THE PRESS STATEMENT THE LIES THAT JUBILEE TELLS When the Jubilee Coalition took over power it promised Kenyans many things it has not fulfilled one year after being in office. Lap tops for school children: nothing. Digitalized government: nothing. Free maternity care for expecting mothers: grossly underfunded. A place to feel at home in Kenya: we now live under perpetual insecurity. A unified and prosperous nation: divisive politics and the politics of exclusion continue. What is even more worrying is that Kenya is becoming more and more isolated from the international community of nations. Our development partners have been humiliated by a stance in international relations laced with arrogance and nationalistic jingoism which brings with it self -inflicted wounds and missed opportunities in development in Kenyas global interests. Sooner rather than later, this politics of isolation will begin hurting our people directly particularly in the social sectors: health, education and water provision. Development partners who have worked with us in these sectors are pulling out due to lack of positive engagement by the Jubilee leaders. ODM believes in constructive engagement with all our development partners rather than the isolationist diplomacy of Jubilee. It is in the face of this rapid decline in effective leadership that we decided to delve deep into the lies that Jubilee has been telling Kenyans about pursuing their manifesto so that Kenyans can wake up to the serious situation we are facing with the current regime. As a watchdog government in waiting our responsibility is to analyze, criticize, enlighten, expose, shed light, warn of dangers ahead and show the way to a better and CORDED Kenya. Having ascended to power through a controversial Supreme Court decision, and knowing full well that the IEBC did a hopeless job in managing the last elections, Jubilee should have moved fast to address radical reforms in the elections body. It has not. Instead it is now engaged in maneuvers to engage the discredited personnel in that elections body for the further rigging of future elections. Just more problems for our nation. Our coalition has called for a radical transformation of the IEBC and a truly independent body to manage the next elections. The projects that Jubilee keeps on touting as their successes are actually Vision 2030 projects that they have inherited from both the NARC and the Grand Coalition government. These are long term infrastructure projects whose fruition is rightly being realized now. The problem is that, due to greed and kickbacks, Jubilee has now loaded these projects with debt burdens that will weigh heavily and unfairly on future generations. We see this in the SGR project as well as the energy sector where kickbacks inform board room wars then escalate the cost of projects. Because the governing coalition is desperate to be seen to be performing, Jubilee has rushed certain projects without feasibility studies that would show real cost, viability, sustainability, environmental impact and even necessity. Such projects exist in agriculture, energy, security and education sectors. Apart from Agriculture where Jubilee has hijacked grand coalition programs, abandoned its promises or pursued them at astronomical costs, failure and campaign of lies is probably greatest in Energy sector. Failure in this sector spells doom for the countrys growth plan because Energy is expected to drive change. Prospects for this sector have dwindled as cost of connections especially in rural areas has more than doubled. The government is quoting a lower figure as the cost of connection while the reality on the ground is different. There is a standoff and there have been no connections for past one year and none of the energy in sector institutions has had even a CEO in the last one year. What is worse is Jubilees killing of the national institutions set up by NARC to steer Vision 2030. These are the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) and the Secretariat for Vision 2030. No doubt the politics of opaqueness requires that such institutions die. More worrying to us is the creeping authoritarianism coming back to the center stage of Kenyan politics at a time when we should be expanding democratic governance and strengthening devolution. In implementing Article 17 of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru should have presented to the Senate Committee on Devolution a government Sessional Paper on the restructuring of the Provincial Administration to accord with devolution and not to impose new structures of the old system by fiat from above. Such a paper would then have been debated in Parliament. This has not happened and an unnecessary crisis has now been manufactured by Jubilee. We invite you to read and discuss our detailed score card on how Jubilee is misgoverning Kenyans and our proposals on what need to be done in agriculture, land, energy, other infrastructure, education, health, industry and governance in general. Sen. (Prof.) P. Anyang Nyongo. Ag. Party Leader May 21, 2014
Posted on: Wed, 21 May 2014 09:45:12 +0000
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