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Kenya's greatest development challenge is the lack of policy continuity across successive governments.[ Courtesy]
Governor of Kisumu, Anyang’ Nyong’o, and economist Hiroyuki Hino did not present President William Ruto with a 30-40-year strategy that includes the creation of a “First World Nation.” What they presented is called an experiment in physics.
The philosopher Ibn Khaldun noted during his life over 700 years ago that states fail because of the conflict of slow-moving bureaucratic processes and fast-moving historical events, and Kenya is finding itself in the same situation now. By this time point, the Vision 2030 strategy must be accomplished. The proposal made by Nyong’o and Hino, which is aimed at agricultural advancements, industrialisation aimed at exports, and a knowledge economy based on AI technology, shows good progress in terms of high ambitions. However, good ambitions don’t pay off unless there is a solid foundation for them.
The problem is that Kenya has no problem with the blueprint but a continuity problem.
