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THE LIES THAT JUBILEE TELLS

1. INTRODUCTION

The Jubilee Alliance has just marked its first anniversary in power by releasing its own performance

as a government. The nation has heard the Jubilee story and ODM now wishes to undertake an

honest examination of the implementation of the Jubilee election campaign manifesto pledges; what

has been delivered and what has not been delivered, constituting Jubilee’s successes and failures over

the last one year.

1.1. Jubilee’s attitudes in government and leadership style.

Feedback is critical in modern governance systems where those in power presumably have a certain

social contract with the citizenry. However, the feedback and change processes work best where

governments have committed themselves to high degrees of responsiveness and have a genuine

interest in taking up the views of the people. There is not much evidence that Jubilee is one such

government. Nonetheless, it is the civic responsibility, national duty and inalienable right of ODM

to make this assessment. And we start by posing a question: has there been a national development

agenda under the Jubilee administration? The answer is ‘NO’. The right attitudes in government

would have seen Jubilee making the effort to rally the entire nation in support of their development

Vision, plans and programmes so that they do not remain the ideas and projects of Jubilee but the

aspirations and commitments of an entire nation. It is only then that a pact capable of delivering

development is struck between the government and the people.

Jubilee’s ‘know-it-all’ and ‘take it or leave it’ attitudes are bad for national development. And it is not

merely an error of omission on Jubilee’s part. It is deliberate action and commission. Jubilee leaders

are well aware of the importance of national conversations and consensus on development

trajectories and objectives. That is why when it served their short-term interests, they convened a

rather unsuccessful conference on the wage bill, as if that was where we ought to begin talking about

development in Kenya in the next five years. A responsible government does not go around the

country ‘assuring’ communities that they will be included in government’s development

programming irrespective of how they voted. That is patronizing and old-fashioned. Instead, the

government ought to convene and facilitate a national discussion to deliberate on the proposals of

the Jubilee Alliance and elevate them to be the national development agenda for five years of

Jubilee’s government. Rather than this the arrogance is now being taken over by the discredited

IEBC when it engages in chest thumbing in defence of the rigged elections that saw Jubilee to

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power. Proposals for the IEBC to “lend” BVR kits to Jubilee for purposes of ‘’digitalizing

government only reveal advance steps to prepare for rigging the next elections.

It is in public domain and open for all to see: this regime has ethnicized the Kenyan state more than

any other regimes before it. Just as the ruling alliance is an alliance of two ethnic blocks, so is the

composition of government. The government's net is cast so narrowly in public appointments, in

the worst cases leading to candidates' lists comprised of persons from only one tribe. Such politics

of exclusion is bad and potentially dangerous for a country with such social diversities as ours. By

excluding other Kenyans from public service, Jubilee is courting disaster and tempting the gods. It

should be understood that this exclusion of non 'Jubilee' ethnic communities goes on at the same

time as the marginalization of certain communities and social groups in our society. Does this

government know that many of the personally internally displaced by the violence of 2007/08 have

not received any support from government? There are IDPs in Nyanza, Western and other regions

other than the Rift Valley. Why would some IDPs receive Kshs. 400,000/- from government while

others receive nothing, in the same country? Is that not part and parcel of the shameless exclusion

and ethnic bigotry that is now Jubilee's established practice?

Even worse, it is now clear that Jubilee leaders have all along been harbouring strong reservations

against devolution. They have an entrenched faith in authoritarian rule borne mainly out of their

historical political socialization. Rather than wind down the Provincial Administration as

constitutionally required, Jubilee is creating a powerful structure of Presidential Authoritarianism in

the counties, in the name of executive County Commissioners. It is tantamount to further increasing

the wage bill, escalating constitutional crises and engendering unnecessary political tension in the

country. Jubilee should accept the will of the people for local self governance. It is not a favour from

them to the people of Kenya. It is a choice we consciously made.

The ongoing security operation, promoted as anti-terror strategies themselves represent forms of

discrimination and marginalization of communities, especially the Somali community. whereas

government has the responsibility and mandate to weed out criminals from society, that

responsibility is intertwined with the protection of rights and freedoms of individuals and groups.

Police action ought to be informed by intelligence information to make it more targeted. Security

'swoops' in selected neighborhoods are very poor responses to sophisticated planners of terrorist

activities. we cannot beat them in this way. At the same time, the fight against terrorism should not

be conflated with immigrations in the country. Again, making the assumption that people visiting

Kenya from certain countries are main suspects for terrorism-related crimes amounts to negative

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profiling of such communities. Let patterns emerge from evidence and intelligence and not

prejudice. In any case, Kenya has become an extremely insecure place under this Jubilee regime.

