re: Mining in Kenya

Oketch,

Wanyee and a lot of Kenyans, myself included, have been fighting Tiomin Resources Inc. of Canada to prevent them from stealing our titanium at Kwale. That should show you that your concerns about some conspiracies based on ethnicity cannot be more far-fetched.

For those whose eyes have been opened, the struggle is to get wabepari out of Kenya, be it in tea, pyrethrum, flowers, pineapples, rice, coffee, tourism, mining or fishing. These are our resources. These are the sources of wealth. And it is at the point of extraction of these resources that exploitation,oppression, subjugation, environmental degradation and economic impoverishment takes place.

The issue really is about ownership of the means of production. Once you give away the means of production, whatever remains is merely slave labor for our people. Our concern for the destruction of wetlands and plunder of natural resources has nothing to do with the parochial world-views of Nyanza's so-called ethnic philosophers.

Kenya and Africa is colonized.

A new anti-imperialist movement is emerging in Kenya, and it is the one which is going to rescue Kenya from imminent socio-economic and ecological collapse--not ethnic philosophers.The yoke of subjugation is wiping people off, while our leaders are too quick to pocket a few pieces of silver and then kneel before foreigners to rape our land and reap profits while poverty escalates.

Again I say, Shame on Nyanza MPs wherever they are!. May the curse of the oppressed befall them, as they eat while people starve. May Ramogi's spirit strike vengeance on them for they have taken the people in disregard, and sold ancestral land to Wasigu. What a bunch of traitors these are. I spit in contempt!

But let me tell you and your small cohort of self-serving elite who use tribalism to line your pockets while the people suffer; this project by the Dominion Farms is your worst nightmare. It has exposed all of you for all your intellectual deficiencies, hypocrisy and lack of ideological coherence. I bet many of you and your so-called MPs can't even define the word "development".

You can dare say in front of the whole world in the year 2007 that an important ecosystem like Yala wetland (the largest wetland in Kenya) is "a mere bush"? This project has shown that the whole lot of you do not know what you are talkiing about when it comes to sustainable development.

Tegi Obanda
Ottawa, Canada
March 27, 2007