President Uhuru Kenyatta housing levy from staff salaries at the end of April has elicited public outrage. And it is clear that Kenyans are not ready for this.
If President Uhuru cared to listen, he would have by now realised that most Kenyans don’t believe his government can build 500,000 houses within three years to the end of his term in office.
They don’t trust the President and his government with their taxes to provide social housing either.
Mega dam and irrigation projects such as Arror and Kimwarer were sold as the magic bullet for the perennial droughts and food insecurity.
Construction of the two dams in Elgeyo-Marakwet County is yet to start two years since the contract was awarded to an Italian company now flirting with bankruptcy.
Kenyans have calculated these, and they know the project isn’t for their own good;