This makes me sick to my stomach.
Something happened in Nairobi on Friday that made me cringe with shame. I watched with dismay as our President and Prime Minister took a tongue lashing from the donors, led by Lidner and Renneberger, over the corrupt tendencies brazenly creeping up in government departments. But what stunned me more than anything was the temerity of the President to ask for aid within the same week that The Daily Nation listed six mega scandals involving the swindling of billions of shillings. Imagine what the donors must have been thinking of our leaders. And did you see the flashy cars they came in to beg? Sometimes it shames me to be led by such idiots.
About a year ago I lamented, right here on Kumekucha, the fact that we Africans have chosen to remain at a very elemental level when it comes to administering ourselves and conducting our affairs with posterity in mind. How can it be that so many years after independence we still can't feed a population of less than fifty million? What's gonna happen when we are seventy or one hundred million? How long do we intend to go down on our knees to Westerners after mismanaging our resources? To be blunt, how long will we remain the white man's burden?
I have been vociferously opposed to the constant watchman role played by the foreigners in my country. I've always seen what they do as a way of telling us that we are not equal to the task of governing ourselves. Today I have to swallow my pride and say that as long as we are led by this group of fossils, we need the donors and the foreign governments with leverage to plant a foot firmly on the neck of the Kibaki-Raila administration. These two men are leading the most corrupt government in history of Kenya.
I'm well aware of the fact that this week will be dominated by the Obama events in Washington D.C., where our corrupt government has sent Wetangula and others. It would have been nice if they had gone there to honor a man whose ideals inspire what's going on in Kenya. The shame is that everything Obama stands for, our government sneers upon. It wold have been better if Wetangula had led this delegation to the inauguration of Hugo Chavez.
The good news is that we will stop being the white man's burden by 2012. The way to do it is to elect a man of integrity, one who has mingled with white thinking and knows the psychology behind action, one who knows how to get things done, and who will make the nation's people proud to be called Kenyan again.
We can elect such a man.
We must elect him in 2012 or forever hold our...
Sunday, January 18, 2009
The Price of Cheap, Tribal Political Expediency
As Obama prepares to seal history with his inauguration, Kenyan leaders are left EXPOSED for the lies they excel in selling their people and the world. We have had three presidents whose modus operandi betrays all tenets of objectivity and staying on message leave alone living to actualize the same.
Political expediency and ethnic considerations are singular ingredients defining both past and present regimes. All the accolades we throw Obama’s are typical of Kenyans’ fraudulent ways to gain acceptance and be associated with ideas they never intend to practice.
Obama’s campaign was premised on hope and all his actions so far remain true to those ideals. Mouthing platitudes in one gift we have a plenty these shored of ours. We were the most hopeful country in the world at the beginning of 2003 when Kibaki came firing on all deceptive cylinders. No sooner had ecstatic Kenyans shouted FLEECING than the true gate keepers re-invented their DNA and emerged with the hose pipes to extinguish our national dream.
The present corruption CRAZE is all traceable to that empty drive to fight the vice. In five years, the fruit of corruption has proved not only sumptuous but also irresistibly. The mad race to auction any remaining valuable within Kenyan borders must be completed within the next 48 months.
The moral high ground to fight corruption was lost ages ago when Anglo Leasing became the defining scandal. Add to acute lack of leadership from top understand why every minister is using tried and tested Asians connections to raid their dockets for any valuables.
The present spate of mega corruptions fall perfectly well in Kenya’s rotten template where acrid smell of grand fraud brewed in the seclusion of boardrooms hit our noses just after elections. The present OFFICIAL ROBBERS had the right signal when the king of impunity chose to stick to his smelly confidants after cosmetic laundering and predictable clearance by other equally gullible arms of State.
Conning God
The message was clear: CORRUPTION PAYS HANDSOMELY for the industrious Kenyan. The risk is no more than contempt for those with unfortunate DNA and the shame to distract entrepreneurs.
What do you make of a President shamelessly cheapens such basic laws as mandatory retirement age for civil servants. Security in numbers (hata wewe) remains the cheap mental justification for all these scandal as ministers outdo each other in their schemes to milk cow Kenya.
We can fool ourselves all the mush we want but nobody outside our borders will buy our crap. Our deceptive gimmick to declare Obama holiday has been exposed for what it was. All we have to show for it is the loud embarrassment gracing the faces of pretenders. It amounts to dancing yourself lame to a broken record before the real melody begins.
As creative apologists to the present regime shamelessly spread the embarrassment along, the gate keepers are busy taking over Kenya. In the meantime the national hemorrhage continues as tribal leaders open the big national veins in search of gems. It is all about character, stupid.
Only in Kenya can you find leaders scandalizing God by extending the high school salvation gimmicks to the national arena. Soon God may as well call their bluff. No amount of pretense in re-inventing the wheel will wash any of our deceptive traits.
Political expediency and ethnic considerations are singular ingredients defining both past and present regimes. All the accolades we throw Obama’s are typical of Kenyans’ fraudulent ways to gain acceptance and be associated with ideas they never intend to practice.
Obama’s campaign was premised on hope and all his actions so far remain true to those ideals. Mouthing platitudes in one gift we have a plenty these shored of ours. We were the most hopeful country in the world at the beginning of 2003 when Kibaki came firing on all deceptive cylinders. No sooner had ecstatic Kenyans shouted FLEECING than the true gate keepers re-invented their DNA and emerged with the hose pipes to extinguish our national dream.
The present corruption CRAZE is all traceable to that empty drive to fight the vice. In five years, the fruit of corruption has proved not only sumptuous but also irresistibly. The mad race to auction any remaining valuable within Kenyan borders must be completed within the next 48 months.
The moral high ground to fight corruption was lost ages ago when Anglo Leasing became the defining scandal. Add to acute lack of leadership from top understand why every minister is using tried and tested Asians connections to raid their dockets for any valuables.
The present spate of mega corruptions fall perfectly well in Kenya’s rotten template where acrid smell of grand fraud brewed in the seclusion of boardrooms hit our noses just after elections. The present OFFICIAL ROBBERS had the right signal when the king of impunity chose to stick to his smelly confidants after cosmetic laundering and predictable clearance by other equally gullible arms of State.
Conning God
The message was clear: CORRUPTION PAYS HANDSOMELY for the industrious Kenyan. The risk is no more than contempt for those with unfortunate DNA and the shame to distract entrepreneurs.
What do you make of a President shamelessly cheapens such basic laws as mandatory retirement age for civil servants. Security in numbers (hata wewe) remains the cheap mental justification for all these scandal as ministers outdo each other in their schemes to milk cow Kenya.
We can fool ourselves all the mush we want but nobody outside our borders will buy our crap. Our deceptive gimmick to declare Obama holiday has been exposed for what it was. All we have to show for it is the loud embarrassment gracing the faces of pretenders. It amounts to dancing yourself lame to a broken record before the real melody begins.
As creative apologists to the present regime shamelessly spread the embarrassment along, the gate keepers are busy taking over Kenya. In the meantime the national hemorrhage continues as tribal leaders open the big national veins in search of gems. It is all about character, stupid.
Only in Kenya can you find leaders scandalizing God by extending the high school salvation gimmicks to the national arena. Soon God may as well call their bluff. No amount of pretense in re-inventing the wheel will wash any of our deceptive traits.
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