Marauding gangs and militias as well as blood thirsty criminals are having a field day as Jubilee

leaders watch without concrete action.

It elicits a lot of worry when a government clearly sets its eyes on gaining full control of the media,

civil society, trade unions and private equity! That is what Jubilee has been working on with the

Media and NGO bills they proposed and now the government's overt support for the establishment

of a second labour center in Kenya. Jubilee's proposal to increase workers' contribution to state-

managed pension scheme is a deliberate strategy to shift economic power from the private sector to

politicians and their cronies. It is very well known that social security savings from the bulk of

private equity that drives investment in most economies of the world. By taking away these muscles

from the private sector, Jubilee takes this country to the days when wealth and prosperity of

individuals and groups had little to do with effort but everything to do with political connections

that afforded such persons or groups access to monies held by government for maintaining

networks of patronage. While there is nothing terribly wrong about government-run pension funds,

Kenyans' experiences with the Kenya Posts and Telecommunications Corporation and the Kenya

Railways pension funds in the KANU days point to government tendency to apply pension funds to

patronage networks rather than intended purposes. In these two cases, the staff pensions were

completely lost and the economic standing of many families destroyed irrecoverably.

1.2. Jubilee’s Manifesto in the Context of Vision 2030.

The Kenyan development goal to become a ‘globally competitive and prosperous nation with a high

quality life for all citizens’ is spelt out in the long-term development blueprint; the Vision 2030. The

Vision is to be achieved by the implementation of its key 1,200 flagship projects, identified under its

economic, social and political pillars for structural transformation. These would transform Kenya

into ‘a newly-industrializing, middle- income country with a clean and secure environment’. It is on

the 1,200 Vision 2030 flagship projects that the Jubilee Coalition was to anchor the country’s

development path for its five years term in office. On a positive note, the Jubilee manifesto relates

closely with the grand plans outlined in Vision 2030. But the styles and attitudes of the Jubilee

administration are reflected here too. Any plan is as good as the frameworks for its implementation

which weigh heavily on chances of success.

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The apex governing organ of the Vision 2030 is the National Economic and Social Council (NESC),

which was created by the reformist NARC government in 2003. This body undertakes the

reflections and deliberations that lead to the formulation of the objectives of development and the

frameworks for monitoring implementation in a long-term perspective. It is such an important

organ of the Vision 2030 implementation process. It is a great disappointment that NESC has

remained moribund in the first one year of the Jubilee administration. How has NESC been

replaced? And with what institution? It is only a ‘philosopher-king’ mentality of people in

government that could explain the choices to ignore such an important institution. Long-term

development plans and the institutional arrangements to govern them were put in place to dismantle

the very practices that Jubilee have now resurrected from the graveyards of the lost decades in

development – patronage and neo-patrimonialism wrapped in the pack of presidential

authoritarianism. No surprise that national assets like oil fields are being auctioned to international

speculators without reference to any national institutions like parliament.

In the meantime, it is no wonder that the Jubilee regime is unable to reduce living costs. Life in

Kenya is increasingly becoming unbearable for many households as commodity prices rise steadily.

Interest rates remain high, making it difficult for entrepreneurs to start and sustain businesses that

may create jobs. Tourism is performing below expectations, partly because of the insecurities

emanating from terrorist activities, but also because of the government's laxity in marketing the

country. In the long-term, things will get worse for the sector, as poachers now move close to

completely wiping out some of our most attractive wildlife. How come certain things happen only at

certain historical conjectures? what is the history of poaching in Kenya and in which periods has it

been at such critical levels as it is today? For the first time in this country's history, a foreign

government has had to send planes to Kenya to collect their nationals because of insecurity. We

cannot just blame that on international terrorism. It is, in many respects, a sign of the deficiencies of

our own governance order.

We have, in our hands, a national crisis of unprecedented proportions. Sadly, this situation is the

creation of just a few Kenyans; an ethnic cabal that has appropriated all spaces for public affairs

management in this country, especially the critical positions in civil service. To them, government is

an exclusive arena for the pursuit of private and communal aggrandisement in favor of the

president's ethnic community. The national treasury and the State Law Office are good example. But

it extends to the very critical security sector and diplomatic postings around the world. Kenyans

cannot ignore this consistent and deliberate ethnicization of government any longer. It is not only

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dangerous to our national cohesion and stability, but greatly undermines the effectiveness of

government. The greed of a few cannot be allowed to jeopardize the fate of an entire nation. In a

diverse society such as ours, it is a misnomer that certain departments, committees or working

groups in government can actually conduct affairs in one ethnic language. We are courting disaster.

