This July 5th you can help change the destiny of Kenya

Dear Fellow Kenyan,

You probably hear about all the terrible things happening in Kenya these days, especially the selfish and corrupt leadership we seem to have. And maybe you care less, after all what can you possibly do to bring about change?

Actually you can do a lot. Much more than you ever imagined.

For starters you can help make a difference by taking a few minutes to carefully read this letter and then taking action. You, a single individual can make a great difference. If you have never done anything for Kenya before, let this be the first noble, selfless, patriotic thing you do for your motherland.

You must be hearing lots of the bad news that’s coming from Kenya these days. The truth is that the people have lost hope with the leadership we ourselves elected on that memorable day in December 2002. We voted out Kanu thinking that we had finally corrected things only to end up worse off than we were before. Another election looms and the bad news is that whoever we elect will do exactly the same thing Mwai Kibaki and Narc have done to us.

So what is the solution?

The solution is to correct the root causes of the leadership problems we have in Kenya today. History may be boring but unless we go back and trace the place where the country went off the road and took a wrong turn, we shall keep on being disappointed.

As many observers who were there at the time and historians will testify, things really took a turn for the worst on July 5th 1969. On that day a leading Kenyan politician, Tom Mboya was assassinated. This man had almost single-handedly been the most effective factor in fighting for the independence of Kenya. Many times the colonialists wished him dead, because many had believed that they would own Kenya forever. But alas, he ended up being murdered by one of his own. His assassination opened the floodgates for the following evils which haunt us to this day;

1) Continued land grabbing in Kenya by politically powerful individuals at the expense of ordinary powerless Kenyans.
2) This land grabbing culture later spread to the grabbing of other national resources and use of high office to do personal and private business, because the land-grabbing could not continue forever, it reached a point where virtually everything was grabbed.
3) Anybody who dared oppose this ruling class as they went about amassing great wealth was brutally killed. Mboya’s assassination opened the flood gates for other more brutal killings of gallant sons of Kenya like JM Kariuki and Robert Ouko amongst others.
4) It helped reaffirm a culture in Kenya where people seek to get rich by winning political office.
5) It created a culture where people seek to protect their ill-gotten gains by gaining political power. You must have many Kenyan politicians saying; “I am seeking political office to protect my wealth.”
6) It created a culture of tribalism in politics where today we see political parties that are just tribal organizations where alliances have to be made between various tribes to win the all-powerful presidency.

On July 5th, it will be 36 years since that gallant son of Kenya was brutally gunned down in the Nairobi streets in broad daylight. Some of those who were responsible for his killing are still walking the streets happily going about their business, they are all very wealthy individuals.

Our initiative starts with a simple step. We the people of Kenya want the government to tell us who killed Tom Mboya and why. Many in government today know the answer to this question and Kenyans are politically mature enough to be told NOW, who killed Mboya and why?

To help us in this noble campaign you need to do only two things;

1) Write a letter to leading newspapers and media houses in Kenya demanding that the government tell us who ordered Mboya’s killing and why. A man was actually charged and convicted and presumably hanged for the assassination but he kept on insisting that there was a “big man” involved, somebody who had ordered the killing. Who was this big man? And why was it necessary to murder Mboya? (we have posted the email addresses and P.O. Box addresses of some leading media house at the blog;
http://kumekucha.blogspot.com
Visit and get the email addresses. You will also find a lot of information on who Tom Mboya was and why his murder caused a turning point for the worst for the great nation of Kenya.
2) Forward this message by email and post to at least 5 other Kenyans.

We shall continue with this campaign until we get an answer. We must begin to take hold of the destiny of our own country and the best place to start is by beginning to correct where we went wrong in the past. Even if you do no want to do this for your own sake, maybe because you have some comfortable job or business somewhere where you are earning good money. If this is the case, then my appeal is that you do it for the sake of your children and grand children who even if they inherit a fortune from you may not be able to enjoy it in their own motherland if the current situation persists.

Fellow Kenyan our country is t an hour of crisis. You can do something to help save the situation. Grab this moment in history, take action.

Warm regards,
Your fellow patriotic Kenyan.


The story of Mboya continues in the next few days.

Email addresses of leading media houses in Kenya. (please participate and play your noble part in this campaign by posting to this blog or sending via email to umissedthis@yahoo.com, other email addresses. E.G. for KBC, KTN etc.


Nation mailbox: mailbox@nation.co.ke
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