Mwangi Kibathi has very intelligent piece about professionals in Kenya.The story is trending on social media and here is how he described accountant,parmacists,lawyers and other professionals in the country.
“The most highly rated professions in Kenya add very little value to this country. Instead of producing, they remain consumers of what their foreign counterparts have produced. Mechanical Engineers are just overrated Jua Kali mechanics, all they do is repair German and Italian machines and assemble Japanese cars. Actually, the few mechanical machines made in Kenya like posho mills and chaff cutters are work of semi illiterate mechanics in Kariobangi Light industries.
The Pharmacists are much worse, they are just shopkeepers wearing white dust coats and specializing in sale of medicine from India and South Africa….. and yes specializing in Mpesa too. You wonder why a country spends money to train shopkeepers in the university. Why do you need to score grade A in KCSE then spend six years in the university learning how to go to industrial area to buy cartons of medicine to sell at Westlands?
The biggest consumers are of course lawyers, the ‘overseas British citizens’ stuck in medieval Europe clothing- suits, wigs and Queen’s English. They will quote how ‘his Lordship’ ruled in a case of chicken thief in Birmingham in 1774 as if chicken stealing stopped then. They will wear a black suit because Lord Earling wore it in the House of Lords in 1465.
Less said about journalists and their fake accents, appetite for non-issues like Royal Weddings and oversize egos, the better
The only true practitioners of what they learn in the university are accountants and political scientists, they learn how to reap where they never sow and they do so well at work……….creating false impressions, manipulating figures and opinions and of course making their employers poorer”