Wake Up the ‘Middle Class’

It’s appalling the way the middle class is in a comfort zone not uttering a word to demand for their rights as one of the highest tax payers in the country. Income tax remains the highest revenue to the government yet the contributors of the same are not rising to demand for accountability for their money. It’s a shame to stay mum politicking from our houses fearing to soil our hands as long as we head to the bank by the end of the month for salary.

Why should any institution in this country stay corrupt? Why should any individual in any government institution be corrupt? Why should any individual in this country fail to receive quality services from the government due to its failure to provide the same and why should it fail to provide such services in the first place. Where are all these monies going to if the nurses and the lecturers are on strike and some children still learning under trees as if they are not part of this country? Are we still waiting for a poor child from my home village in Barding-Karemo to trade places with one in Nairobi for the coming national school form one placement simply because we cannot achieve equal and quality education for all in this country? Don’t you think it is time these affirmative narrative stop robbing some children of their rights simply because of failure of the government to put our taxes in the right places?

This normal should cease to be normal. It is not palatable that even an independent body like the electoral commission can take the country back to second election with the tax payer’s money simply because the office bearers fail to conduct a credible job especially for a nation that is already ailing in financial debt burden. It’s deafening to give credit and excuses to sub-standard job that compromises credibility and accountability due to few months in the office. As a tax payer, and for the good of the nation it is high time we redefine quality delivery instead of mere delivery of services.

I hardly can tell what my governor did with the financial allocations for my county neither can my sense capture transformative interventions that equates to ministry allocations. I believe that the middle income should start shouting and engage as non-partisan individuals in the verification and accountability process to ensure our resources are reflect delivery. This could probably curb inept, corrupt and chest thumping politician majority of whom delivery mediocre services to the people. Simple thing define developing nations and it will be great for the ‘middle class’ to wake up and contribute to this by rolling their sleeves. It is all about accountabilityto transform Africa into the Europe we want