For The First Time Leadership Delights Kenyan Minds

November paves its way into this country in a new way. Just like any other month it can't be ignored, ask those who ply Jogoo and Mombasa roads in Nairobi. Then came the rains which brought along the reign of poor leadership of the country.
The second week of the month now was the best week ever, it started of well with a cabinet Secretary going to the ETHICS AND ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION and also several forums have been held around the country especially within the capital which is believed to hold most elites and middle class inhabitants as compared to the other parts of the country.

To start off the week was the EABL Foundation that marked its 10 years anniversary with the promotion and awareness of one of its for fundamental pillars, Skills for life which was held at Strathmore University in Nairobi. A lot was discussed and some few insights provided. First was that there needs to be a linkage and strong partnership between the public and private sectors. The young Kenyans who hold the leadership of this country at heart were also advised that they do not need a quorum to prove leadership skills and demand accountability. The cool auditorium was filled with some nice sentiments of strong and responsible leadership and what needs to be adopted to achieve a stable leadership both internally, regionally and internationally. For more on the pillars of EABL Foundation log on to their website https://www.eablfoundation.com/focus-areas

Then there came the weekly Ibua Africa twitter chat and this week they also chose to go the leadership way by hosting Joe Gachira, the co-founder of Inuka Leadership an organization that focuses on establishing and mentoring young people around the country. The twitter chat was educative all through the earlier day of the week and reached its peak on Wednesday. Joe is a determined gentleman and this is candid in the first few minutes you meet him, he is so spot and organized and conscious of his environment. I happened to join him for the chat and can guarantee you a minute spent around him is among so inspirational and can always goes to history books. He believes in strong leadership qualities and among his top; integrity, accountability and determination. For more on leadership and if you are tired of complaining about poor leadership and governance log on to the Inuka Leadership website and register so as to rejuvenate the direction and focus of our leadership http://inukaleadership.org/

This country has good and exemplary leaders both young, and old and they should be the ones to spearhead the way the country should be governed and if done in the correct manner then we will be good to go. Institutions like Ibua Africa take the initiative of identifying young Kenyans across the country who are doing exemplary things and transforming lives and leadership of this country. Some of the youths hosted before are Kelvin Macharia of Sunrise Tracking, Anne Wawira of Food4Education, the amazing and outshining Bidanya Barasa of Top Image and Liz Marami from the Kenyan Marine just to mention a few but of course they also go further to look for change and am talking of as far as Turkana County, to bring you the one and only Ekai Nabenyo of Article 48 . To get more of the exemplary young people and what Ibua Africa does log on to their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Ibua-Africa-719491048090866/

We all want good leadership for this country but do we focus in taking part in the formation of the leadership? We are more absorbed into taking sides that we often think demanding accountability is by blaming the other side for their mistakes. That should not be the case. Servant leadership is the best type of leadership the world over and is not new as it existed even in the Bible. Leadership starts with us. Your child cries, then you buy him or her a sweet to comfort them and make them stop crying, then that's how they learn CORRUPTION because they grow knowing for something to happen , favors must be provided. We need to know the qualities of leadership that we should standby before criticizing the leadership we have because if we are all absorbed in noise and sycophancy then we won't have time to get keen details on what is expected. Integrity is the first and this should be taught to our children right from the elementary level of education all the way to institutions of higher learning. Second to it is accountability, are we ourselves responsible of our actions, do you follow simple rules, do you observe street lights as a pedestrian on a Sunday night when nobody is watching? When follow these simple rules then we will know the, magnitude of the leaders committing huge mistakes and we will then demand accountability and not politicize issues that are noble to our welfare and the survival of this country. there are still other qualities that count like transparency, knowing how to work within target lines and also humility.
The November leadership was summed up on a Thursday by several forums talking of corruption and the stake of the country's leadership both in the government, non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations. The Institute of Security Studies held a panel discussion on the current state of corruption and constitution implementation process as per now and what came out was that the only thing that has been devolved is CORRUPTION. There was an agreement that devolution is the best system for this country, and what happened has been an eye opener and come next election Kenyan will know what to demand and expect from their leaders at the different levels of the decentralized government. Also on the same day the Nairobi Peace Talks were held at the United Nations Offices In Nairobi and a lot discussed with youths giving their opinions on how this country should be run.

