Most Kenyans believe country headed wrong direction – poll
By Maureen Kinyanjui |
The survey, conducted on October 9, 2024, involved interviews with 1,000 Kenyans across all 47 counties.
At least 73 per cent of Kenyans believe the country is moving in the wrong direction. This is according to a new survey by InfoTrak which was released on Friday.
Many of those surveyed pointed to issues like bad governance, high living costs, and corruption as key factors behind their pessimism.
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The 73 per cent is an increase from 50 per cent of Kenyans who believed the same in September.
According to the survey, only 11 per cent of respondents now feel the country is on the right track, a decline from 19 per cent in September.
"Nairobi is the least optimistic on the direction the country is headed," said Johvine Wanyingo, a researcher with InfoTrak.
The survey, conducted on October 9, 2024, involved interviews with 1,000 Kenyans across all 47 counties.
In a similar report released on June 6, 2024, 63 per cent of Kenyans believed the country was headed in the wrong direction in a report released by InfoTrak.
Some 19 per cent of the respondents thought the country was on the right track. Sixteen per cent thought the country was neither in the right nor wrong direction.
Only two per cent of Kenyans didn't have a stand on which way the country was headed.
The number of Kenyans thinking Kenya was headed in the wrong direction had increased by 10 per cent since September 2023.
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