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authority and a capacity to keep a secret. As we have stated in other publications the Kenyan is not necessarily a strange and inherently corrupt person as the western world would like to depict us and we are certainly not playing in the league of Americans, Europeans, Chinese and the Indians when it comes to mega So how have we man- aged to get this far driving on empty? That is the message that must get to all Kenyans to snap out of the stupor and real- ize that we have mort- gaged our future to live an unrealistic life- style today which is based on ferociously sharing bread that we don’t have and do not care to bake! corruption since theirs is a super league mortgaged our future to live an unrealistic affair. lifestyle today which is based on ferociously sharing bread that we don’t have and do not What they do have and we don’t is care to bake! a sense of shame and the unwritten code of conduct that has fostered an China and India closed their borders for a understanding that you are corrupt at while to get their act together and they have your own risk and if you are caught you succeeded and the crippling debt that now face the music alone and immediately. weighs on the shoulder of every Kenyan is the direct result of borrowing to keep China has gone a step further by making up with an idea of prosperity more in the economic crimes a capital offence while ‘dream format’ without being prosperous in the rest of the areas you are expected whatsoever in deed. to resign forthwith and face the court process and be ineligible to hold public We need to realize that the bread sharing office from that time onwards. strategy does not work and we start to create bakers and that may mean we go back Kenyans have perfected the art of sharing to a referendum and decide that we need to bread that they do not have and the first create institutions in our constitution that thing we need to learn is that you can focus on meaningful productivity not blind only share bread that you have. To get the consumption. Do not forget you have the bread one needs to invest in baking it and vote! that is where we get our bread sharing culture on a completely wrong trajectory. The last word is that we need to instill in our people the understanding that those that we elect or appoint into office need to have a baking ability and that is only how the institutions that we have put in place will make sense. So how have we managed to get this far driving on empty? That is the message that must get to all Kenyans to snap out of the stupor and realize that we have This cover piece is extracted from the article that traditionally sits on the Last Word Column. Being the 74th filing since inception (having missed only once when Kenol/ Kobil got a ROR courtesy of Evans Kinyua) we celebrate the effort by using the current article as a cover theme. For feedback or any more discourse please drop us a line at: [email protected].