The Need for Efficiency

There is an urgent need to ensure efficient management of  resources to make meaningful head ways towards the vision

 

More often than not it is the knowledge of how best to use your resources than how much you have that makes the difference. Kenya has very minimal resources if at all any; this doesn’t mean that we can’t make it. If we learn to use what we have to the maximum benefit we will do just as well as countries that have abundant resources at their disposal. We are not reaping enough benefit from agriculture which is the backbone of our economy yet we want ICT to work for us.

If you ask me Agriculture is the place we should be wasting our many because a hungry economy is as good as dead. Instead of spending millions of dollars to lay fiber optic cables across oceans we should be looking at how we can make the entire north eastern province arable by irrigation. What value will communication give a country that has a food deficit each year?

I heard the other day the Prime Minister say that the Kenyan Government was taking action to avert the hunger crisis by inviting donors to help. That to me is barbaric and silly. The same way we invested in laying an oil pipe network is what we should have done 40 years ago for water. We cannot seat back and expect donors to come to our rescue each year when it rather obvious that rain fed agriculture never seems to work for us. Maximum utility of the land must be achieved and that can only be done if irrigation is taken seriously.