This terrible practice of misgovernance must stop.

2. JUBILEE’S DEVELOPMENT PROMISES AND THE LIES THEY HAVE

BECOME.

2.1. Assuming Power and continuing to campaign.

To the amazement of Kenyans, Jubilee leaders have remained in a campaign mode for a whole year

after assuming offices in government. Everywhere they go, they make promises of development. It

is the Jubilee leaders more than any others, who need to realize that campaigns are behind us. It is

time to deliver. Continuing to make promises is to say that the earlier promises were lies. And these

new ones, even if repetitions of the old promises, are lies too. It appears that Jubilee is focused on

sustaining hopes of the people for development rather than delivery of development promises. New

promises over old promises, in their view, will sustain the people’s hopes. Kenyans cannot live on

hope alone. Promises have a shelf life, beyond which they become lies.

2.2. Worrying trends in Agriculture, Land, Energy and Infrastructure Development

We have done a sector-by-sector review of development progress under the Jubilee administration.

But it’s important to pick out a few key areas at the heart of national development and make some

remarks about these. They are: Agriculture, Land, Energy and Infrastructure. It is now within the

knowledge of Kenyans and their leaders that our development will be hinged on these sectors. Yet

the performance of the Jubilee administration in managing and developing these key sectors is

wanting and worrying at the same time. On the whole, Jubilee’s one year in office has seen:

The failure to repossess illegally acquired public land as promised;

Suspect high costs of public projects in infrastructure such as the standard gauge railway

project;

Unjustifiable costs of electricity production and completion of major energy projects, like the

Nairobi transmission ring and the Mombasa – Nairobi transmission line.

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Clearly, whereas Kenyans see these four sectors as the life-blood of our economic life as a nation,

Jubilee seems to view them as the running taps of resources to be tapped for other uses other than

intended use. Over-blown costs of public projects inevitably lead to high user charges in sectors like

energy and infrastructure, hence inefficient production by firms that translates into high prices of

consumer goods and services for the people of Kenya. Jubilee ought to know that it is not just about

implementing public projects; it is about carrying out these projects honestly, with the best

intentions and at the lowest costs. Whether projects are funded by own resources or debt, if we pay

far much more than we needed to pay, they simply do not help much. There can only be one

explanation to this: corruption, unless the government admits limitations of skills and competencies

to evaluate public projects for ‘value for money’.

Hereafter we present a sector-by-sector analysis of the Jubilee promises and what the administration

has accomplished. We also evaluate the viability and soundness of the policy choices. It is to be

noted that the exclusivist approach to policy implementation, beginning with the increasing

ethinization of national institutions is bound to be the undoing of Jubilee.

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3. SECTOR - BY- SECTOR REVIEW

3.1. AGRICULTURE

Vision 2030 aims to transform the country’s agriculture from a subsistence-oriented sector into a more profitable, commercially-oriented

and internationally and regionally competitive economic activity that provides high quality and gainful employment to Kenyans.

Agricultural transformation is the process by which individual farms shift away from highly diversified, subsistence-oriented production

towards more specialized production made for the market or other systems of exchange. Agricultural transformation is a necessary part of

the broader process of structural transformation, in which an increasing proportion of economic output and employment are generated by

sectors other than agriculture. Hence, at the national level, the economy transforms from one that is predominantly rural and agricultural to

one that is urban, industrial and service oriented. The need to transform Kenya’s agriculture from the current state of widespread

subsistence to a more modern, market-oriented commercial sector is therefore urgent if the sector is to meet the goals set within the

timeframe. What has jubilee achieved?

Agricultural Sector

Vision Flagship

projects

Jubilee Manifesto Progress Critique and Verification

Enactment of the

Consolidated

Agricultural Reform Bill

Nothing said Achieved under

Grand Coalition.

AFFA Act 2013, Crops Act 2013, KALRO Act 2013

ASAL Development

project

Within five years, put a million

acres of land under modern

irrigation

Galana Irrigation

project launched

Galana Irrigation project launched prematurely without a

feasibility study.

Fertilizer cost-reduction

investment.

