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Dennis,
These are the questions that will shape our future.  In the Vision 2030,
the Political pillars requires issue based politics.  These are the issues
we want our political leaders must address.  We also must shape up in
terms of having decisions made by the leaders implementable.

For example, in the 1970's and 1980's, the Districts of Kiambu, Muranga,
Kisii, Nyeri, Meru, Maragori and greater western Kenya including the parts
of the Rift Valley produced about 30 bags per an acre.  These were the
most productive parts of this country. Today except for the Rift Valley,
most of these districts hardly produce 5 bags of maize per an acre.  Yet
at the same time population has trebled.  At independence our population
was 7 million.  Britain's population was 53 million.  Today while our
population is approaching 40 million, Britain's is 61 million.

The reasons for declining productivity is subdivision of land and
unplanned families.  These are issues that Government alone cannot effect.
 A family whose only asset is a two acre land has 12 children.  When you
ask why commit such suicide.  Often the answer is children belong to God. 
This is wrong because God only helps those who can help themselves.

What I am trying to say here is that answers to our problems lie with us. 
We must begin to plan and make sense out of it.  Then hold our leaders
accountable to such issues as economic development.  In our sector,
infrastructure is a head of applications and content.  We are losing our
competitive adge to version 0 culture.  We must make it easier for real
development of our people to take place.

Regards


Ndemo.







> BTW, Dr. Ndemo's official car is a mild consuming VW Passat and not a
> Mercedes.
>
> I would like to raise some issues which might deviate from the main list
> content.
>
> My Economics for Engineers class taught me this as a basic. International
> trade is a result of the factors of production: Countries export what they
> can produce efficiently and import what they cant produce efficiently but
> is
> produced efficiently by other countries. Kenya produces maize with lesser
> resources than Japan would (theoretically) while Japan produces cars at
> lesser resources than Kenya would.
>
> *Electricity: *Why do we use diesel to produce electricity, talk about
> Nuclear while Geothermal potential in the country is yet to be fully
> exploited?
> *Petroleum: *Why don't we let oil marketers import their own oil, rather
> than but from a bid winner? Why must oil be processed at a very inefficent
> refinery with high costs while we can import refined oil at cheaper costs?
> *Sugar: *Why does our sugar cost twice as much as the sugar from our
> COMESA
> neighbours? Shall we be able to protect our sugar industry for long from
> cheaper imports?
> *Coffee: *Why is our coffee processed outside the country? Is it true that
> a
> farmer willing to process his own coffee must first auction it at the
> Nairobi auction where he must be the highest bidder? Do the jobless in
> Kiambu County know that hand roasted coffee is sold at a premium?
> *Coconut Milk*: Why is this imported from Indonesia while the cost
> watches?
> *Manual vs Mechanised labour: *Does this need debate? refer to
> http://the-star.co.ke/business/andrea-bohnstedt/22002-labour-activists-keeping-kenya-port-inefficient
>
> End of Rant:
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