Majority of Kenyans believes the country is headed to the wrong direction

Economic hardships and failure to fulfill the campaign promises are the main reasons as t why large number of Kenyans believe the country is in the wrong course.

A significant number of Kenyans (56 per cent believe that the direction  the country is heading in the wrong direction, 25 per cent believe the country is heading in the right direction, 14 per cent believe country is heading in neither wrong or right direction with 5 per cent don’t know. This is according to an Trends and Insights TIFA poll conducted between 24^th to 30^th June 2023. 

The opinion poll  released today afternoon at a Nairobi hotel conducted through Computer Assisted Telephone Interview CATI and which sampled 1530 respondents with a degree of confidence of 95 per cent unearthed reasons why a majority believe the country is heading in the wrong direction with some of those polled arguing increased economic hardships and failure to fulfill campaign promises as some of the major reasons why they think the country is heading in the wrong direction. 

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TIFA also covered  views about the country’s direction and the performance of the Kenya Kwanza government since it took over the reigns of power ten months ago. As with the 1^st Release,  the data collection was completed during the week that the National Assembly went through the final stages of reviewing and approving the Finance Bill and new budget, as well as the president’s endorsement of the same actions that were followed immediately by the price increases of all petroleum product which took effect on 1^st July , though in defiance of a High Court order issued in response to legal challenges to certain aspects of the process of the Bill’s enactment  and thus were not captured in this survey. Thus, while many Kenyans were clearly aware of and had formed opinions about key aspects of government economic policy, many of them had not yet taken effect.

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This is the second such national survey TIFA has conducted since last year’s election (the first being in March), which compares several findings on the same topics to show the extent to which Kenyans’ views have changed over this three month period.