Nothing in the manifesto feasibility study to

construct own plant

finalized and

contractor identified

Cost at Ksh 47 billion is too thigh for one type of fertilizer.

Buying shares or fertilizer plant in Eastern European countries

should be an option

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Establishment of

Disease-Free Zones

Nothing in Manifesto feasibility study for

coast Region DFZ

finalized

Under Kibaki-Raila regime.

Other agricultural sector Jubilee Manifesto Pledges not in the Vision 2030 include:

1. Within two years, implement a public-private partnership insurance scheme to cushion livestock and crop farmers from risks,

2. Reduce the cost of credit by at least 50% of the commercial rate.

3 Initiate and support a county level framework for value addition of livestock and crops at source.

4. Double and diversify our national strategic food reserves from the current 22% to 40% of annual consumption.

5. Implement the Maputo Declaration to attain food surplus.

6. Revamp the mandate of the National Livestock Board.

7. Facilitate and encourage pastoral communities and regions to establish pasture banks along traditional pasturing routes.

8. Offer minimum guarantee to farmers in terms of crop and produce prices at the beginning of a crop season.

All these eight commitments are yet to be initiated one year after Jubilee came to power.

3.2. ENERGY

Energy is an extremely important resource for development as all the grand vision 2030 plans depend on available adequate energy. No

new energy project has been initiated under the Jubilee regime but all are a continuation of the on-going projects inherited. In the

meantime, the management of the Energy Sector is being destabilized by cronyism, nepotism, and corruption.

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Subsector Jubilee Manifesto pledge Progress Critique and Verification

Electricity

generation

Connect 2 million new

consumers in one year

Finalized plans to increase the supply of

reliable and affordable 5,538 megawatts

into the national grid and lower the cost

of power in the next three years including

hydro, thermal power and green and

cheaper natural gas coal-fired power

plants.

Cost is now Ksh 75000 for rural

connection while GOK insists it is only

Ksh 35,000, as a result, standoff and no

connections for past one year. None of

institutions in sector had even CEOs

over the past one year.

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3,196 GWh of electricity

were to be produced using

natural hydro, wind and

geothermal resources as well

as thermal fuel generated

from green sources.

250mw diesel plants

1920mw coal plants

1646mw geothermal plants

630mw wind power plants

24 mw hydro kindaruma

250mw diesel plants

18mw co-generation

1,250 mw LNG liquefied

natural gas

Power and Lighting Company

* 170,758 customers connected to the

national grid.

* 10,119km of additional lines.

* 24MVA of generation capacity

connected to network.

* Average retail tariff-industrial was

reduced from 14.14 to 13.56.

* Average retail tariff-domestic was

reduced from 19.76 to 19.13.

* 33 sub-stations are at various levels of

completion.

Geothermal Development Company

*Completion of contracts for

procurement of three additional drilling

rigs.

* Drilling of three geothermal wells in

Menengai.

* Tender preparations for 90MW power

plant in Menengai are at advanced stage.

Being executed at extremely high cost

above international benchmark prices.

Complete the Nairobi

Transmission Ring Project

and the Mombasa-Nairobi

KenGen - geothermal development

programme starting with the flagship

Olkaria I & IV 280MW at an estimated

Being executed at extremely high cost

above international benchmark prices.

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Transmission Line to ensure

reliable power supply for

our two largest cities.

Prioritise the construction of

an oil pipeline from South

Sudan and a new oil refinery

at the coast.

cost of $1 billion (Sh86 billion). It is one

of the most competitive projects, with an

overall tariff of around 5 US cents. The

project is 89 per cent complete with most

installations complete and 210MW

scheduled to be commissioned by July

2014.

Multi-purpose

Water Dams

HIGH Grand Multipurpose

Dam Thika-700mw

Magwagwa Multipurpose

Dam kisii-120mw

Arror Multipurpose Dam

west pokot-60mw

Nandi Forest Multipurpose

Dam Nandi-50mw

Not started

Not started

Not started

Not started

Not started

Not started

Not started

Not started

Encourage the

establishment of solar farms

that are partly owned by the

local community to supply

local people with energy and

sell the surplus back to

Kenya Power at commercial

rates.

.Not done

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Create an Oil & Gas

Revenue Fund and give 5%

of public revenues back to

the local communities where

resources are located and

5% to pay for the roll out of

local renewable energy

schemes. Also fund the

restoration and

rehabilitation of excavated

areas.

.

