Wondering

Once, an economist Adam Smith made a statement back in 18^th century, “No Society can be flourishing happy, of which greater part of its numbers are poor and miserable.”  This has been the situation in North Eastern Province of Kenya, especially in Garissa County, mostly Nomads, since my childhood as I grew up to experience ignorance, illiteracy and poverty.  I did, and do witness day by day as the poor get poorer and are unable to access daily basic needs and are unrepresented in the pursuit for basic human rights and democracy.  Many people in rural areas and urban centers are in agreement of what Adam Smith said to be more obvious today.  The contrast between the poor and the rich has been widening daily.  As of today, majority of Kenyans, especially in the North Eastern Province, bordering Somalia and Ethiopia, live on less than one Dollar a day, an amount that is earned and spent in less than a minute in wealthy nations.