Tiiga Waana
Elder Lister
Over the years Kenya could well have built a Graduate Level pool of around 5 million individuals.
I guesstimate that those who have a Diploma or a College Certificate could be over 10 million strong.
Combined, that’s a grand total of around 15 million talented, skilled and highly potential individuals.
These are our potential Innovators, Captains of Industries, Drivers of our Economy and Guardians of our Environment.
This segment of our population is around a quarter of our citizenly.
Now, remember this very fundamental and undeniable fact: Kenyan Universities are notorious for producing and moulding very good and able Graduates who when properly guided make impacts all over the world.
This is by no means an exerggeration but a veritable and candid point. We have top-notch Doctors, Economists, Engineers, Bureaucrats and Jurists working abroad at the highest echelons of their industry.
Now, my humble question is, how could such a class of people be so excited and mesmerised by Ksh 500 hasora fund?
Or could it be that their voices of reason and logic were drowned out by the noises of the other three quarters of our population?
Which reminds me that not so long ago, some Fellows here amongst us were spellbound and enchanted by wheelbarrows. They shouted themselves hoarse on how the one wheel contraption would change the fortunes of our Country.
Strange, isn’t it, that nobody mentions this humble contrivance these days. I think they have even erased it from their flag and logo!
And this leads us swiftly albeit bumpy to our conclusion.
The fact is that we were all sold lies and we swallowed them hook, line and sinker. The 800 Unga and the 500 fund is just but a pipe-dream.
Just like the wheelbarrows went the way of the Dodo, the hasora fund will have a very short and disappointing lifespan followed by a sure demise very shortly.
I guesstimate that those who have a Diploma or a College Certificate could be over 10 million strong.
Combined, that’s a grand total of around 15 million talented, skilled and highly potential individuals.
These are our potential Innovators, Captains of Industries, Drivers of our Economy and Guardians of our Environment.
This segment of our population is around a quarter of our citizenly.
Now, remember this very fundamental and undeniable fact: Kenyan Universities are notorious for producing and moulding very good and able Graduates who when properly guided make impacts all over the world.
This is by no means an exerggeration but a veritable and candid point. We have top-notch Doctors, Economists, Engineers, Bureaucrats and Jurists working abroad at the highest echelons of their industry.
Now, my humble question is, how could such a class of people be so excited and mesmerised by Ksh 500 hasora fund?
Or could it be that their voices of reason and logic were drowned out by the noises of the other three quarters of our population?
Which reminds me that not so long ago, some Fellows here amongst us were spellbound and enchanted by wheelbarrows. They shouted themselves hoarse on how the one wheel contraption would change the fortunes of our Country.
Strange, isn’t it, that nobody mentions this humble contrivance these days. I think they have even erased it from their flag and logo!
And this leads us swiftly albeit bumpy to our conclusion.
The fact is that we were all sold lies and we swallowed them hook, line and sinker. The 800 Unga and the 500 fund is just but a pipe-dream.
Just like the wheelbarrows went the way of the Dodo, the hasora fund will have a very short and disappointing lifespan followed by a sure demise very shortly.
