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| Governor Wambora is likened to Tom Mboya visionwise |
So soon after his appointment as Chairman to the
Security and Foreign Affairs Committee in the Council of Governors, Embu
governor H.E. Martin Wambora is already considering how the opportunity could
optimally benefit the people of Embu. Being a visionary leader, he realizes
that investment in human resources is the best way to ensure that in future, there
shall be no shortage of highly educated professionals to provide labor and
entrepreneurship in Embu, and Kenya as a whole. How so?
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| Kirinyaga Governor, Anne Waiguru drew much attention at the Council of Governors Conference |
In economics, we have four major factors of production or economic resources, so to say: Land, Capital, Labor and Entrepreneurship. For land and capital to be gainfully employed, competent labor and entrepreneurship is requisite. The economy therefore needs a highly learned, exposed and experienced workforce to provide strategic, tactical and operational management skills now and in future; especially in future.
To that end, Governor Wambora is about to implement a
noble plan, similar to Tom Mboya’s “Operation Airlift Africa”, some 54 years
ago. According to an article in New
African Magazine dated 26th January, 2014, between 1959 and 1963, Kenya’s political icon, the late
Tom Mboya organized the airlifting of 770 young men and women from Kenya and
nine other East, Central, and Southern countries to go and study in the USA and
come back to shape the future of their countries.
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| Young Barack Obama, former US president, with his late father; a beneficiary of the program |
Airlifted to America aboard
specially chartered BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) airplanes, the
students were trained in the US to become everything from engineers and
economists to agronomists and civil servants. They were really preparing,
though, to become the future leaders of Kenya and fill positions in government
and industry that the British would soon vacate.
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| Some beneficiaries of Tom Mboya's Operation Airlift Africa |
Wambora’s initiative, possibly to
be dubbed ‘Ciiko Airlifts’, is likely
to be more effective as it will target a smaller population – Embu County. Beneficiaries
will be the currently unemployed first degree holders in Embu, willing to
pursue their Masters Degrees abroad then come back and serve their county, and country. That way,
the soft-spoken but highly intelligent leader will be sure that when he retires
in 2022, he will leave the county in competent hands - hands of visionary
professionals who will steer the county towards the achievement of its vision,
and keep the Wambora Legacy alive!
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| The Executive and Committee Chairpersons |
