Once @nationafrica carried a story. You can read it here. In short, what is in a question?
For Liberals Social Awareness is characterized not by conservative tendencies but liberal ones. They don’t mind filling a government form asking questions like if you are married or not, how many children one has, wealth declaration and if one files NHIF and NSSF returns of their employees. A conservative will find that intrusive as was with the Huduma Number which in some sense a lifestyle audit meant for conservatives of willing buyer willing seller even when they couldn’t bring themselves to account for their wealth.
Huduma Number some claimed was intrusive and with an agenda to embarrass looters by comparing them with their means to determine their lifestyle. In any case, who’s doing better than whom was not digital index sought as some have also suggested a digital database of NHIF while others are interested in a Lands digital database. But perplexing or not, Huduma Number is in the Freezer.
What we have heard so far is not alarming to democrats ,especially liberals, as is to republicans who fear historical gossip in contemporary but conventional evidence of entitlement and title occasioned by conversations they might have held among themselves.
What then is the problematic about lifestyle audits that control finds ownership a selective preference in revelation of possession a suitable approach to allow those who encroach into a public discernment of private concerns?
The lifestyle audit was not about massage parlors, where one drinks and such. But assessment of the socio-political and economic decorum in Kenya. It was a genuine inquiry that could have put an end to gossip or a one way conversation in which leaders debate their interests without public opinion.
What then is our business in the Socio-Political and Economic Decorum in the nation state? When and while having this discussion, public procurement of data, cases and studies ought to be encouraged to indulge primary data is discussing livelihoods and lifestyle . Otherwise ulisikia wapi?
Decorum does not require seven eyes to receive insights of courtesy when honesty and candor are to far to reach without falling into financial or basic needs insecurity. And since the government is an harmonious balance between the state and nation, prying eyes are not worth crying for in a lifestyle audit.
A lifestyle audit is such a weighty matter that any government ought not be crude when implementing or rude.
