HUSTLER NATION; Two years later
A vendor with Kenyan shilling banknotes in Nairobi.Photographer: Patrick Meinhardt/Bloomberg More than two years after the inauguration of president William Ruto as Kenya's fifth commander in chief and coming to power of the Kenya Kwanza Government, Kenya has experienced moments of significant social, economic and political transformation. It is important to underscore the strides made by the government in the preceding two years towards increasing efficiency in service delivery to its citizenry. However, the government has come under sharp criticism for its immense failure to oversee the economic emancipation of the country under the Bottom Up Economic model and live up to numerous other campaign promises. In this article I delve into a fact finding mission of whether or not the Kenya Kwanza government has put Kenya first in its policies two years later. One of the major leitmotifs of the Kenya Kwanza coalition campaign trail message was the Bottom Up Economic model. The proponent...