ELECTION REALITY: BEING GIKUYU ALONE IS 'SINFUL'..

Even as politicians refuse to discuss a Bill on tribalism in Parliament my heart would still be broken after all.

As an ordinary buff I find the previous and current governments being assertive and full of pro-trial rhetoric. As true Kenyans we have become the missing pieces of the Kenyan jigsaw (scrabble) puzzle.

Personally, I’m no longer Gikuyu but Kenyan of Gikuyu origin and with inalienable rights like any other Kenyan. These include the rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness. It is surprising that many of my country men would still refuse to live by the true facts. This scourge is being perpetuated by us and it is here with us.

Let me pose the following. When you look at yourself on the mirror, what do you ‘choose’ to see? Is it the image of a Kenyan that you would see or that of a Gikuyu around Nairobi or Central Province? If that image is that of some Gikuyu then you are that heartless victim that I’m describing. Certainly, you may agree with me that being Kenyan is a dream and being Gikuyu alone is a nightmare. I have experienced it and I know it.

The Kenyan broom is more effective than separate tribal straws. It is time to strip ourselves of the cloak of over-inflated false-pride than to live and always face the haunting past.

The tribal independence and current histories would menacingly glare at us behind the façade of change. Let us outsource our politics of leadership nationally and with one voice. The older generation politicians’ petulance should cease from visiting the sins of their fathers onto their children.

Currently the youth only suffer yet they are not responsible for their grandfathers’ tribal-laced political and leadership affiliations.

Just like napkins majority of the youth are unemployed and have thus become cheap to buy, quickly to use and to be literally disposed of. For the current tribal politicians, there is no shortage of such a supply for campaign and electoral purposes.

Though this may sound bitter for mentioning the Agikuyu, it is only but a reflection of the non-prosperous but seemingly seismic tribal imperialism that is still within our systems including political and leadership.

This tribal interface being perpetrated by my fellow countrymen is a hotbed for inter-communal bigotry that needs to stop forthwith.

We shouldn’t be tribal genetically just because ethnically we are.

Mundia Mundia Jnr