty and way out is transformational investments e.g. – infrastructure. Causes of wealth or poverty; (1) Environmental factors (2) Historical (3) State Policies (4) Community – play winners or victims – control deficit and need surplus. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>2)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Need to establish National Institute for County Development at KIA or KSMS and training of key staff immediately – locally and abroad. Develop experts as soon as possible.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>3)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Affirmative Development Act be created by Parliament for the region with seed development budget of say Kshs. 50 billion (50% GOK and 50% donors) per year for a duration of 47 years. Leaders should and must lobby for special budget to bring about Big Push public expenditure in the region we are behind by about 70 years.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>4)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>More emphasis on public education, human rights and active and self confident citizens be put – at the lower county levels and development more robust civil societies, professional and entrepreneurs.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>5)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Strong professionals with first class talents, national outlook, integrity and characters are selected for county leadership positions. People who believe in public service, who believe in hard work, who have set values and have vision for their respective counties and for the nation as a whole. It is only then we shall catch up with the world and with the rest of Kenyans and overcome multiple challenges before us. Thus answer KWS’s Director’s assertion that, “Poverty is your choice”.<span> </span>We can overcome poverty trap and it is not part of our DNA.<span> </span>It is never our choice to be poor.</div><div class="MsoListParagraph"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>6)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Association of Northern County Vision (ANC Vision 2036: (25 years agenda) under the umbrella of (MNK & OGLs). Why for example Housing Development Programme is not active in our counties?</div><div class="MsoListParagraph"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span>7)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span>Brand our region – what good thing do we want to be known for and have the competitive advantage in the country?</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-20960383177607401592011-02-19T15:30:00.002+03:002011-02-19T15:34:08.772+03:00YOUTH, LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Discussion presented to Crossing Borders Youth Group International on 2<sup>nd</sup> February 2011 in Nairobi. </span></b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Billow Khalid </span></i></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Introduction </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Different communities describe who youth is in separate ways. In Kenya, youth is any one who is within the age bracket of 18-35 years. Below 18 is seen as a minor, a school going child and much below simply children. In Africa, second largest and second most populous continent, 30 million sq.km with a population of about 1 billion , few people ever reach the honor of being old. About 60% of the population is below 39 years of age. This makes Africa the continent of the youths, the young people. Why are we concerned so much with the welfare and interests of youths? Because we are concerned with the future of humanity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">As the wise person said:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">If you are thinking one year ahead, plant seeds;</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">If you are thinking ten years ahead, plant trees. But if you are thinking a hundred years ahead, educate the youths, the young.</span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Thus, if anyone cares for the future of anyone country or community, he or she must pay keen attention to the development, education and health of the youths and train and prepare them for position of responsibility and leadership at the earliest opportunity. Is this the ease in Africa and how does it compare with Europe, Asia and the U.S.A.? In the past, anything gone badly, society attributed it to God. 'Today, outside natural events like the floods in Australia anything going wrong is attributed to leadership</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Who then is a leader</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">? In school children fiction, it is easy: a leader is anyone who is six feet, six inches tail, well built with fair heavy hair and steady sharp eyes. This, however quickly proves to be an unreliable criterion. Since leadership is relative, it is in the leader's relationship with his group that we look for the signs of leadership.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Leader is a person and leadership is the exercise of the role of a leader. Role of leadership is critical to all animals, humans included. Leadership is generally defined as the ability to influence a group towards the achievement of set goals-tasks - like coming to Kenya from Denmark and back. The leader's thought is guided by mission (goals achievements), safety and well being of the team or group members and last, personal interest like being famous or ambition for material gain.