With great power comes a great responsibility

The most celebrated jargon with the advent of the jubilee administration is the word 'digital', whatever the relevance, I do not know. But why I like President Uhuru Kenyatta is because, unlike the average Kenyan leader, his ambition is priced and his words can be taken to the bank. We are living in the dispensation of information technology where the slogan is no-longer survival for the fittest, but survival for the informed. It is a society that does not only anticipate for a brighter future but believes it can invest and live in that future as at current.
This creative economy is not for yes-men nor for the sycophants, it is for the go-getters, those who believe it is their responsibility in whatever circumstance to change the reality of their surrounding. How do you then change the reality of your immediate surrounding if in the fast place you do not know the problems that confront your neighbourhood? That question is rarely asked, and sad enough, those self proclaimed masterminds of development do not seek to address this adverse effects of ignorance.
Information is power, so they say. With great power comes a great responsibility, ooh yes we can take that to the bank. But now what is the missing link, why the poverty amid oceans of resources? Why are the majority of our people still struggling with hand to mouth lifestyles when actually we should no-longer be worrying about food security? How comes in this age, knowledge is still inaccessible leave alone being unaffordable to a majority of our juvenile population? Why should we in this era still agitate on lack of access to clean water and health services? it is a sad story.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have the power, at least for a majority of us who afforded to reach high school education. For those of us who graduated from college and University, somebody gave you the power to read and write, that you cannot deny, unless on the day of your graduation you were busy sleeping. That power is in our minds. That power to alleviate poverty from our society, that power to eradicate ignorance and disillusionment in our midst, that power to realise a healthy and empowered society, a society swimming in abundance of material prosperity, good governance and well established democratic institutions. yes, that power we can claim it, at least we have the prerogative to do so.
Back to my tenet, ' with great power comes a great responsibility'. I do not need to elaborate why the power has not generated the material benefits. We do not take up the responsibility, if not, we are running away from the responsibility. But somebody again said, 'responsibility gravitates on those that can shoulder them'. does that imply we are running away from this responsibility, now that it is responsibility which seeks those with ability to carry them out. Are we still in the euphoria of serikali iingilie kati, or the likes of serikali itupe kazi.
Unapologetically, I will tell you, its nobody's business to employ you, not even your mother, your destiny is in your mind, you can choose to chase it or throw it in employment. The role of the government is essentially to provide services, not employ people. Its time to move from the know-how to the do-how phase of our development because only action changes reality, thinking doesn't. If we must think development, then it is our responsibility to do development, if we anticipate of best practices in our agriculture at-least you now know that thinking and anticipating doesn't change reality, action does my friend. Tuseme na tutende, tubadilishe hali yetu, tujenge uchumi yetu na hatimaye tujenge taifa letu. Shalom.