Not done

3.3. LAND

The realization of the desired socio-economic transformation under Vision 2030 for any sector is founded on a sound policy on land,

which, as a major factor of production, is the foundation from which the flagship projects will be implemented. In this respect, the Vision

lays emphasis on land reforms, with the preparation of the National Spatial Plan (NSP), which is also another flagship project. It is

envisaged that the Plan will guide the prudent use of national space, resources and enhance sectoral co-ordination.

Even more importantly, the Jubilee manifesto pledged repossession of all illegally occupied public land without compensation and the

prosecution of land grabbers. They also promised to improve the efficiency and speed of processing title deeds. Nothing of the sort has

happened. Instead, most of what is emanating from Ardhi House has been the power struggle between the cabinet secretary and the

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National Land Commission that has slowed down reforms and programmes with the latter having moved to the Supreme Court for clear

interpretation of functions. The delay in processing title deeds has had adverse effects on business, real estate development and land

inheritance. At Ardhi House, the cabinet secretary represents a government that is unwilling to surrender major land management activities

to the constitutionally mandated NLC. The cabinet secretary is protecting big political interests who may be badly exposed by efficient land

procedures to be administered by the NLC, including re-examining some of the title deeds suspected to have been obtained fraudulently or

in respect of grabbed land in previous years.

Land Sector

Vision Flagship

projects

Jubilee Manifesto Progress Critique and Verification

National Land

Information

management

Repossession of all illegally occupied

public land without compensation

The prosecution of land grabbers

to accelerate issuance of title deeds

Started Acts passed under coalition government.

National Land Title

Register

Started Not done

Modernization of Land

registries

7 constructed

in 7 counties

Not done

Land Use Master Plan Not mentioned Started writing

policy

Not done

National spatial plan Not mentioned TOR drafted Not done

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3.4. INFRASTRUCTURE

Vision Flagship

projects

Jubilee Manifesto Progress Critique and Verification

Standard Gauge

Railway from

Mombasa to

Nairobi

Improve the rail network

to upgrade the links

between major cities. This

will include building a new

standard Gauge Railway

from Mombasa to Malaba

with a branch line to

Kisumu in line with current

5% to at least 50%.

Project launched by

president November

2013 even when a letter

from office of the

Deputy President was

officially questioning its

commercial business

viability and tendering

process among other

shortfalls. No longer

going past Nairobi.

Most controversial with total project cost not known. First

cost was Ksh. 220 billion which rose to Ksh. 327 billion

after the CRBC was allowed to include locomotives,

passenger cabins and wagons. The latest is Ksh 447 billion

to cater for land acquisition, loan insurance and loan

processing fee.

Lamu Port South

Sudan Ethiopia

Transport project

(LAPSSET)

Implement and actualize

the LAPSSET corridor

(Lamu Port, South Sudan,

Ethiopia Transport)

LAPSSET Dev.

Authority formed as a

vehicle to execute the

project

A Vision 2030 project that was to open the land corridor

for massive investment and opening the northern Kenya

region is being eclipsed by the SGR project.

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Nairobi Mass Rail

Transport System

Construct a series of

commuter railway

networks in all major cities

in Kenya i.e. Nairobi,

Mombasa and Kisumu,

including a link to

Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta

International Airport.

Sokymau, Imara Daima

and Makadara railways

stations opened

Partially done.

All initiated under the grand coalition regime.

Other manifesto pledges on infrastructure and transport include:

1. Give the Kenya National Highways Authority responsibility for all international, national and primary roads.

2. Abolish the Kenya Rural Roads Authority and the Kenya Urban Roads Agency and devolve management of secondary and minor

roads to the counties.

3. Prioritize the upgrading of rural road networks and feeder roads.

4. Continue with the program of upgrades to the major road network.

5. Restructure and modernize the ferry and inland water vessel services in Kenya and create linkages to the main ports and road

networks.

6. Make JKIA the regional airline hub and expand and modernize existing international airports i.e. Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret.

Expand, modernize and maintain airstrips and create a network of county airstrips to promote trade.

7. Complete the expansion of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport which includes a new terminal and runway, and build a new

international airport at Isiolo.

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3.5. EDUCATION, FREE LAPTOPS AND SCHOOL MILK

The fiasco of free laptops promised for every primary school child in Kenya must be one of Jubilee’s worst nightmares. Economic reality

had already forced scaling down of the project from all primary schools. It is now a full-blown procurement scandal. Information we are

currently verifying indicate that close to Sh1 billion may have been lost as transaction costs in what has now turned out to be a major

corruption deal.

