A future with hope, a future of prosperity and a future of significance can only be built by a deep sense of purpose and will-power for the country that will catapult it to the next level. It begins with the restructuring and resetting of the mind where we assess our successes and shortfalls as Kenyan citizens and as a country in order to refocus and restrategize our goals and objectives as a nation. Creating a vision that is beyond our generation and forging a nation premised on stability, development and civic responsibility.
Kenya as a nation has grown in great strides and made major achievements on the springboard of development under President Uhuru Kenyatta. Development that first started out as a an imagination, a thought on what seemed impossible to be possible. The country’s Standard Gauge Railway, SGR one undertaking that started out of a though and it became a goal before it was put into paper and finally implemented in the physical. Ten years ago, It would sound too ambitious for Kenyans to believe that they would be enjoying a safe and efficient rail transport with an approximately 6hour difference behtween Mombasa and Nairobi.
Again, home ownership in the city had appeared to be a daunting task. It was unthinkable to believe that Kenyans would become home owners in the heart of the city. Nevertheless, Kenya through the Big Four Agenda has opened up the minds of many as it has created opportunities for further innovation and invention out of the opportunities that have arose out of the projects. Recently President Uhuru Kenyatta urged Kenyans and especially the youth to ‘exploit the opportunities and evade the danger. The Big Four Agenda was first an imagination that started over in the mind before it was implemented. The construction of the Konza Technology City is also another project that is still under implementation with potential fo3rd greater grwoth and innovation.
As the country anticipates for more and more, there is a lot to learn and tap into with an imaginative mind in order to create possibilities. Currently, it is unthinkable to picture rail service within the city’s Central Business District, CBD. To have a railway that would allow for intergration of the BRT and other public transport among others. But the reality is that this a Sh28 billion project whose plans are already underway and it all started with a reimagination of a better Kenya where our founding fathers would be delight with only if they knew how far the country has progressed.
However, this is not enough as we need to think bigger and better. We need to reinvent and innovate as has been demonstrated when the epidemic struck the country. It is evident that as citizens we have the capability and capacity to grow and think beyond our wildest dreams for the nation we want to live in and create for our future generations that starts from our children. Remember the world is changing abd we must adapt to its changes. The good thing is even children are reimagining and remodeling what is at hand and making it better for themselves.
In similar light, in order to be true to self, we must recognize our shortfalls as a country from the different levels including as as individuals, as leaders, as communities and as a people who want the best for each other. We must look at ourselves in retrospect and ask ourselves the tough questions and why they are seemingly tough to us. Is it corruption? Is it tribalism or even nepotism? Is it the leadership at different levels?; or our irresponsibility as citizens? The point being that we all have an obligation and a role to play as Kenyan citizens. We are all meant to forge a future by tapping into the opportunities available and having foresight with the current trends that are emerging in the country and in the world. Foresight that began with our founding fathers who used their imagination and saw the possibilities of freedom and a land of their own.
