APRM • SECOND COUNTRY REVIEW REPORT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA growth rates of 10% starting in 2012 through implementing an economic development programme that prioritizes key growth sectors of the economy. • Under the vision macroeconomic stability has largely been secured, with sound fiscal and monetary management, which has enabled the delivery of low inflation and withstand a number of vulnerabilities to the economy. Since 2010, the economy has expanded progressively, posting growth rates above 5%. 62. In sum, elements of the political and other elite appear to have finally recognized the need to work toward ensuring that the country moves away from the factors and forces that made the sad events of 2007/2008 possible, committing to a more just society up in arms against poverty, growing inequality, and material, institutional, and process corruption. On the other hand, persisting challenges relate to the lack of strategic vision of an inclusive nation among important segments of the same elite, the recurring role of political mobilized ethnicity in public life, the rising cost of governance and the slow pace of implementation of governmental and socio-economic reform, as well as increasing evidence of lack of capacity and negative competition for power at the local level. 63. A worrying trend in Kenya’s political terrain is the agitation, especially from a section of the opposition leadership, against the nascent constitutional commissions, in particular the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. This has the effect of undermining the faith of citizens in these institutions and the general compliance with the rule of law. | 71 |