Comments for Kuweni Serious! http://www.kuweniserious.org Fighting the EVIL powers of apathy! Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on If I Were President for a Day… by Yvette http://www.kuweniserious.org/2011/10/president-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-4367 Yvette Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:35:17 +0000 http://www.kuweniserious.org/?p=357#comment-4367 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?? 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??

]]> Comment on What Does A Perfect Kenya Look Like? by rose alulu http://www.kuweniserious.org/2010/10/what-does-a-perfect-kenya-look-like/comment-page-1/#comment-4306 rose alulu Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:56:43 +0000 http://www.kuweniserious.org/?p=274#comment-4306 a perfect kenya is one that is free from coruption,one that foreign investors give a chance to the locals to get an oppotunity to workwith them. a kenya that every money spent by the government is able to be accounted for, that is my perfect kenya. a perfect kenya is one that is free from coruption,one that foreign investors give a chance to the locals to get an oppotunity to workwith them. a kenya that every money spent by the government is able to be accounted for, that is my perfect kenya.

]]> Comment on by vmwadime http://www.kuweniserious.org/2011/11/386/comment-page-1/#comment-4134 vmwadime Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:53:17 +0000 http://www.kuweniserious.org/?p=386#comment-4134 Our selective amnesia, lack of attention to detail and perpetual crisis/scandal mode will cost us. Failed states do not happen as an event, it is a gradual process of moral, socio-economic decay and citizen apathy. Remember that if you see something wrong and you dont correct it, you have just set a new standard. This beautiful country deserves more from us, our future generations deserve better...... Our selective amnesia, lack of attention to detail and perpetual crisis/scandal mode will cost us. Failed states do not happen as an event, it is a gradual process of moral, socio-economic decay and citizen apathy. Remember that if you see something wrong and you dont correct it, you have just set a new standard. This beautiful country deserves more from us, our future generations deserve better……

]]> Comment on by kiiru http://www.kuweniserious.org/2011/11/386/comment-page-1/#comment-4131 kiiru Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:39:54 +0000 http://www.kuweniserious.org/?p=386#comment-4131 We have become the laughing stock of our neighboring countries. While we are busy celebrating thiefs and war-mangors, they have been busy discovering oil in Uganda, gold in Tanzania and our visitors finding a safe haven in Zanzibar. From the outside looking in, its easy to understand the sentiment most in diaspora hold, that there is nothing to make them come back home. But realy, the only people who can us is US, the Red,Black,Green and White of our national flag hve lost their hue, the national anthem has lost its lustre and we are at threat of being thrown into chaos unless we rise up and say, WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH! We have become the laughing stock of our neighboring countries. While we are busy celebrating thiefs and war-mangors, they have been busy discovering oil in Uganda, gold in Tanzania and our visitors finding a safe haven in Zanzibar. From the outside looking in, its easy to understand the sentiment most in diaspora hold, that there is nothing to make them come back home. But realy, the only people who can us is US, the Red,Black,Green and White of our national flag hve lost their hue, the national anthem has lost its lustre and we are at threat of being thrown into chaos unless we rise up and say, WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!

]]> Comment on by mercy mukoya http://www.kuweniserious.org/2011/11/386/comment-page-1/#comment-4130 mercy mukoya Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:21:48 +0000 http://www.kuweniserious.org/?p=386#comment-4130 that's the gospel right there.we are being hoodwinked and we don't even seem to have an iota of realisation. when something happens they quickly cover it up by digging somethoing else so we forget. we really need to make noise about the important things not just about salaries or road bumps that’s the gospel right there.we are being hoodwinked and we don’t even seem to have an iota of realisation. when something happens they quickly cover it up by digging somethoing else so we forget. we really need to make noise about the important things not just about salaries or road bumps

]]> Comment on If I Were President for a Day… by xandi http://www.kuweniserious.org/2011/10/president-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-4020 xandi Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:16:01 +0000 http://www.kuweniserious.org/?p=357#comment-4020 very nice blog, great vid :D very nice blog, great vid :D

]]> Comment on “Blood Is Not Going To Clean Bloodstains” by Boaz http://www.kuweniserious.org/2010/01/bloodstains/comment-page-1/#comment-3936 Boaz Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:57:56 +0000 http://www.kuweniserious.org/?p=72#comment-3936 Someone shud show this video in parliament. Very encouraging Njoki;) Someone shud show this video in parliament. Very encouraging Njoki;)

]]> Comment on If I Were President for a Day… by Njeri http://www.kuweniserious.org/2011/10/president-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-3802 Njeri Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:39:10 +0000 http://www.kuweniserious.org/?p=357#comment-3802 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! :) 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! :)

]]> Comment on If I Were President for a Day… by wachira muthui http://www.kuweniserious.org/2011/10/president-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-3788 wachira muthui Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:41:29 +0000 http://www.kuweniserious.org/?p=357#comment-3788 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!!! 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!!!

]]> Comment on Usinibore! by harleymc http://www.kuweniserious.org/2009/10/usinibore/comment-page-1/#comment-3382 harleymc Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:41:04 +0000 http://www.kuweniserious.org/?p=8#comment-3382 Great track. Che organised with others to fight oppression, seems very appropriate in this context. Great track.
Che organised with others to fight oppression, seems very appropriate in this context.

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