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It was too easy to dismiss President William Ruto’s invitation to help him shape the country’s future through a proposed Vision 2060 blueprint as too little, too late, last week. While this initiative may not be the pathway to Singapore, the declaration does offer another opportunity for one more KenyaTuitakayo reflection.
The President’s 30 July national address sketched his vision for a long-range development framework for prosperity, open and accountable governance and constitutionalism built on national dialogue and consensus.
One week later, the presidential address has failed to generate any significant traction from civic, business, religious, political, or diplomatic leaders. Some described his announcement as being equivalent to an absentee parent planning another child before paying school fees for the one already at home.
Vision 2030 and the Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat were significantly downgraded in favour of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors after the Kenya Kwanza administration assumed power in 2022. It is curious that Ruto has turned to a team of exclusively male, elderly and highly respectable members of the former Kibaki-Odinga administration for inspiration rather than the hustler economists who helped shape his rise. Perhaps another gift of the broad-based alliance?
