Ruto's 5yr plan for Kenya. 66 pages Solid plan full of numbers that reflect the work of 258 experts - most of them the best in their fields. Far cry from the joke that Raila presented that was heavy on generics.
Biggest departure - there will be barely any big ticket project - almost zero mega project unless someone comes with their own money and build it - Ruto is proposing to split the money small & medium business if not directly back to the people.
There will also be almost zero debt to be taken - revenues expected to double - and the budget to balance in 3yrs.
Overally Dr David Ndii fingerprints are all over in this radical plan that turns on it's head conventional ways that Kenya has been doing things - it almost revolutionary
Some of the highlights.
- Fix agriculture by investing 250B kshs in 5yrs - give farmers guarantee minimum returns linked to crop/livestock insurance - eliminate food imports.
- Introduce GMOs - first with BT Cotton.
- Provide 50B fund for SMES at every ward level - to provide cheap single digit loans.
- Fix manufacturing by focusing on small informal manufacturing - rather than large manufactures. Link manufacturing to agricluture.
- Increase mortgages from 30,000 to a million in 5yrs - by building affordable and standardized housings - gov will spend almost zero - providing land to develops who will build them and sell them cheaply.
- Electrify public transport - through public buses/motorbikes. Focus on mass transit.
- Energy - focus on charcoal/wood fuel - instead of imported LPG - build the charcoal value chain and decriminalize it.
- Increase fiber network from 10,000kms to 100,000kms. kenya is already ahead of many places including Europe - so this revolutionary - in Africa algeria has 110K out of 1 million kms of fiber - but Algeria is huge country. The fiber will be laid to the existing electricity network - meaning very little investment - just dragging the fiber alongside the electric cable.
- Fix tourism by focusing on low budget traveller/touriss and shifting kenya branding as high end tourist product.
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