Vision 20130 Flagship Education Projects:

The flagship projects in education sector include

(1) Mainstreaming Early Childhood Development Education.

(2) Curriculum review and reform.

(3) Integrating Information, Communication and Technology into Teaching and Learning.

(4) Laptop Programme.

(5) Establishment of education Management information system.

(6) Training artisans.

(7) Basic education infrastructure.

(8) TVET infrastructure and equipment.

(9) Human resource in support of University education.

(10) Education in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas.

The government has been singly focused on the now failed laptops project, probably because of its immense potential to generate

kickbacks.

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Vision 2030 Jubilee Pledge Progress Critique and Verification

Mainstrea

m ECDE

Increase the

number of schools

The Basic Education Act, 2013 enacted

Increase the

student-teacher

ratio

Not achieved Student-teacher ratio to 1: 40 students

not yet achieved, because many public

schools are still overcrowded by students

and with few teachers.

Increase education

funding

1440 secondary schools received grants to purchase lab

equipment worth Sh200 million

The ministry bought ICT equipment worth Sh350 million

and distributed it to 200 schools

Increase education funding by 1% each

year so that by 2018 it reaches 32% of

Government spending.

provide solar

powered lap-top

computers

The laptop project for Standard One pupils: The process

of procuring and funding are in place to buy1, 203,539

laptops for learners and 20,637 for teachers, 20637

printers and 20637 projectors. Though the award of the

tender was cancelled by the Public Procurement

Administrative Review Board, the ministry was given 45

days to conclude the procurement.

Not achieved.

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Primary

schools

Provide free milk for

every primary school

going child which will

be sourced from

County-based dairy

farmer saccos

Being introduced in phases.

May end up favoring certain areas and creating social

disparities and unequal empowerment for performance

improvement.

Not achieved.

Raise the transition

rate from primary to

secondary to 90%

while improving

transition rates from

secondary to tertiary

and university levels

The transition rate from primary to secondary school

increased from 76.75 to 76.76 per cent.

Not achieved.

Secondary

schools

Give tax incentives

for companies

offering

apprenticeships to

those who complete

their secondary

education

Not done Not done.

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Introduce a national

scheme of

Government funded

scholarships for the

brightest primary

school students

Not done

Make it mandatory

that state secondary

schools take a

minimum 50% of

their student intake

from public schools

school.

Unevenly implemented.

Tertiary &

University

Education:

Expand the

number of post-

secondary places.

The ministry established the Kenya Universities and

Colleges Central Placement Services to coordinate

national admission to universities and middle-level

colleges.

Actual implementation pending

Business bursary

scheme

Establish a business bursary scheme and encourage

private companies - through tax incentives to contribute

to the scheme.

Problematic.

Needs parliamentary approval.

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Sponsor qualified Sponsor qualified students through university in return

for a 1-year work commitment after graduation.

It’s not done. Trying to jump onto a long

running Equity bank MasterCard

initiative.

Increase the school

leaving age

Not done

Strengthen the

Commission for

University

Education (CUE)

No major action

Turning middle-

level colleges into

universities

Reverse the current trend of turning

middle-level colleges into universities

and reinstate them. Not done.

Open new

vocational technical

institutes

Open new vocational technical institutes

in each constituency. Not done.

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3.6. THE NATIONAL TREASURY

Subsector Jubilee pledge Progress Critique and verification

IFMIS Making the Public

Procurement regime

open, transparent and

corruption-free in

order to ensure that all

deserving young

entrepreneurs have the

opportunity to secure

Government tenders.

The National Treasury

facilitated connectivity of

the 47 counties to the

IFMIS system and

Technical and functional

teams were sent to the

counties to provide support

and train throughout the

year.

The IFMIS procure-to-pay

module was supposed to be

implemented during the

year. It could have allowed

for efficient supplier and

purchase order management

through an automated

process that starts at

IFMIS has good intentions but laxity in

implementation

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development of

procurement plans, actual

procurement and payment

of suppliers for goods or

services delivered.

Mobilization of

external resources

Provide loans and

grants to new small

businesses through the

new development

agency-Biashara Kenya.

The External Resources

Department facilitated the

signing of financing

agreements worth Sh98.15

billion in loans and Sh2

billion in grants. The

agreements were with 19

development partners

across the world.

