No government can solve all of Nigeria’s issues – Kenyatta claims

• Former president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta has urged Nigerians to vote for someone who will continue from where Buhari stops
• He asserted that no government can solve all Nigerian problem
• Kenyatta added that continuity and succession planning were crucial to Nigeria development

Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, a former president of Kenya has said that no single administration will be able to solve all of Nigeria’s problems during its constitutionally prescribed term limit.

Kenyatta said the issue with many African governments was the propensity to waste time and effort trying to create something that someone else had already created in his recent keynote address at the State House, Abuja, venue for the 2022 edition of the Ministerial Performance Review Retreat.

The former Kenyan president stated in his speech that continuity and succession planning were crucial to development because the problems could not be solved by a single administration and used his own experience as an example.

In his remarks, President Muhammadu Buhari claimed that the annual performance review process his administration instituted had assisted the government in trying to establish the proper priorities.

Kenyatta talked about his country’s struggles to fulfill development promises and how he used the Presidential Delivery Unit (PDU) to carry out the policies of his administration. Meanwhile, Kenyatta acknowledged that the challenges faced by African nations in various facets of nationhood were similar.

He claimed that the problems were frequently made worse by citizens’ lack of patience, which was exacerbated by a lack of funding and a short time frame. To African leaders facing difficulties like insecurity, terrorism, pandemics, and other setbacks, the former Kenyan leader offered solutions.

Kenyatta stated, “The first, is being focused. The ability to be able to focus on what the critical issues are – we cannot deliver on everything, but we can be focused to be able to target our intervention to those areas that most affect our people, the greatest immediate impacts, and, also, that lays the foundation for a stronger nation, and prosperity tomorrow.

“The second, I believe, is the realization of (the fact that) the challenges we face are not challenges that can be completed by any one single administration. So, therefore, ultimately, the issue of continuity and succession planning is also very critical.”

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According to Kenyatta, his Presidential Delivery Unit (PDU), which was part of the presidency and tasked with ensuring that the government delivered on priority areas, was crucial to many of the successes his administration achieved during its first five years in office. He urged Nigerians to support the Buhari administration’s development agenda by electing a successor who would pick up where he left off.

Kenyatta stated, “I heard very keenly when the secretary to the federal cabinet was speaking, and there is one thing that I will encourage; it is that as this administration winds down, let us not suffer the traditional.

“It is like an all-African problem, that when one administration winds down, the next one thinks whatever was done, we can do better. And you start trying to imagine ways of reinventing the wheel – the wheel can only be invented once. We need to begin to institutionalize these practices if we ever hope to deliver on our promises.”

He emphasized that no single administration had the power to deal with all the issues that any African nation faced and that each administration should build on the foundation that had been set by the one before it.

“Therefore, institutionalizing and learning lessons and not repeating mistakes is part of our journey to transform this continent, but if we become people, who adopt start-stop policies, as, unfortunately, many have done in the past, we will never fully achieve the socio-economic agenda that we set for ourselves,” he said.

In order to unbiasedly evaluate his administration’s commitments to fulfilling the promises made to Nigerians, Buhari made reference to the contributions of the peer-review mechanism and self-appraisal system put in place by his government.

He said, “I am glad to note that we have sustained this yearly stock-taking innovative initiatives introduced in 2019 by holding three consecutive performance review retreats in 2020, 2021, and 2022, respectively. This has helped us to clearly identify what we have done, what needs to be done, and how best to get it done.”

Meanwhile, Kenya Airways pilots continued their strike for a second day on Sunday, forcing the airline to cancel more flights and threatening anyone who joined them with disciplinary action.

The Kenya Airline Pilots Association went on strike, and as a result, thousands of passengers were left stranded. The association had earlier claimed that none of its members Kenya Airways flights had left Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after 6:00 am (0300 GMT) on Saturday.

In defiance of a court order prohibiting industrial action, the pilots announced the strike but did not specify how long it would last. The airline’s managing director and CEO, Allan Kilavuka, pleaded with the 10% of the workforce who are in protest to report to work by 10:30 am on Sunday.

“Failure to do so will lead to immediate disciplinary action,” he warned.

The largest airline in Africa, which links many nations to Europe and Asia and is partially owned by the government and Air France-KLM, is currently experiencing difficult times, including years of losses.

In response, the Kenya Aviation Workers Union declared that ground staff would also go on strike on Saturday starting at 2:00 p.m. in a separate, long-running pay-related dispute with the Kenya Airports Authority.

The KAA insisted, however, that “staff have reported for duty and operations at all our airports are normal” as of late Saturday. KAWU representatives did not return calls from AFP.

According to the airline, the pilots’ strike has disrupted the plans of over 9,000 passengers, who showed up at the Nairobi airport on Sunday only to learn that their flights had been canceled.

“I came here at around 5:25 in the morning… but I have been informed that the flight has been canceled,” passenger Erick Muhanda, who was due to travel to South Africa’s port city of Cape Town, told broadcaster Citizen TV.

“It’s quite inconveniencing,” he said.

The pilots are requesting that all salaries that were stopped during the Covid-19 pandemic be paid as well as the reinstatement of provident fund contributions.

The strike was put to an end on Monday when the airline was granted a court injunction, but a 400-member KALPA official told AFP that the pilots “were acting within the provisions of the law” and that they had not yet received a court order.

If the pilots carried out their plans, the airline warned that the strike would endanger its ability to recover, estimating daily losses to be $2.5 million.