- A new report released by infotrack has revealed that majority of Kenyans are convinced that the country is moving towards the wrong direction.
- The 62% Kenyans who vouched that the country was heeding in a misguided path, cited issues like the high cost of living, the high rates of unemployment and the surge in calamities like drought and poverty which the country has been struggling with lately.
- The survey incorporated all the 47 counties and the 8 regions, yielding the results that saw only 22% Kenyans admit that the country was progressing fairly well.
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An infotrack report released last Tuesday, now indicates that 62% of Kenyans are convinced that the country is trekking on a wrong path.
The report determined that the belief was as a result of some of the key issues including high cost of living, taxes and unemployment rates that the country is currently grappling with.
While others attributed their belief to other issues like indigent governance from leaders, bad politics, calamities such as drought and poverty, corruption, poor education quality, poor infrastructure and an uneven distribution of jobs, the report made it clear that Kenyans were seemingly beginning to lose hope in the welfare of their country.
The report came up amid a heated debate over the president’s aptitude to steer the country to higher heights alongside claims that he had failed to fulfil the promises he had captured in his manifesto during the campaign period.
The survey which draped all 8 regions in the nation, had 63% in the Coast saying that the country was moving towards a wrong path, 48% in North Eastern, 66% in Eastern, 52% in Central, 54% in Rift Valley, 66% in Western, 75% in Nyanza and 62% in Nairobi, all averaging to 62%. In ratio of age and gender, 63% of those who took part in in the survey were male citizens while 61% were women. Of these, 56% were Kenyans aged 18-26, 27-35 (63%), 36-45 (63%), 46-55 (61%) and over 55 at 61%.
However, 22% of Kenyans from the report are convinced that due to the fact that Ruto is a God-fearing man and that there is peace and harmony, the country is for sure moving on the right path. The state of the economy which seems to be growing, affordable cost of living, improvements in the education sector and the timely remittance of taxes were some other reasons which the survey’s respondents cited, as proof of their positive conviction. Of these, 23% were male and 20% were female.
Another 15% of Kenyans however, were not sure whether the country was progressing or not, while 2% were content that they did not know how the country was doing. Only 0.2% of never gave responses.
The survey was executed by one of the leading poll firms in the country in between February 21 to 24, filling in all the 47 counties and 8 regions of Kenya for the purpose of ensuring national inclusion. “The distribution of the survey sample across the regions was proportionately allocated, for the purposes of achieving national representativeness” read the report.
