09/07/2006
GRANTS
WECHE MOKADHO
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THE PRESIDENCY AND THE LUO INTERESTS
I would like to begin that as a Kenyan, I do not subscribe to any ethnocentric politics. This is by Choice. Though I must confess that my Suba heritage BAganda Origins, my grand father Kiboyye having been exiled from the BAganda Kingdom after Killing KAbaka Junju, around the 1780s, might leave me no room for maneuver. However politically, I have always supported Raila's Position in Many issues. [I also support other like minded politicians]. My point of departure was when he influenced the whole country to vote Kibaki. I don’t have a problem with Kibaki, save for the fact that he is a conservative. His rule was slated to protect the status quo. His rule was slated to celebrate the old. We all knew that he is a conservative, yet our euphoria for change even blinded the liberals.
Be they as they may, it is President Kibaki who is ruling, and he has a mandate to take us up to 2007. Thereafter, Kenyans have a choice. If I will be alive and Raila will be contesting, I will vote for him. Not because he is a Luo. I will vote for him because he exemplifies change and progressivism more than any other politician alive in Kenya today. He is also in touch with the masses. His contributions to the Kenyan Public are also immense. Did you know that not voting KANU in the last election was the best that has happened to Kenya in a long time. It does not matter that it wa Kibaki, a conservative who was voted. We now have a better chance of rewriting our destiny as a nation. Secondly, Raila has been a part of the fighters who have so molded the new democratic space we now enjoying the country. Issues like the Constituency Development Fund, which are revolutionizing the meaning of Democracy and Development in Kenya as a part of these new dispensations. His sacrifices, and the sacrifices of the many other people should not be wished away.
For the Luos who are too ethnocentric to see Raila the nationalist, shame on you. Personally, I would be too happy if Raila took up the issues of Integration [the rainbow phenomena], economic empowerment of the masses, and Kenya as a regional economic power house through adopting policies that induces the small sector production inertia. It is not enough for Kenya to host foreign investors who provide employment opprtunities. Kenyans need to own the means of production.
Raila also need to touch base with the true liberals. He should support Land redistribution at the Coast. He should Support the settlement of the squatter issue every where else. He should fight for the Development of Infrastructures in Nyanza, North Eastern Kenya, among other regions. He needs to project his voice on the fight against AIDS/HIV. He needs to find a common ground with the majority of Kenyans. He needs to fight for the
coffee farmer, sugar cane farmer, the livestock person...
Should he not contest, he should build support for Either Wangari Maathai or Anyang Nyongo. These two are real liberals. Let the Luos Know that these two can protect there interests better than all the other. Joe Khamisi and Kivutha Kibwana are other people who can make a difference in this country. They are liberals who are failing to project their voices nationally. Other wise he should support Kibaki for a second term. Kalonzo Musyoka, and Mudavadi, realistically are not any better than Kibaki in as far as benefiting the Luo is concerned. What do they stand for really? At least I know what Kibaki stands for. His economics is more of supply side economics sided in a country that seriously requires Keynesian Economics. Supply sided economics only benefits the foreign investor at the expense of indigenous growth. He has also shown that he has disdain for an egalitarian society. Otherwise He would have himself fought to have the MPs earn a salary that reflects the Kenyan Economic reality. The salary disparity between the Judges and the Magistrates should have been narrowed by now. He should not have created a serious disparity between the Senior and the other cadre of staff in the Universities. In Short he should have by now implemented a harmonized remuneration for all the government workers. But that is not him. At least we know that, and his policies might just encourage foreign investment anyway. He also works with liberals like Anyang Nyongo very well. What do you think Kalonzo and Mudavadi Stands for? By the way is Misikari Kombo or Ngilu any better.
Should we give them a benefit of doubt until the early 2007.
My candidates in order of prefrence.
1 Raila Odinga.
2.Wangari Maathai
3.Anyan'g Nyongo
4.Mwai Kibaki
5.Kivutha KIbwana
Kiboyye Yogo
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