End the political circus
The excitement over bananas and oranges seems to baffle me.
Offcourse my opinion on the current constitution was and remains that it should have been ammended as needed as it is no secret society and times are dynamic. It did not need an expensive exercise and a political circus to change it.
It seems that like Kenyans did when they voted this current band of robbers (Narc) into govt they believed every lie and tale they were told.
And am proud to say that 3 years and counting none of the promises made have been realised.
Instead Kenyans have witnessed what they thought had seen their demise in the days of Mo1 sexual scandals, looting of public coffers etc, tax payer funded holidays, drop in quality of life etc etc however it seems that each adminstration from Kenyatta's time wants to outdo the other in who will loot the most and increase kenyans poverty level even further.
For that goal I want to personally give props to the current govt they were not to be outdone I can only imagine the state we will be in 2007.
I would think that with our current experiences has come a certain level of maturity in what is expected of us as voters and responsible citizens of our country.
Instead of tosssing oranges and slipping on banana peels as if this will determine our lives without the simple understanding that it doesn't matter how good a constitution is if it isn't implemented than it is as good as having none.
The constitution dear Kenyans who are caught up in the wrangle and tough choices of will we be an orange state or banana republic will not make us economically viable citizens.
The politicians are happy to have you further their selfish ends because either way they win.
You and I are the biggest losers in all this.
Why instead of brandishing oranges and bananas at each other, bickering and carrying meaningless slogans don't we for once introduce what should be the focal point of our national debate the poverty that has rendered us able bodied men and women beggars in our own country.
What of your next meal?
What of your HIV retroviral cocktail?
What of your employment or business entrepreneurship?
What of your own and family's security?
What of your children's future?
What of your children's education?
What of Kenyan ability to compete in tech industry?
What of Kenya's R&D industry?
Why is common sense so far gone from us when it is clear in this war of bulls we the poor grass get trampled and killed all the time?
What of our responsibility not just to ourselves but our country ?
Perhaps Charles Dickens in his book Hard times sums my wonder at our gullibility as Kenyans in his own amazement of how a slob like Slackbridge gets the attention of men/women.
(It is lengthy but do bear)
........."As he stood there, trying to quench his fiery face with his drink of water, the comparision between the orator and the crowd of attentive faces turned towards him was extremely to his disadvantage. Judging him by Nature's evidence, he was above the mass in very little but the stage on which he stood. In many great respects he was essentially below them. He was not so honest, he was not so manly, he was not so good-humored;he substituted cunning for their simplicity, and passion for their safe solid sense. An ill-made, high shouldered man with lowering brows and his features crushed into an habitually sour expression, he contrasted most unfavourably, even in his mongrel dress, with the great body of his hearers in their plain working clothes. Strange as it always is to consider any assembly in the act of submissively resigning itself to the dreariness of some complacent person, lord or commoner whom three-fourths of it could, by no means, raise out of the slough of inanity of their own intellectual level, it was particularly affecting, to see this crowd of earnest faces, whose honesty in the main no competent observer free from bias could doubt, so agitated by a such a leader".
Years later I look at my people fooled by the likes of the typical greed-driven Kenyan politician and the energy wasted on agendas that benefit only the politician.
I guess it is true history will keep repeating itself and human beings will continue to err as they lack foresight to look back and see where many who did exactly what they are doing stumbled.
This is the tragedy of a sleeping giant as great yet powerless as Africa.
Offcourse my opinion on the current constitution was and remains that it should have been ammended as needed as it is no secret society and times are dynamic. It did not need an expensive exercise and a political circus to change it.
It seems that like Kenyans did when they voted this current band of robbers (Narc) into govt they believed every lie and tale they were told.
And am proud to say that 3 years and counting none of the promises made have been realised.
Instead Kenyans have witnessed what they thought had seen their demise in the days of Mo1 sexual scandals, looting of public coffers etc, tax payer funded holidays, drop in quality of life etc etc however it seems that each adminstration from Kenyatta's time wants to outdo the other in who will loot the most and increase kenyans poverty level even further.
For that goal I want to personally give props to the current govt they were not to be outdone I can only imagine the state we will be in 2007.
I would think that with our current experiences has come a certain level of maturity in what is expected of us as voters and responsible citizens of our country.
Instead of tosssing oranges and slipping on banana peels as if this will determine our lives without the simple understanding that it doesn't matter how good a constitution is if it isn't implemented than it is as good as having none.
The constitution dear Kenyans who are caught up in the wrangle and tough choices of will we be an orange state or banana republic will not make us economically viable citizens.
The politicians are happy to have you further their selfish ends because either way they win.
You and I are the biggest losers in all this.
Why instead of brandishing oranges and bananas at each other, bickering and carrying meaningless slogans don't we for once introduce what should be the focal point of our national debate the poverty that has rendered us able bodied men and women beggars in our own country.
What of your next meal?
What of your HIV retroviral cocktail?
What of your employment or business entrepreneurship?
What of your own and family's security?
What of your children's future?
What of your children's education?
What of Kenyan ability to compete in tech industry?
What of Kenya's R&D industry?
Why is common sense so far gone from us when it is clear in this war of bulls we the poor grass get trampled and killed all the time?
What of our responsibility not just to ourselves but our country ?
Perhaps Charles Dickens in his book Hard times sums my wonder at our gullibility as Kenyans in his own amazement of how a slob like Slackbridge gets the attention of men/women.
(It is lengthy but do bear)
........."As he stood there, trying to quench his fiery face with his drink of water, the comparision between the orator and the crowd of attentive faces turned towards him was extremely to his disadvantage. Judging him by Nature's evidence, he was above the mass in very little but the stage on which he stood. In many great respects he was essentially below them. He was not so honest, he was not so manly, he was not so good-humored;he substituted cunning for their simplicity, and passion for their safe solid sense. An ill-made, high shouldered man with lowering brows and his features crushed into an habitually sour expression, he contrasted most unfavourably, even in his mongrel dress, with the great body of his hearers in their plain working clothes. Strange as it always is to consider any assembly in the act of submissively resigning itself to the dreariness of some complacent person, lord or commoner whom three-fourths of it could, by no means, raise out of the slough of inanity of their own intellectual level, it was particularly affecting, to see this crowd of earnest faces, whose honesty in the main no competent observer free from bias could doubt, so agitated by a such a leader".
Years later I look at my people fooled by the likes of the typical greed-driven Kenyan politician and the energy wasted on agendas that benefit only the politician.
I guess it is true history will keep repeating itself and human beings will continue to err as they lack foresight to look back and see where many who did exactly what they are doing stumbled.
This is the tragedy of a sleeping giant as great yet powerless as Africa.
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