This is thus a call to action for us at individual level to first of all practice leadership, enforce leadership, teach leadership to our young ones then finish by demanding strong and accountable leadership from the government. Have a lovely Friday and this time it is not a normal Friday but it is FRIDAY THE 13TH

EDUCATION VALUE AMID STRIKE

The education system in Kenya is one system that though it seems more of customized to fit the inhabitants of the country, there is more to it as it can easily be adopted by any nation that wishes to. Key to this is that it is simple and well structured. The 8.4.4 education

system has proven successful as ever since independence, most of the people who are working in the different sectors of the Kenyan job market have gone through the system.

The purpose of education is to empower the society right from the grass root to the top. However in Kenya things are not the same, many people in the country acquire education for the purpose of getting employed at some point in life. This move has come with so many challenges especially in the job market. The quality of education has been determined by the certificates you have rather than the skills you have achieved. Many people have sought out to illicit ways of acquiring education certificates so as to secure opportunities within the job market.


The system of delivering the education from the practitioners to the learners over time has never been evaluated. Most of the time teacher focus on completing the syllabus rather than assessing the learners to determine whether they have acquired the skills and knowledge given to them. Learners have therefore acquired the mentality that they are not in schools to learn and acquire new skills and better the ones they have but rather to move from one class to another and from one to the next level. This mentality is what prompts them to cheat in examinations so as to be able to move to the next level. This necessarily is because they don't see to it that if they don't move to the next class its because they are not able to retain what has been delivered to them but rather they see themselves as being the stupid as compared to the rest in the class. This is a call to action that reforms should be made.


Education should be highly valued both by the citizens and also by the government. It pains to see the leaders who are at the top instead of looking for solutions they behave like ladies who know they are beautiful and are being seduced by a previous fiancee to their best friend. It is as simple as obeying promises and paying teachers their dues and if there is no money, then negotiations should be done orderly. I find it hard to know the difference between the teacher who is carrying a cooking pan around and a senior government official who goes in the public to respond to the teachers action. I wonder how if i were a student, a teacher would stand abreast to give me knowledge and tell me to stay and behave mature when i saw him or her on the street hauling and carrying a pan written on HUNGER which gets me wondering if its their only problem.

The big question is will paying teachers the money solve all their problem? Will paying them improve the quality of education in the country? It sounds more of a noisy system if we will pay teachers a hefty sum of money when our children in the rural still cant pronounce simple English terms, if they cant simply retain what they learn in the school rooms, it will still be more worse if on the closing day our children will still be found in buses abusing drugs and indulging in activities we cant even talk of.
How valuable is the education we receive vis-a-vis the requirements of the job market today, does it march up? Are we after skills in education or are we chasing after papers? Recently 5000 graduated from the University of Nairobi alone but will they all be absorbed in the JOB MARKET?
Where then do they go to? Can they sustain themselves even without being employed based on the skills they have?

Lets all work towards a better country with an empowered human capital and a skillful job market where only those are FIT are in job industry.

Eugene: BEST KENYAN PRESIDENT

Eugene: BEST KENYAN PRESIDENT: Society dictates what we do. However there are few people who dictate what happens to society, the high and mighty. In a small country East ...

BEST KENYAN PRESIDENT

Society dictates what we do. However there are few people who dictate what happens to society, the high and mighty. In a small country East of Africa, deep down the sub Saharan continent is our beautiful Kenya in the days gone. The peaceful country is a description of any other country and not ours. We are characterized by chaos and crimes. Worse to this is our own number one citizen,the President.As citizens wail and cry in deep pain he is busy acquiring top positions in the AU. Looking from the outside of the cave you would say he is the best president Kenya has ever had but wait, we also say China is a super power even if its poor citizens are languishing in Kenya here at construction sites as 'watu wa mjengo' yet our own Kenyans hail them thinking they are foreign contractors. He will only be my best president when, Amb. Monica Juma is vetted in by the parliament on the basis of merit and not be locked out by MPs just because she was reducing corruption. He will be my best president if he will call his deputy and advice him, to remember he is a deputy president and is to avoid minor scandals like land grabbing. He will, only will, be my best president if Mandera would be the best place and most safest place to stay, teachers would be the most admired working force, the military comprised of people who voluntarily want to work for the nation and not a bandwagon of Kenyans who look unto it as the best alternative after performing averagely in school. BUILDING HIS OWN RAPPORT wont feed a hungry Kenyan in the deserts, neither will it console the families of those who lost their beloved one in Garissa, it wont solve the two killing in the University of Nairobi nor will it lure Kenyans to trust that the corrupt government officials are out of office. We need more than that Mr. President.