The recent amendment of the Public Financial

Management Act removing ceilings in foreign

borrowings is likely to lead to an unmanageable

external debt situation

Procurement With immediate effect,

activating the 30%

procurement rule in

Government

procurement policy. In

specific projects like

water harvesting and

renewable energy,

women entrepreneurs

The Public Procurement

and Disposal Act 2005

amended via The Public

Procurement and Disposal

(Preference and

Reservations) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2013. To

provide exclusive preference

to local contractors of

No evidence that Corruption in procuring has

reduced greatly and that process is now free and

fair for all.

Likelihood that rent seeking check points may

erode the gains intended.

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will be given priority.

We will also review the

Women’s Enterprise

Fund to assist women

entrepreneurs seeking

large contracts and

business.

vehicles, plant equipment,

construction material,

furniture and textiles made

locally.

Exclusive preference to

Kenyans for road works

goods and services. They

also provide for allocation

of at least 30 per cent

procurement by public

entities to enterprises owned

by youth, women and

people with disability.

Public-Private

Partnership

Enact new Public

Private Partnership

(PPP) legislation to

encourage private

investment in public

projects, speeding up

the delivery of

infrastructure urgently

needed to achieve

Kenya Vision 2030.

The Public Private

Partnership Act, 2013 was

enacted, establishing a legal

framework to ensure

accountability and private

sector participation in

development. A Public

Private Partnership Unit has

been established and is

operational.

But attracting private investment will still require a

healthier investment climate devoid of corruption

and bureaucratic red tape.

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3.7. HEALTH

Subsector Jubilee pledge Progress Critique and Verification

Maternity Health

Free maternal health

services.

On June 2013, the Government

declared free maternity services in

all public facilities which been

successfully implemented in all

public health facilities that provide

maternity services.

Hospitals, like KNH, are piling up

debts and other services are

adversely affected.

Implementation of free maternity

services has seen an increase in the

number of deliveries in public health

facilities. The number of deliveries has

increased to 66 per cent from 44 per

cent. The number of complications

reduced last year compared to 2012. In

addition, free maternity services have led

to a decline in maternal deaths – 919

maternal deaths were reported in 2012,

but 854 last year. A crisis, however, is

looming due to gross inadequacy of

government funding. Whereas the

government provides subsidies at the

rate of Kshs.17,000/- per delivery, actual

costs are far much higher. Kenyatta

National Hospital, for example, is left

with a bill of about Kshs.300M every

month after exhausting the subsidy.

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Primary health

care

Free primary health care

In this financial year, the

government provided Sh700

million to primary health facilities

to compensate them for the loss of

user fees. Between July and

December last year,2,481

dispensaries and 832 health centres

were covered under this

programme and received Sh389.5

million as user fee compensation

As a result of this initiative, use of health

services in primary care facilities

increased, with visits rising to 18 million

from 12 million between June and

December last year compared to the

same period in 2012. This translates to a

50 per cent increase. But this

arrangement is no substitute for a

Universal Social Health Insurance which

is much more sustainable.

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NHIF Universal health coverage

through NHIF

The Ministry of Health is

establishing a unified framework

for management of healthcare

services for the poor, marginalised

and vulnerable through the

Healthcare Subsidies for Social

Health Protection. The number of

NHIF branches and service points

increased from 88 in June last year

to 97 in January.

While the number of providers in NHIF

network increased from 1,285 to 1,403 in

the same period. NHIF membership has

risen from 3.8 million in June last year to

4.12 million - 2.85 million from the

formal sector and 1.27 million from the

informal sector. This means the

members have risen to 14 million and

dependants to 16.25 million.

But once more only Universal Health

Insurance will meet the constitutional

requirement of universal access to health

care, emergency services and

reproductive health.

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Slum health

facilities

Construction of health

facilities in informal

settlements

Initiatives have been taken to

improve health facilities in the

informal settlements, especially in

Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.

Sh200 million has been allocated

for this. Implementation will be

carried out by the National

Housing Corporation using

cheaper building technology to

reduce cost

Initiatives have been taken to improve

health facilities in the informal

settlements , especially in Nairobi,

Mombasa and Kisumu. Sh200 million

has been allocated for this.

Implementation will be carried out by

the National Housing Corporation using

cheaper building technology to reduce

cost.

Digitise health

facilities

Digitisation of health

facilities

A web-based health information

management system in use in the

public health sector provides a

platform onto which manual

reports are transcribed at the sub-

county, resulting in a variety of

reports.

This initiative will move health

information from paper to digital in all

public health facilities.

Has this been done or is it still at the

expectation stage?

