Politicising transformation effort is act of sabotage

Perhaps not a very wise thing to do but I can now confess: When at his second inauguration, President Kenyatta announced the Big Four as the key focus of his second term in office, my heart sank. For sure, though there were many who immediately joined in congratulating the President for a great vision, in my heart joy escaped and excitement became difficult to conjure up. This was not because I at any moment considered the four issues non-strategic or unimportant – far from it! I was and still am in perfect agreement with each of the four items as critical for the strategic regional and global positioning of our nation. However, it requires no rocket science to appreciate that no matter what lofty dreams we may possess; no matter how disciplined and committed we may be; and irrespective of the passion with which we may pursue our national agenda, we are headed nowhere unless the moral foundation of our dream is solid.

Ours is a nation where almost every new idea, new laws, or new projects readily become new avenues for looting. It is the sole reason our nation has been tottering on the brink of collapse. It was therefore difficult to genuinely celebrate the Big Four agenda as a strategy for national development without an accompanying strategy for fighting the twin ills of corruption and negative ethnicity. It was clear that unless something drastic happened to alter our national culture, the Big Four were only going to open another big four avenues for mega corruption.