#1 Most Marketable Course in Kenya

Sometimes back, I was asked by a good friend of mine what course she should take, now that she has finished High School. I’m a strong believer that you can be what you want to be if you work hard on it.

However, I came to realize that very few people in this country finish high School knowing what they want to do. Some career talks don’t help and at some point they are not taken seriously as they don’t have a step by step approach.

Well I did my research, and for any business to succeed in this century, it will have to embrace technology. ICT professionals will be in a better position, in fact, I dare say that ICT is a flagship course (something that any professional in any field should have) that will be required for businesses to remain relevant to customer needs.

Now, if you are in ICT SAP accreditation is paramount. Here is why,

There is a gap in SAP accredited professionals in the Kenyan market. Currently 70% of World platforms run on SAP. At least 10,000 professionals are needed annually yet Kenya produces less than 1 per cent of the needed workforce despite many local companies running on their systems. This creates the need for industries to employ expatriates, a substantive cost to the business.

To develop, Kenya will need to churn out more people with high-end skills. With a bigger skills capacity Kenya's economy will thrive as skills will not only be consumed internally but will be exported globally. Today, knowledge export is one of the thriving businesses in the outsourcing sector.

This is what ICT Board is advising Kenyans. Take note, Kenya needs a whooping 10,000 professionals every year. Companies are turning to expatriates for excellence.

As you consider taking such a course, remember that businesses don’t need SAP accredited graduates they need SAP accredited excellent graduates.

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Is 147 Really Not Just a Number?

Kenyans, we have been invaded by an ideology that seeks to disintegrate the Republic of Kenya. It attacks the very core of our belief as a nation. If we do not do anything, we stand a chance of ceasing our independence, beliefs, rights, and I dare say our very existence. The al shabaab agenda is to take over our endeared Muslim religion, they are committed to spreading their barbaric religious principles throughout this nation.

And we have a choice: we can allow them do continue breeding within us or we can flash them out from the dungeons of family ties, cultural, or religious sympathy. We must strip their barbaric principle naked and parade it in the streets of our minds for everyone to see as it treads to its inevitable destruction.

The very existence of our nation depends on our resolve to fight. So now I call upon you to join me in the fight. A fight that does not require government support, a fight that will not be fought with guns and bombs.  I urge you to join me in providing a new Kenyan narrative. A narrative that seeks to establish the true essence of a patriotic Kenyan. The frills of this narrative have been perpetuated by our forefathers in the fight for the independence of this nation and by our fathers to give us a new constitution. And we must use the narrative of patriotism and commitment to defend this nation.

We must be ready and willing to play our role in securing this nation. We must be ready to pick up arms when we are called upon to do so. We must be ready to sacrifice our time, resources, and even lives when duty calls. So, are we ready and willing to build a wall if that’s what it takes to defend this nation? Are we ready to persevere and withstand major inconvenience in our business transactions if that is what it takes? Are we bold enough to break all cultural values, and family ties to report our friends or family who have disappeared?

If we really mean #147NotJustANumber then we will join the clarion call and sacrifice our comforts in order to win this war. This is not a debate about the end justifying the means but rather a fight by all means necessary.

What Price are You Willing to Pay to End the Al Shabaab Menace?

Its only two weeks since the Garissa terrorist attack. The stories recounted by the survivors are chilling. Even more chilling are the stories narrated by the loved ones left behind by the fallen souls. The stories of commitment to education and integration. Some students were afraid to go to Garissa university college. But the promise of peaceful coexistence and integration lured them. Some even declared that if their fate is to die in Garissa then they will die in Garissa. Such was the commitment of those kids to their success. Success in education and life.

They paid the ultimate price for their commitment. So my question is, what price are we willing to pay to end the Al Shabaab menace? Is being stopped for several hours at check point the price you are willing pay? Is being rounded up in Eastleigh and having our houses checked the price we are willing to pay? Is closing the Dadaab camp and probably risking good international relations the price we are willing to pay? Is standing up against the popular views a price we are willing to pay? Is losing several millions in lost business due to closed institution a price we are willing to pay?

What price is greater than losing 147 lives? Are we waiting for the next attack where the leader of the attackers will be a refugee from Dadaab for us to accept its closure? Are we waiting for hard evidence that an attack in Nairobi Chapel or Citam on December 2015 was paid through a certain hawala in September of the same year, for us to believe in 2016 that hawalas are being used by our enemies?

It has taken 147 lives in a university college for leaders in NER to admit that the enemy is within the community. The government has been claiming that the enemy is within, that security starts with you, but we all thought it goes to show inefficiency in government. But I am convinced that all these measures are aimed at securing us from the enemy within. Could it be that its true mpeketoni was internally planned and executed?

Before you open your mouth or may be start tweeting and facebooking, just ask yourself, what price are you willing to pay to secure the nation. Security is our responsibility. I am willing to pay any price but lose another life. So if the government wants to close the border let it close, if it wants to close dadaab let it close, if it wants to close hawalas let it close; if it wants to come to my community and conduct a thorough search like the one in Eastleigh, let it come and do it; if they want me to stop for hours to be searched let it do it!!! All these are cheap prices to pay to secure our nation!!! There are those who have paid the ultimate price for it and if I do not pay my price another life might just be lost.

Securing this nation will come at a price. Every one of us will have to pay that price. Those who refuse to pay the price now will only cost us lives later. So the questions stands, what price are you willing to pay?