Debate Guru

The quote “Do not ask what your nation will do for you instead ask yourself what you can do for your nation” is often quoted but never given in complete perspective, What can a government do for her people before she asks the same from her citizens? Currently, the Kenyan government is negotiating for another 10 year extension window for the importation of sugar and sugar products from the COMESA region. This could be  good for Kenyan economy for it also allows the exchange of other Kenyan products into the same market but this bilateral agreement has killed a potential Kenyan agricultural sector; The sugar industry. Well, it is not a lost fact that the sugar sector has been in the doldrums and has envisaged lip-service more than real development policies. The sugar industry players for a good period cumulatively presided over the death of sugar factories like Ramisi and Miwani and the few actively remaining factories like Mumias, SONY, Chemelil, and Nzoia have be...

Recently on the April 30, 2013, I buried my grandfather Mzee Dan Jared Okuku Ondiegi (Danjo). He took a bow after living 86 years of life albeit with the last one being bedridden after suffering a stroke that paralysed his right side. But this is the one person who I managed to see his last 32 years of life for he literally shaped my life since he was the father I knew in my entire life. In 1992 December, at the age of 11 years when I still might have not understood the value of life, I lost my dad Joseph Olal Adiema. Even though I was not staying with him due to the tumultuous marriage he had,  but I could see the overbearing grief in the eyes of my mother Peninah Atieno Olal; a 36 year old young woman and an even younger co-wife Mary Akeyo Olal who had been thrown into the hands of widowhood at tender ages. The pangs of this loss were later to have full effect on the family stability and my siblings too long to gain their foothold in what happens to them. All this time, I was c...