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Wednesday, February 1, 2024 –Azimio la Umoja leaders Raila Odinga now says, without proper national dialogue on the housing programme, Kenya Kwanza administration was headed to fail on the project.
In his understanding on how things work in government, Odinga said Ruto’s administration will find it easier to rollout their projects if they understand that the citizens’ input is necessary in most of the key projects that directly touches on their lives.
“Let us have a national dialogue on how this program is going to be rolled out so that people own it properly. People understand what you want to do, Odinga said in the PNU 15th Anniversary held in Nairobi today.
He reminisced his days with the late Mwai Kibaki in power saying they constantly spoke to the people about any major project before going full on it.
The ODM Party boss listed the multi-billion Standard Gauge Railways, Vision 2023, Konza Technopolis and Lapset as one of the projects that PNU government undertook with caution through deliberations with stakeholders.
“When we were making the transformation with Kibaki, we convened a conference at Bomas of Kenya for one week. It was called the Kenya We Want and people dialogued and agreed on what needed to be done in our country. Then we also set up a think tank called the National Economic and Social Council (NESC). It had experts from Singapore, Korea, and Britain and experts from within the country.”
The former Prime Minister added that forcing any project on the people was the worst approach this government was applying and, instead, advised that, this approach of things will give the William Ruto-led administration a difficult time implementing their agenda.
The opposition leader argued that, once the people get to understand the whole plan, it will be easier for them to assimilate and absorb it without further resistance.
Odinga’s advice follows today declaration by the Lands Ministry that contractors who had been mandated to build the affordable housing units should resume job despite active court orders.