Human

Resource

Development

Human resource

management

In July last year, the government committed Sh3.1 billion for recruitment of 30

community nurses in every constituency, Sh522 million for 10 community

health workers a constituency and Sh1.2 billion for provision of housing units

to health care workers. But where are the nurses?

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Equipping

hospitals

Equipping hospitals Kenyatta National

Hospital

The procurement and

installation of the

endoscopy machine at

a cost of Sh20 million

Procurement of the

linear accelerator

cancer machine at

Sh30 million

Operation of the

MDR-TB isolation

facility at a cost of

Sh50 million

Proposed projects at KNH

Construction of a burn and paediatric centre at

Sh400 million

Construction of critical care centre at Sh15.5 million

Establishment of a fully equipped radiology centre at

Sh102 million

Construction of an orthopaedic centre at Sh130

million.

All these were initiatives under my care as

Nothing new here.

3.8. INDUSTRALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

Subsector Jubilee pledge Progress Critique and verification

Employment Create 1 million

new jobs

Buy Kenya and Build Kenya Policy is

finalized. To ensure government agencies

promote local production by buying

In progress.

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Kenyan products and promoting

manufacturing.

Target a 7-10 per

cent growth rate in

the first two years

of the Jubilee

In progress.

Promote the

creation of a Single

East African Market

(SEAM), totally

phasing out tariffs

and barriers among

East African

Community

member countries

and moving

creation of a single

regional towards the

currency.

In early stages of implementation

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Keeping the

exchange rate stable

and control the

flow of money into

the economy in

order to lower

interest rates and

keep inflation in

check.

Comparing Kibaki’s Government with Uhuru,

the economy during Kibaki’s Government was

more stable than the current one. The economy

has not been fully stabilized.

Enterprise Encourage

enterprise

Expanding the economy and promoting

industries so that jobs and business

opportunities are created. We will

transform the Youth Enterprise

Development Fund and Kenya Industrial

Estates into a new national enterprise

agency Biashara Kenya. This agency will

catalyse further economic growth.

Retaining a youth focus by placing

representatives from the National Youth

Sector Alliance on the new agencys board.

Not achieved.

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Giving tax breaks/holidays to our young

people to encourage them to initiate start-

up businesses. To sustain this, the Coalition

Government will introduce a policy of

purchasing locally manufactured goods and

services.

Not yet accomplished.

Encouraging the development of micro-

financial schemes for new businesses and

farmers along the lines of tire renowned

and successful Grameen Bank model.

Initiated by previous government

Introducing tax breaks for companies that

establish apprenticeship programmes for

young people equipping young people with

necessary skills and technology

On progress.

Providing training services and creating

market for locally producer? goods and

services internally, regionally and

internationally. We will promote brand-

names of locally manufactured, products to

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boost incomes for promising artisans. More

specifically, we will create markets for Jua

Kali products, male and female body care

products, coffee houses and milk-bars.

Building on the Economic Stimulus

Program (ESP) by establishing local

economic development agencies at a county

level so that every county and constituency

will have access to crucial facilities and

services.

This initiative should be appropriately

anchored at the county government

Developing special Industrial Parks and

clusters in the counties that will target

young people and women who start small

businesses and providing access to

electricity, water, capital equipment and

clean sanitary environments and improved

access roads. This will boost growth at the

county level and help to stem rural-urban

migration, itself a significant strain on

Implementation still pending.

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Kenya’s major towns.

Create a National Trust Fund from a

significant portion of proceeds from

Government sale of its shares and assets of

parastatals. The fund will be appropriated in

the name of every citizen in the nature of

pension funds, CDS accounts, and other

Social Security Funds.

Not approved.

Industrial

Development

An industrial

revolution

Improve our energy infrastructure and

promote alternative energy sources so as to

create the adequate and cost-effective

energy supply regime necessary for

industrial take-off.

This has been in a long journey from Coalition

Government. The two Governments have

contributed towards achieving the stated goal.

Not yet achieved.

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Help Kenya’s business sector become as

competitive as possible by reducing

business taxation, removing unnecessary

regulation and encouraging competition

through new enterprise zones in each

county.

Not yet achieved.

Introduce tax incentives to encourage

investment and growth in the

manufacturing and service sectors, which

will enable the Coalitions pledge of creating

1 million new jobs to become a reality.

Not approved.

Pursue exchange rate stabilization policy

and monetary policy that will lower interest

rates.

No signs of reducing interest rates.