One human life lost because of a political protest that was supossed to be peaceful is bad enough but today at least two people died. Two precious Kenyan lives. My sources on the ground say that the official figures are as usual much lower than the reality.
According to Reuters NAIROBI at least two protesters were shot dead in Kenya today as anti-government protests turned violent, with police opening fire to disperse demonstrators in the country’s third biggest city, Kisumu. One corpse had clear bullet wounds according to Red Cross workers on the ground.
The news of the deaths spread like wildfire and the reaction of the usually emotionall charged good people of Kisumu was very predictable. Police opened fire before using tear gas and water cannons to quell the protests.
If you are surprised you shouldn't be. Because this is Kenyan politics where grandstanding and daring your opponent is normal and you never give an inch lest you be labelled weak. You see the electorate abhor weak politicians. In fact Kenyan voters can forget the worst sin by any politician but NOT that of cowardice. Just ask Kalonzo Musyoka how long and hard he has been working to shrug off that image in vain.
But who suffers in all this? Who takes the brunt of the contest when two African elephants fight? The grass naturally. And today the grass people of Kenya have suffered greatly. Remember that most times people who are killed or badly injured are the innocent. The participants usually come prepared with exit routes and plans all mapped out well in advance. So spare a thought for that poor dad and bread winner whose kids are waiting at home but may not realize that they will never see them again.
The fortunate ones are the dads who will go home empty-handed to a family that will sleep hungry tonight. All because it was impossible for them to do what they do every day to earn money in their miserable hand to mouth existence.
So who is to blame?
Both sides of the divide are WRONG in this IEBC-must-go issue.
CORD has not exhausted other avenues of sending the IEBC commissioners home. Indeed there are many other more effective ways of forcing the JUBILEE government to the negotiation table. Clearly Raila Odinga has never heard of Mahatma Gandhi.
JUBILEE are wrong in gleefully asking CORD to use parliament knowing very well that they dominate the house in numbers and any motion by CORD will be dead in the water before it even starts.
This is NOT news and neither is it rocket science.
Now I have a question for all those die-hard supporters of either side about to go ballistic on me. What if the tables were turned and CORD was in power? Would they be comfortable with JUBILEE protests, peaceful or otherwise?
Bottom line ALL politicians in Kenya are exactly the same. Wanainchi get out of your stinking tribal pits and realize that what we do in every election is replace one devil with another.
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Yes, Kenya is a fast-failing country in deep denial.
Granted the national rot did not start with the dynamically incompetent duo presently oiling the wheels to self-destruction.
Since her flag independence in 1963, Kenya has never had a LEADER. The three tribalists rulers before Uhuru and Ruto are defined by bigotry, insecurity and spinelessness respectively.
All the malaise afflicting Kenya are traceable to acute lack of TRUE LEADERSHIP.
Of all the sectors, education has been hit hardest by the toxic effects of the dearth of wholesome leadership.
Sexually and tribally induced degrees
In a country where fraudulent past is laundered and packaged into celebrity hustling culture one can fail to see parents selling their souls to the devil to buy exams for their kids. What is more, the same parents shamelessly offer a metre wide diameter of smile on cameras celebrating such fraud following release of results.
Take it a step further and our hitherto citadels of academic excellence have been turned into intellectual brothels churning out sexually and tribally induced degrees.
If you can't join the dots here is a preview of where cluelessness has permanent home. Just like the NYS scam was authored when its budget was exponentially increased to obscene levels within one year without expanding the capacity to utilise the funds, the universities were thoughtlessly expanded with no commensurate resource to sustain them.
Then enter the real elephant in the national house, parallel degree program. Even Kisii Univerity outdid itself laundering pass degrees for first class after rudimentary one year crash post-graduation program.
What is more, each university must be destructively led by a local and the few not fitting that template always in turmoil as evident at University of Eldoret.
Why my bile at the university, you may ask?
Am mean, I make medicine sick
Well, because of political expediency (read country on fraudulent auto pilot), Kenya is destroying her hitherto potent asses in the name of human capital. Soon the time bomb that are the quacks graduating as doctors (you don't fail module II milk cows) will leave our morgues overflowing.
Am not shouting fire in a crowded theatre but simply refusing to join the national queue of militant deniers.
What a shame to have a country thriveg in cheap celebrity culture worshipping fraud and hustling vice? Add to the rule by an insecure elite whose modus operandi is exclusively defined by hell-for-leather hubris hurtling along a super highway paved in golden self-destructive marbles.
To paraphrase the late Muhammad Ali, THE GREATEST, among regime apologists my punches on the clueless Tom and Jerry duo last week must have amounted to murdering a rock, injuring a stone and hospitalising a brick. I must be so mean I make your medicine sick.
More sweet lies and obtuse propaganda please!
