We stopped by the Blankets and Wine Festival the other day and asked the people we met there what they would do if they were president for a day. Check out the surprising and mildly depressing result in the video below:
Kuweni Serious!
Fighting the EVIL powers of apathy!
agreed!!!
but i guess we have a chance to see the govt we want..we have the power to put the people we want in government and parliament: JUST DON’T VOTE FOR THE SAME IDIOTS!!!!
we will hopefully exercise this power next year.
we do need a new MEANINGFUL government.
woooossssaaaa!!!
i like the way everyone said: “I would fire everyone”
I especially like the way the chic in the red top said (in that Kenyan Twangy way) – “I would SUCK everyone”
I know she meant SACK but man, oh man! I had formed a mental picture of a really big vaccum, or several billion Octopuses coming to her aid.
But yes, I would FIRE everyone too!
very nice blog, great vid
I agree, there needs to be a major change in leadership, priorities, attitudes, and values in government, from our most powerful leaders and all the way down to frontline civil servants. We need leaders and civil servants who are accountable, and who are willing to change how business is done.
But Kenya’s issues are not produced by Kenyans alone. Influence from donor countries, international financial institutions and international NGOs have also undermined the ability of government sectors to provide adequate services to our population. Case in point: our underfunded public health care system. Millions of dollars of donor aid is poured into disease specific vertical programming, within and outside of the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) budget. Very little is earmarked for more broad based (horizontal) health system strengthening. And Kenya’s MOH budget is tiny! How can the MOH improve our public health system with meager funds, while donors set their own priorities that continue to focus on specific diseases, rather than the improvement our weak health care system, and the strengthening of our primary health care system? How can the underfunded MOH compete with NGO’s whose budgets are larger than the MOH’s, and the private health care sector who are willing to pay health care professionals more, thus contributing to the brain drain?
The truth is our issues are a lot more complicated than just crappy leadership, poor service delivery, and ridiculous levels of corruption – though these problems are very real and are major challenges that Kenyans deal with everyday.
Where does one begin??