President William Ruto is right about the Finance Bill, 2023.
His success record on wealth creation and never missing a vote is a sure sign that he knows what he is doing.
Ruto is the champion of social good and the landlord who wants to make other Kenyans landlords.
This is notable from the Hustler Fund that is a tool for engineering financial inclusion to now tackling the shameful national housing eyesore.
His campaign and his government shaped towards empowering the least at the bottom of the pyramid indeed is a radical departure from the traditions of forming governments for the mortal lords to be pampered and overfed.
The President has indicated that the new dawn will take work and sacrifice, and we have to make tough choices.
Either we build our nation or we surrender to the fate of neocolonialists, or foreign debtors.
The Bill should, therefore, be seen as the cost that patriots will have to pay for building our nation afresh. There’s a cost to building a nation that was shred apart by neocolonialists and imperialists.
How will we relieve ourselves from the yoke of poverty and control by external forces who currently own the nation from debt if we don’t take back and own the funding and building mechanisms. There’s never any self rule if you are not funding your own life.
It’s a tragedy that after 60 years of self rule we borrow everything, including bread.
What a pity that after 60 years of independence Kenya holds a reputation of having the largest slums in the world, with a population of more than 90 per cent not owning home owners, and neither do they qualify for mortgages.
The question is who is going to pay for our debts? Who is going to build houses for us? Who is going to pay for the education of our children? Who is going to fund for the universal health care? It has to be us.
Should we resign to the fate and dictates of lenders, to the two per cent autocratic force that is part of state capture?
How do we achieve financial inclusion and independence of every Kenyan if we don’t think of plugging our own money and build a national treasure for the common good of every child, woman and man.
Prosperity and posterity of nations takes work to advance.
Isreal was strengthened by the kibbutz system. A kibbutz is a collective settlement that is unique to Israel, and is based on the Marxist principle of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
The kibbutzim was a revolutionary idea of a voluntary society in which people live in accordance with a specific social contract, based on egalitarian and communal principles in a social and economic framework.
A section of the political class has laboured to keep us poor and yet again are the champions of disinformation and propaganda without a plausible alternative plan. They want the slums while they have enjoyed state-funded home ownership.
The same section of the political class who thrive in controlling the poor are worried that when this vulnerable social class is liberated from squalor they will loose footing since their quality of politics is not issue-based, but rather based on personality cults.
Let’s us, therefore, support the President in his efforts to collectively rebuild this society.
