By Joshua Odongo Onono “Lost Public confidence towards the Jubilee administration”. “Leadership is solving problems”. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership,” Colin Powell. Public confidence towards the “Jubilee administration”, government organs and institutions is slowly diminishing and pegging this statement to the unfolding events after President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in on March 4th General Election clearly confirms this as a fact and not mere speculations. The executive: The executive has had its equal share of the lost public confidence and this is evidenced during the cabinet secretaries nominations prior to parliamentary approval. It was clear that the president and his deputy weren’t ready with the list of cabinet secretaries as it took longer to finally name the complete list and it is rumoured that two to four cabinet slots are yet to be filled. The president broke his promise when he promised Kenyans that he will include all his competitors in his government as a way of healing and moving this country forward and instead he turned into a tribal president and much of the appointments benefited two communities if not one. The presidents level of weakness came to light with Mps threatening to slash off budgetary allocation to various sectors of the economy and the president was seen pleading with the MPs to work first before they could be given any increment and this special treatment was contrary to the treatment that was given to the striking teachers who were threatened with sacks if they didn’t report to work by the Cabinet secretary in charge of Education which made most Kenyans lose confidence in the affairs of the government in tackling both instances. The idea of appointing someone with no security background to head the interior ministry was clearly confirmed during the Westgate mall incident when General Karangi was seen in camera loudly whispered instructions to the interior cabinet secretary, the cabinet secretary went on to give several contradicting statements on statistics that left the public confused. Public confidence was further lost when there were allegations of of security personnel looting at the expense of protecting the premise. The cabinet secretary together with our security organs failed in coordinating and harmonizing activities during the westgate Mall incident. This was clear when there was a standoff or rather stalemate between the Kenya Defence forces and the police that led to prolonged rescue mission and the death of a police officer in friendly fire. Several instances of grenade attacks at Gikomba market and along Thika road in Nairobi has added oil to the already burning fire of lost public confidence. The alledged Sacking of Mr Rugut through Sms by the Cabinet secretary of Devolution Ann Waiguru sparked a hot debate amongst the ruling coalition,the opposition and Kenyans at large that led to an inconsistent motion in parliament that was geared towards an impeachment proposal. The concluded Government-Safaricom security deal that involves installation of CCTV cameras in all major cities in Kenya created more confusion as Kenyans questioned the legality of the deal that the president and his Cabinet secretary for IT Matiangi defended so passionately hence public confidence lost. The recent demolition of houses in South B that led to serious exchange of words between the Senator of Nairobi Sonko,the Cabinet secretary for Agriculture with subsequent call made to the president who was not aware of the ongoing demolition clearly exposed the confusion and lack of coordination within the executive leading to lost public confidence. The recent Standard gauge railway has been a dark cloud hanging on the heads of Kenyans demanding answers on how the Government to government single source tendering was realized and who were involved.This was followed by the controversial payment of the Anglo-leasing beneficiaries that led to more frustrations amongst Kenyans. The executive has been seen in the eyes of the public as a machinery that either delays or frustrates the full implementation of the constitution, fuels ethnic imbalances on appointments, talks too much and does very little. The Judiciary: The institution has lost public confidence and all this begun after the courts threw away the petition tabled by the Cord coalition on the presidential results. To rub more salt on the wound everything seems to be falling apart when top officials in the judiciary undermined one another in a power struggle as evidenced in events that led to Sholleis case. To Read more visit http://www.kenya-today.com/news/joshua-odongo-onono-top-10-jubilee-alliance-shocking-failures-railas-national-dialogue-will-solve
By Strive Masiyiwa A few weeks ago I went to the doctor. I will tell you what he said about my health at the end, but first read this: Twenty years ago, I arranged to meet a well-known British international businessman who invested a lot in Africa at the time. We agreed to meet for dinner at a leading hotel in London. After a good meeting, we started to walk out of the restaurant when he suddenly collapsed in the lobby. There was total pandemonium as they rushed to get medical assistance. Being London, an ambulance arrived in minutes. I jumped in the back with him as paramedics wrestled to keep him alive. He had had a heart attack and had to have triple bypass heart surgery. Sadly he died a few weeks later. He hadn't been sick and his sudden death surprised everyone. And yet as I reflected on it, and later discussed it with a doctor friend who knew him, I realized he was very laid back about his health despite having a hectic business life. Even during our dinner...
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