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SINGAPORE AND KENYA: DAY AND NIGHT

Kenya got its independence 1963 from the British colony, while Singapore got it two years in the month of August 9, 1965 from Malaysia after they had intense political differences which resulted to racial riots.

Standing on the mirror line reflecting on the two countries between Kenya and Singapore, Kenya is extremely behind Singapore in terms of development. 
Singapore hastily rose from third world country to first world country while Kenya still maintained the third world class. 
Recently, Kenya's President Dr. William Ruto, is full of comparison statements: between Kenya and Singapore.
Surprisingly, the phrase of boosting Kenya's world class has taken a beautiful twist where every politician is dreaming of Kenya to be futuristically the same level as Singapore. Pausing a bit, what's a dream? pondering on this; a dream literally means imaginary events while sleeping. 
Our politicians are forgetting the dogmatic saying that goes 'action speaks louder than words' of course people's reality is reversely mirrored to them.

These smart people are like thespians who would memorize, and master the play, such that on stage they personify every character in the play to make it be real to the live audience. 
In Kenya we are full of dreamers, rather than action doers. 
Singing Singapore, in rallies, fixing the word Singapore in every speech is not enough, but actions should take the lead.
 

How can Kenya be Singapore, when the future economist, engineers, doctors, lawyers, teachers not to name them all, have their dreams curtailed because of a subtle imbalance education system? How can Kenya be, while doctors and health care providers strike, and lecturers and teachers stage demos very often, Generational conflict inadvertently threatens majority?
 How can Kenya be Singapore yet the very preachers of the Singaporean doppelganger runs to the tribal cocoon ?
It is hard to take a stand against some of the statements made along the roads, if true they mean it, let them show to their fellow citizens the blueprints of their ideas and how they will put it to work.
Words are enough, actions are just like trees in the desert, lest theass conclude that our politicians are clowns whose minds are woven in the basking in the reflected glory (BIRGing). So sad.
It is time to game up, and let competition be competition.
By OKECH DON
THANK YOU FOR READING 
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