Re: [africa-oped] Re: Kenyan Delegation Visit Mr. Calvin Burgess in Oklahoma

Jacton,

It seems you have not been following the debate from where it started until now.

I would suggest you follow the debate, then you can evaluate our own analysis, and come up with some way forward.

Mosaisi for once said that I was under the pay of Calvin, a man I have only met once. And this is the same argument you want to label on Elisha.

We have come with convincing arguments about the viability of Dominion, not because it is fronted by a white man, but because, our own government failed to do anything meaningful to the area residents through the infamous Lake Basin Development Authority.

LBDA failed, and Dominion succeded. Is that something that we should castigate a white man for? I doubt.

Then we made comparisons with most projects that have failed in Nyanza, either courtesy of the self same government, or through ineptness. We have counted Kenyan Breweries, Kicomi, Mollasses, Sondu Miriu, Miwani Sugar, the roads, the fish industry and a chain of things.

Now, our question has been, why do all these things seem only to fail in Nyanza? Then we figured out, that it is our own people, who have been acting as agent provocateurs in the failing of all these projects.

We also juxtaposed what Dominion is doing in Yala, against what Del Monte, Sasini and Kakuzi are doing in Thika. WE found out that our Kikuyu brothers and sisters, because they know the benefits to such investments, have never made any noise about their existence.

Why is it that it is only our people who are masters at knowing things to do with environmental Impact assessments? Why is it that it is only our own people who are talking of imperialistic tendencies of the white man?

I tend to agree more with the man of cloth, Kuria-Mwangi, that we need not look far, Kikulacho ki nguoni mwako.

NO, Jacton, time has come for the few confused Luos to wake up and face reality. When we talk of issues affecting us in Nyanza, then you find busy bodies like Orina Nyamwamu coming in to muddy the waters more. And we praise them. Yet it is our Nyanza that is in the dock.

When it comes to national issues, I have always lent my voice strongly. so I cannot be boxed into that small cocoon of being a tribalist. A tribalist because I have come out in support of Dominion. No.

We must all defend what is good for our people, and castigate agents of doom, be they from within like Jacton, or from without like Orina.

Odhiambo T Oketch
Komarock Nairobi