<b> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Qualities of successful leader</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Why is one able to influence a group of people, small or large group? It depends on the source of the influence. It could be brute fear of harm such as robber's gun. It could be need for individual or group survival and need to win and achieve the group's goals. Thus the leader can evolve and for the sake of the task at hand and well being of the group and its unity, the group gives one of them who is best qualified to the position of leadership. Therefore the qualities of successful leader are <b>(1) Competency for the task at hand. (2): ability to listen - people skills (3) personal energy, passion for the responsibilities and character - if we cannot lead ourselves, we cannot lead anyone else - we influence people because people see us as standing on higher ground - "we have been to the mountain before them".</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Increased chances of youth becoming leaders at earliest opportunity.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">First, youths gaining leadership positions are a functions of family environment, personal drive, social and national environment. These factors can be supportive, encouraging and motivating or inhibitive and down right oppressive to the emergence, of youths development. Examples are in Asia and Africa where the education of the youths; particularly the girl’s are being fought viciously on baseless grounds.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Second is the political and social environment. In the African context in Zimbabwe, Egypt,(note revolution there), Libya, Ethiopia, Uganda, unlike in UK, USA, or even Singapore or India, age and social networks are major qualifications for public or private sector senior offices. Majority of African leaders die in office and expect state funeral! The same is true even in the private sector and universities. It is uncommon in African universities to find below 30 year olds holding professorial positions. These have created "standing water" effects. Social and economic environment: suffocating, bad smell, full of mosquitoes and reptiles. There must be flow of leadership, moderate turn-over in order to tap energy, creativity and passion of our young people. We need the older generation for their wisdom, networks, influence, experience and wealth, but they must help young people grow so that "Africa does not vanish from the face of this earth or become swarm of flourishing corruption and decay.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">In order to increase the chances of youths accessing leadership positions in the earliest opportunity anywhere for the purpose of "active citizens, effective states and better changed developed world and overcome limiting barriers on our path, we must observe and practice the following:-</span></div><ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="i"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Personal discipline, care, efficiency - energy: success comes after hard work.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The discipline to have personal goals and achieving them. The discipline to have the best friends, adhere good, healthy lifestyle (not drugs and association with criminals). The discipline to be ambitious, take care of one's parents, God-fearing and work hard. <b>The only place where success comes before work is in the English dictionary.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><ol start="2" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="i"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Take responsibility for one`s actions</span></b></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">99% of all personal failures come from people who have habits of making excuses; the weather, teachers, parents and governments. If you want to create the life of your dreams, then you are going to have to take 100% responsibility for your life as you live. Parents and communities have done their bit by taking the youths to school, bringing them up and loving them. Therefore we must have positive attitude, work hard, have great dreams and take responsibility for our lives.</span></div><ol start="3" style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="i"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Self –believe entrepreneurial attitude and passionate desire to excel –own DNA – and signature of success</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">. </span></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 46.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The world rewards hard work, not an existence. One poet wrote of the man who said to the universe “sir I exist” “however “replied the universe”, “the fact has not created in me any sense of obligation”. There is no sense of obligation for others to help us as the youths. As the Americans say, “we must pull ourselves up by our bootstraps” even though we may be barefooted and have no boots.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Believe we can achieve greatness and for sure we will. “If others have made it, why not us?” Our attitude and mind must work for us instead of against us. Strong, passionate desire produces effort multiplication and hard work. One area youths should target is the field of business entrepreneurship. Today, since 1990- fall of Berlin wall, what is happening is entrepreneurship revolution. Youths, people within the age bracket of 20s to 39 are richer than any time in the history of the world. The founder of face book is an example. In Africa, the trend is the same as in china and Russia. The youths living in Europe as those living in Africa and elsewhere must seek knowledge but more than that opportunities for entrepreneurship. It is the real gateway to financial freedom. Opportunities are common in south Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya and for sure in Europe, America and Asia and even in Australia. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">We should establish linkage between European and American opportunities and Africa markets. Entrepreneurship helps people to grow out of survival, struggling living to thriving, prosperous living style. Entrepreneurship and great leadership are the basis of national development.