- President Kibaki In His Madaraka Day Address To The Nation Today
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Today is Madaraka day but another Madaraka Day—June 1st 1969 was a very memorable day in the history of Kenya. It was then just 5 years since Kenyans had officially started running their own affairs without recourse to their previous colonial masters.
If you were sitting in Uhuru Park that morning waiting for the celebrations to begin you would not have failed to see the cabinet ministers arrive. One couple and family arriving for the celebrations would have stood out above the rest in your mind. That of the Minister for Economic Planning Hon Tom Mboya. His beautiful wife Pamela spotted dark glasses and they both held on to their young son and daughter. The sort of scene that would bring a smile to anybody's face and aptly captured on black and white film by an alert press cameraman.
If at that time you understood the kind of politics that was going on in Kenya then you would have known that this was no ordinary member of the cabinet. He was envied and feared by most members of the Kenyatta cabinet and already there had been one attempt on his life. Just a few months before a policeman supposed to be guarding his residence had come out of nowhere and opened fire on the back seat of his official Mercedes Benz. Luckily he was not in the car at that moment. Still, if you were able to look into the future you would know that barely a month later, this young intelligent cabinet minister full of life would be dead, felled by an assassin's bullet. He was 39 years old at the time of his brutal assassination in the streets of Nairobi in broad daylight. To date Kenyans have never been told who the "big man" who ordered that hit was.
In today's speech the president was very firm in saying that no Kenyan should expect to kill another Kenyan and continue to live in peace.
It would be a good thing if the Kibaki government proved this statement in actions by starting right at the top. To date the killers of former foreign affairs minister Robert Ouko continue to operate in the country peacefully and more powerful than ever. Some of those involved in the murder of JM Kariuki and Tom Mboya are also still alive and very wealthy today mainly as a result of getting away with murder. That's Kenya for you.
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“That’s Kenya for you”. I agree. I’m however confident that Kibaki was not inferring that his quest, going forward, is the leave-no-stones-unturned hunt for the killers of Mboya, JM, Ouko etc. His utterances are in line with his awakened political survival dictates in the wake of the Mungiki ‘severed heads’ syndrome. If his is not a late PR campaign, then he’s simply, and I must say reluctantly, taking credit for the seemingly high profile arrests (albeit release) of Mungiki political leaders. It’s all hogwash as we all will soon realize.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, it’s not too late for the millions of Kenyans who remain vigilant in their nightly sleep (some to the point of being aroused by the neighbors’ cat hunting for mice) to demand an end to the festering insecurity. All Kenyans suffering from perpetual sleep disorders and self inflicted insomnia must demand freedom from the shackles of Mungiki, carjackers, cattle rustlers and date rapists.
Other than that, I have no strong opinion on the matter.
No amount of talking will stop these rafians from beheading Kenyans. Kenya has all it needs to keep us and her border safe but all we lack if REAL LEADERSHIP. Forget about the tokenism being dolled out camouphlaged as growth. You can tel that to the birds as we remain hostage from the grip of our own countrymen whose main motive is to reap where they never sawed.
ReplyDeleteIt is a pitty to have a national holiday in this era and age people still gloriying days of yore as they rape the national coffers while the country is a flame. What business do you have calling yourself a leader when you subordinates have their heads severed for 'trophies'? The bleeding must stop and Mungiki must be stopped dead on their tracks otherwise he are slidding into REAL HELL.
How comw the Mungiki only rear their ugly heads around election time.
ReplyDeleteProud 'this tribe' Woman!
And by the way you can't fail to notice 'loud silence' on this Mungiki issue. Is it by design or default? Your guessis as good as mine.
ReplyDeletehow comes there is no matatus money extortions in other provinces and its only in the kikuyu areas? who would want to put fear into the kikuyu to show them that the current leaders can not protect them? it can only be someone who is not currently in parliament and they want to use the mungiki menace as a tool to persuade people to vote them in " vote us in and we shall put in security". Those arresting sitting members of parliament are being mislead to waste more time while the damage is being done. I dont think Kabogo would want to harm his own people... or michuki or any other leader in the affected areas. what would they gain out of it? If they were to do these murderous acts, the people automatically wont vote them in. they will see them as unable to protect them. I would suggest the security team to lay an ambush at night and they should do it undercover in all this affected areas and am sure they will arrest a gang of people around those early morning times. Let them move around in the bushes instead of open road... security is about being clever and swift and using intelligence other than shouting commands in public... am sure if they use their heads, they will get to the botom of the matter and one more thing, lets arrest any implicated leader... the top goverment leaders should have the balls to do it, dont fear losing friends if they are corrupt and murderers.
ReplyDeleteoh I forgot to add, when all these acts of hijacking a matatu and beheading people... where are the police patrols were told about?
ReplyDeleteChris, why dont u use your underdogs to get a list of mungiki leaders from an insider? am sure these gangs have brothers, sisters, friends etc
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