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Corruption biggest impediment to President's development vision

President William Ruto presides over the Gold Award presentation at State House, Nairobi on January 21, 2026. [PCS]

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” This quote is attributed to the longest serving First Lady of the United States of America, Eleanor Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt was the wife of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 

Mrs Roosevelt’s quote can be predicated on two presuppositions. One is that the future we desire must be planned in the present time and space. Two, people who lack dreams, lack a future. No wonder then that the holy Bible puts emphasis on the centrality of vision and dreams.

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