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Contribution of youths to national development </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">What are development and the triangle of development? Development for the purpose of this discussion is “developing the real income potentialities of all areas of the people and country by using investment to effect those changes and to augment those productive resources which promise to raise real income per person- this increase standard of living and people choices on a continuous basis on the grounds of the law of perpetual optimism of mankind- that children will have better lives than their parents.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The youths must play their part and contribute to good governance, leadership of their respective societies and entrepreneurship as the diagram above indicates.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Conclusion: Africa’s honored place </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">The continent of Africa is a continent of the youths where some 60% of the population is below 40. The youths are the future. Therefore, youths must thrive to access leadership and entrepreneurship in order to contribute to their own development and those of their countries and put “poverty in museums” to quote Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh. Youths must have self discipline, take 100% own responsibilities and have strong self believe and overcome contextual barriers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">If we have to uplift our societies, the youths should be on higher ground. We have to appreciate that the African people are not doomed by the laws of nature to be poor and ever marginalized. Finally, Nelson Mandera said in February 2005 to a gathering of youth people,” Sometimes it falls upon generation to be great. You can be that generation.” History admirers the wise but elevates the brave. The youths must display courage, delay self gratification, have healthy, positive lifestyle and contribute to their own prosperities and those of their communities and country. To paraphrase Chinua Achebe, when the Africa’s moons shine (the youths), even the Continent`s cripples would become hungry for walks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">It is only then; Africa can be assured of an honored place in the world stage. Start leadership and self discipline with yourselves at the individual level and the future of our communities will be assured of prosperity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-19402907732676106372011-02-14T23:28:00.003+03:002011-02-14T23:35:55.499+03:00SOMETIMES I THINK – MAR WAXAA II GELISometimes I think<a href="http://www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com/"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCfRJZCWO9pvxy-ewrIh35KLqL-mg8asQFH6GYtE7o0MPiP4NOd8Yf1UOwVlnOFm4ZNh7qKbZ5O6u4I6AW5XQO_ElbwTVUoQBRzCaAy9y-RHMVBF2y3Ff4BdvuQ0mZ7IMoC7_vT45c7kEG/s200/question-mark-vector.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573645127548915906" border="0" /></a> <p class="MsoNormal">Of the wisdom and unreason</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of my people, </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Who said of wisdom.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">This is earth,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I know not of what is,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And said of unreason,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Best of places are one’s brethren’s.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of the paradoxes</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of creation of humankind,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Some with great good</p> <p class="MsoNormal">and others with infinite evil.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Since luck won’t wink</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To me anymore,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Bare fates gore</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And live stinks.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of those who stand on the brink</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of an ocean cliff’s top,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And simply hop.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dine and drink</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Since I cannot fight,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">So live and forget</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Because life is a fate.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">From all temptation shrink,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And walk into Almighty’s</p> <p class="MsoNormal">House of worship.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of this colour of ink,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Whose brethren</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Were held in cages.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of those whitish pink</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Whoever tortured my widowed mothers,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And ever butchered</p> <p class="MsoNormal">My orphaned siblings.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I better slink</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To a distance land</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Where my face is unknown,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And be alone in recluse</p> <p class="MsoNormal">My talents use.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To strive and clink</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And sheer with those</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Who thought and choose,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Though rather a stray</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To go their own way.