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Submitted by MATHIU on Thu, 09/02/2012 - 10:28am

It is the 49th year since Kenya gained independence. Again, it is the year when we will hold the first election of its kind under a new constitution. A year that will see Kenyans elect governors and senators-history being written.

We might be busy celebrating a new leaf in the history of our land, but what is the sense of writing history without underlining the sufferings the Kenyans are suffering.

Since the disputed 2007/08 elections, we have been floored by blindness of war. We have been in a term of intellectual leadership menopause only acting the ways of unexploded grenades.

The public top dogs are terribly pampered while the rest of the Nation languishes in poverty, insecurity, famine, unemployment, diseases, and general hopelessness everyday.

The constitution has been subjected to atrocities and genocide by these top dogs and humanity dumped like a bad habit. As ET would put it, Kenya is a country apparently wallowing in a miasma of assorted maladies.

We have watched tragedies smother the nation, the government and its ilk has been busy spreading archaic stereotypes about our nation. The chilling experiences of sufferings of Kenyans and crippled economy all share the same thesis.

Too much power given to our leaders is harmful to the common Kenyan. This power must be considered the enemy of the people and the revolution that is most needed.

Cries for a Revolution

The power has allowed the members of provisional government to get arrested, newspapers seized, and printing shops closed and destroyed. We have always cried for a revolution.

In 2002, we ousted the KANU government with too much hope. This was possibly a blind view. In 2010, we voted massively for a new constitution only to be met with frustrations and disappointments.

What went of the revolution we expected? What I know about a revolution is that it is for everybody but what we have in Kenya is a handful of poor fools deceived by our scheming leaders.

The decrees and appeals of these fools simply add to the Museum of historical curiosities. The boisterous conduct of our leaders has filled the air with confused sounds all frenzied with defeat and dead expectations.

We have been subjected to a fusillade for advancement only to realize the hoax in it. We have always dreamt of the workers' and peasants' government, but this has only been a pipe-dream.

We have been grimacing with the pain of intellectual processes as we stagger up and down the dark streets of hope. Our frustrated generation, stern-faced and desperate come marching down the deserted streets of hope, liberty, and freedom among other high riding expectations.

There is no greater failure than the failure to gather the scattered humanity. We no longer hear of the voices that spoke of unity, voices that spoke of liberation, voices that spoke of brotherhood, voices that spoke of development, voices that spoke of equality, voices that advanced a common course, voices that fought a common enemy, voices that spoke of a promising future, voices that advocated for the respect of human rights and values.

We are surely at a disgrace. Our great nation is melting into a waste state. The infiltration of selfish and criminal minds into the heart of our leadership has killed the dreams of many if not all.

Let me spell out what genuine change would exactly mean. Genuine leadership means allowing people a reasonable magnitude of freedom, empowering the young generation- else baptised as the youth, stepping up social needs, devolve power and distribute resources in a manner that represents equality and equity.

It should also come with a package for respect of human rights and life.

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#1 Revolution?

Submitted by Lesley Agams (not verified) on Sat, 11/02/2012 - 10:46am.

Reading your piece it could have been about Nigeria. Revolution did not liberate the peasants and workers of the Soviet Union or Cuba or even China. Just put them under a different type of tyranny.

I was citing Kenya as a role model to my sons. How Kenya moved beyond the post election violence to make some needed reforms. How Obama's lead in denouciing them made them sit up and fix their shit after decades. How is was a break through. I'm no longer going to support you jsut because you're balck and Africa. You got to fix it. And they seem to be doing that. It is afterall a process.

Someone asked whether anyone is fighting for Nigeria? I ask is there anyone fighting for Kenya? The parallels are interesting.