WHAT ARE KENYANS FIGHTING FOR?

    Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:10:57 -0800 (PST)
 
The one major reason why Kenya is at war is the stolen election. We elected Raila Amolo Odinga to bring democratic change that would ensure equality, justice, accountability and fairness. The man won big because we turned out to vote in big numbers.The incumbent, Mr Mwai Kibaki decided to manipulate figures using the Electoral Commission of Kenya whose members are his appointees. Now, that is why we are at war in Kenya.
 
Retrospectively, the current situation is a product of over forty years of corruption, nepotism, favoritism and partiality in hiring, allocating of resources and land, firing and promoting civil servants abuse of human rights and ostracizing of the politically incorrect people.
 
When Kibaki got overwhelming support in 2002, Kenyans expected him to prosecute architects of Goldenberg rip off but corrupters and corruptees in his own government made their own corruption and money siphoning machine called Anglo-Leasing. Kenyans further expected Kibaki to improve efficiency in the civil service and put in place a working impartial government. He began by firing senior civil servants from Kalenjin tribe replacing them with men and women from his tribe, the Kikuyu. By so doing doing, Kibaki was not fighting corruption as mandated by Kenyans but replacing Kalenjins with Kikuyus who were well known as corrupt.
 
Kibaki did not only fire Kalenjins replacing them with Kikuyus, he made sure that judiciary, civil service, parastatals, army, police and virtually every governmental organization was run and controlled by his tribesmen. On top of this, Kibaki made sure that his tribe controlled businesses by availing to them low interest loans. The same was not extended to the other tribes.
 
On the other hand, any cabinet member who comes from outside Mt Kenya, Kibaki's home region, heads low key ministry.
 
In view of this, Kenyans chose to use one lethal weapon they possessed: The vote. Kenyans chose to use democratic means to usher in change and they did it overwhelmingly on December 27, 2007. Kibaki on his side decided to steal the election through his hand picked electoral commission.The voters defeated Kibaki and the electoral commission manipulated the votes to appear as if he won.
 
As I have said, the current situation has been over forty years in the making. When Jomo Kenyatta became president in 1963, he acquired and donated former settler farms to his tribe the Kikuyu in disregard of the people the white settlers forcefully took the land from. Kenyatta used two means to acquire settler farms. He took them forcefully or gave money to his tribesmen to buy the farms from the settlers. Soon after independence, Kikuyus were all over Kenya occupying lands they acquired from white settlers who had earlier own forcefully dispossessed the indigenous people. This affected Rift Valley Province in particular where the Maasai and Kalenjin lost most of their ancestral land to Kikuyus.
 
Most people who are not Kikuyus can not be hired in government, let alone be promoted. Business  and civil service positions are mainly reserved for Kibaki's tribe.This is why the whole country turned against Kikuyus.
 
Likewise scholarships, best schools,best infrastructure,best hospitals and efficient government services are only found in Mt Kenya Region where Kibaki comes from.
 
We are living in a country where one tribe is colonizing us.
 
When Kibaki appointed Kalonzo Musyoka as Vice President, he did what everyone expected.He appointed him because he is from Kamba tribe, the Kikuyu cousins. The message he is passing across is simple and clear. He is saying "I have a new weapon in my arsenal. I am not interested in dialogue.I'm ready to fight"
 
Tribe defines everything in Kibaki's government.He treasures tribal dominance and would rather hang on to power as long as his people reap profit in business and key positions in government.While remaining aloof, the man effectively uses his hardline sidekicks such as Karua, Saitoti, Michuki and Kimunya who are his tribesmen.
 
If Kibaki hangs on regardless of anything, How is he going to rule when 6/8 of the country is against him? Where is he going to generate revenue when the regions that generate big money from agriculture, tourism and fishing is on fire? Kibaki's ministers have often said that Kenya can survive external financial freeze but have failed to know that regions that generate much revenues are now opposed to government. The regions in question seem to say they are fed up with paying taxes to a government that has ignored them.
 
We are yet to see where the government will get money to pay the police who are now killing people indiscriminately. The police that are unleashed on peacefully demonstrators today may turn against the government in future.
 
By using police to kill, the government has worsened tribal relationship and future leadership will have to spend much time and money to reconcile tribes. Kibaki and his home boys will never unite Kenya and the injection of a concoction called Kalonzo is of no benefit to the current chaos. God help Kenya!
 
THE CURRENT STRUGGLE IS FOR THE SURVIVE OF NON KIKUYUS IN KENYA AS OPPOSED TO TRIBAL CLASHES.
 
J.K. LELEITTO SANG
 
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ngeny  wrote:


Arap Kemei,
Yours is well put, however, i wish to deviate from your last para, where you say we need to defend democracy.  Really, in the case of Kenya, there is no democracy to defend after  the event of  30/12/07.  What is left is fight to restore or to redefine the boundaries.
ngeny

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kemei wrote:

Ladies and Gentlemen we as kenyans should not negotiate with the terrorists. The Kalonzos, Kenyattas,Kimunya's, Karua's,the wetangula's and the wako's plus the Saitoti's have no moral authority to seat and discuss issues relating to the current political fiasco and stalemate that we have in our beloved country.

They have leashed terror on innocent kenyas and are now being send to the negotiating table. The people's court should move in and judge them and send them behind bars.

If they are not contained now, they will strike again in 2012 and the damage will be greater. We need to listen to what one of the great son's of Africa former Ghanian president Jerry Rawlings has said. We need a re ran of the election to solve the problem in question in our country.

The world powers should use the money that they had allocated the kenyan Goverment till 2013 to be used to protect Democracy by helping finance the re-ran. They will have then proved to us that they are for democracy and will always stand firm to defend democracy when terrorists like Emilio Mwai Kibaki are a threat to the same.

Now is the time to defend democracy for anything before now is subject to change in the now hence the need for us to go by the now principle. Let the bells of freedom ring to infinity.

 Kemei