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of the leopards of mink</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Whose worth a love </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Is naught an inch,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Till the trappers knife</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Does their value rich</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To array the wife</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Of a man so rich.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Heed not nor blink</p> <p class="MsoNormal">My dear, dear</p> <p class="MsoNormal">But boldly steer</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Because that Blair</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I hear is not there,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And their glare</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I fear is neither their.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Never to get fright,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Give up the fight</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Delight and plight.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes I think</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And I cannot think any further,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Because I am mixed up</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And I simply give up.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com/"><span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"><span class="f"><cite><b>billow khalid</b></cite></span></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-78091360514480808442010-08-21T13:46:00.005+03:002010-08-21T14:06:49.867+03:00Probe causes of poor national exam results in North Eastern Province<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">Saturday Nation</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">Posted Wednesday, July 21 2010 at 17:14<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">It is true that schools from North Eastern Province are depressingly low performers in national examinations, both at Standard Eight and Form Four level.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">The region’s top two candidates in last year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exam results, as usual, were not even in the top 1,000 students nationally. And of the 129 top schools countrywide, none were from this province.</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">Recently, Education minister, Prof Sam Ongeri, and Education Secretary, Prof George Godia, were on a one-week tour of the area. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">They were reportedly told of the causes of the recurrent poor examination performance as a poor reading culture, early marriages (particularly among girls), cheating in examinations and shortages of education officers to enforce quality (DN, July 19).</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">To help improve the situation, the Nation Media Group and Safaricom Foundation are sponsoring the “Newspapers in Education” programme, which is aimed at creating interests in reading at young age. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">The programme covers districts in Garissa and Wajir. Hopefully, it will be extended to Mandera, where learners are even more disadvantaged.</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">However, I strongly believe that no one single reason out of the four cited to the minister sufficiently explain the causes of the unsatisfactory performance of the students from this part of the country.</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">The poor reading culture is an outcome of complex social, economic and environmental issues. These are not unique to North Eastern Province.</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">Problems of shortages of education officers, early marriages among girls and cheating in examinations have not been proven to have a higher occurrence rate in this region than the national average.</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">For example, only a small percentage of last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education candidates were reported to have cheated. Few of these were from this province.</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">The schools in North Eastern Province more resources in addition to the newspaper project in order to raise education standards and catch up with the rest of the country.</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">The Ministry of Education should research on the problems affecting this area and come up with effective policies to address them. We want our candidates in the top 50 nationally.</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19.2pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri">BILLOW KHALID, Wajir</span></i><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia', 'serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-76771519958245863812008-09-05T20:05:00.004+03:002008-09-06T16:06:56.644+03:00NEP’s great expectations from the grand coalition Government<a href="http://billowkhalid.blogspot.com/"></a><span style="font-size:180%;">W</span>e thank God; the country is now safely recovered from the edge of the precipice of self-destruction, following the ferocious eruptions of violence that were ignited by the disputed results of the presidential elections. In spite of over two months of terrible national crisis that caused 1,200 deaths, economic nightmare for many and displaced 350,000 people, at last good reason, international persuasions and patriotism of the principal leaders of both sides have carried the day, enabling to the speedy enactment by parliament of two important legislations and formation of grand coalition Government with a prime minister.<br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242585714776209234" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSoG9WcxGVshj2uE8lN9SfXAdu1VludBU9AKxzz_QQynKlN3By5hw_iXkOaTctV5AFI40fQQKUoXd-K8NI4Lod2X0Ln3K3_5QEL711aB7DruUrflgOm0RehPFQexsOS3TUYiC2y4990vCZ/s320/north+eastern.jpg" border="0" />The people’s expectations are high. The challenges are daunting. But the opportunities for turning the country to a new course of prosperity are many. Today, all Kenyans and their leaders are on the same side. It is not hard, therefore, to propel the nation to a new level of peace and social equity and further restore the country’s brand image of being jewel of Africa-Kenya hakuna matata.<br /><br />The residents of North-Eastern Province , however, have special, specific expectations from this historic grand coalition Government. The region, formerly known as Northern Frontier District-NFD, consisting of upper Eastern and North Eastern Province has had bitter history of economic marginalization, political exclusion and injustice such as the Wagalla massacre, ethnic differentiation and threat of economic exploitation at the hands of a sedentary and increasingly centralized state. The region further suffers from harsh climate and geographical isolation from the main national economic and social streams. During the past four decades the formal position has been, so long as the city, agricultural commercial lands, and the communication network to the outside world were unaffected, the nation could get by without much ado about the economic plight of the peripheral regions and their inhabitants. That must now change.<br /><br />The Northern region which is about a half of the country, borders the world’s poorest region, Ethiopia and Somalia, is the least developed province and is unenviable part of what the MP for Nyatike, Mr.Omondi Anyanga described as “ a Kenya that Kenya forgot” about since the days of pre-independence. Progress has been made since 60’s.But more needs to be done in order to develop fullest the potentials of every inch of our land and the talent of every one of our citizens. The basis of the high expectations of the people here arises from the campaign promises made by all the presidential candidates who are luckily, today the cabin crews of the nation’s political and economic destiny. We expect President Mwai Kibaki, the Vice President and the Prime Minister to be very dependable crews of affairs of state.<br /><br />The pledges of all the three parties, ODM, PNU and ODM-K for the region included the bringing about of balanced regional development, creation of special ministry for the recovery and development of NEP. They also promised major capital outlay for roads network, a kind of Marshall Plan, education, water, health, agriculture, livestock, issue of ID cards and proportional representation in senior government appointments such as in the cabinet. It is not hard to discharge these pledges. It would only require sincerity from our leaders since great political pledges are long term philosophical commitments and do not end like a midnight rainfall or a word casually spoken. We hope this time round, we would have many promises made to the residents of NEP fulfilled.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1593546605230895161.post-42477201751670064962008-09-05T19:40:00.003+03:002008-09-06T16:11:21.186+03:00Why Museveni is best placed to mediate between PNU and ODM<a href="http://billowkhalid.blogspot.com/"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0c1rpn5vlIu72GM2kbE1Y0a3aWtEHUEo4HqigTXfOkc1BdhzQRN1UGffei_VjKC_OLoJHbrFuqvPnDFLAFJPLSqfNeSg1IDoorF_HKOdCLvnBB7m5P2WhxPIn5d0pEqRNtdhWqYQHx-N/s1600-h/Museveni.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242894831633333458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0c1rpn5vlIu72GM2kbE1Y0a3aWtEHUEo4HqigTXfOkc1BdhzQRN1UGffei_VjKC_OLoJHbrFuqvPnDFLAFJPLSqfNeSg1IDoorF_HKOdCLvnBB7m5P2WhxPIn5d0pEqRNtdhWqYQHx-N/s320/Museveni.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-size:180%;">T</span>he future of our great country is at a great risk. The entire nation is at the edge of a precipice since Sunday, 30 December when the chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK), Mr. Samuel Kivuitu declared the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki the winner of the Presidential election under hotly contested circumstances.<br /><br />The conflict between the two protagonists, Party of National Unity of Hon Mwai Kibaki and Orange Democratic Movement of Hon Raila Odinga is very destructive and all consuming. Our people are dying and some three hundred thousand people have already been displaced. The economy of Kenya is facing a meltdown and some half a million workers have since lost their jobs in all sectors. This has impacted negatively on all the countries of the region, more so on Uganda , Rwanda , Burundi and Somalia .<br /><br />It is in this context that President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, former UN chief, Mr.Kofi Annan and other eminent persons hurriedly jetted into our country to help us negotiate and save our own country. It is therefore wrong and show of lack of appreciation for Mr. Muriithi M’moitha to dismiss President Museveni’s mediation efforts as “a bad taste in our mouths” (Std, Jan, 23, 2008 ).<br /><br />President Museveni is best placed to mediate between our leaders. He is a neighbor, seasoned, elder statesman who is the chairman of the East Africa Community and one who has direct interest in the political and social stability of Kenya . The fate of our country is in our own hands. President Kibaki and Hon Raila and their close followers should subject themselves to a lot of introspection and declare “we agree to any mediation because Kenya is too beautiful and strategic for a civil war”. Let us all help in any way possible to restore our nation’s pride and prestige among community of nations.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Please add comments to my articles www.billowkhalid.blogspot.com and give me your opinion.</div>Billow Khalidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15752539768193885037noreply@blogger.com0