Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:10:55


GOVERNANCE:

When the White man came to Kenya holding a Bible, he found us with our land. He told us to close our eyes to pray. When we opened our eyes after prayers, we were holding the Bible while he held our land..." said Jomo Kenyatta as he justified the bloody Mau Mau (Mzungu Aende Ulaya Muafrika Apate Uhuru) war that ousted colonialism out of Kenya. Writing this article on January 25, I'm thinking how befitting that we should remember Kenyatta's words on the eve of December 12 as we wait to "celebrate" (my foot!) the anniversary of the victory of our independent day!

Indeed, Kibaki came holding "peace" and "sleep" while Kenyans held factories, banks, buses, airplanes, railways, co-operative unions, food silos, fuel reservoirs, hotels, schools, Nairobi City and land. He convinced us to catch up on the long eluded sleep while he sorted things out 2002 after removing Arap Moi.

We slept for 5 years. When we woke up, we were holding peace while he held all our assets! We are going to have to fight to extricate ourselves from Kibaki's paws, now deeply entrenched in our everything. It is not going to be easy, because no thief, robber, looter or colonialist ever let go of their loot easily. and Kibaki has been more cunning than most, saving the gun for the final onslaught of Kenya.

Those who may not have noticed, Inspector General of Police, Major Hussein Ali latest orders are that no one can hold any congregation beyond 20 people without his authority.

If fully enforced, which Major Ali's decree is intended to be, one cannot baptize his/her child and hold a party of more than 20 people without his permission - but that is not the tragedy.

The tragedy is that most Kenyans, especially PNU/ODM KENYA MPs have not realized that this country has been repackaged as a revised one party, vicious, (repeat "vicious"), dictatorship, with their full support.

Watching how he has systematically destroyed every sector of this country - the civil service, education, health, industries, police, parliament, judiciary, transport, the executive - I'm beginning to wonder whether a born national would do this to her/his country.

Kibaki seems to have a vengeance on Kenya, as if the country was unkind to him and must pay for his suffering. No one can do what Kibaki has done to Kenya unless they have a score to settle!

But where is Kibaki's heart? Where does he yearn to go, and if nowhere, why destroy the only country that he knows? Can't he see that this sectarian thing he is nurturing is not only dangerous but unsustainable? Does one need to be soothsayer to see that he is leading Kenya to a terrible genocide, with only one community eligible for State House scholarships, lucrative jobs, land allocation, control of security organizations and the country's finances in 5 years?

Isn't it obvious that time will come; no matter how long it might take, when all his misdeeds will be undone, at great cost to his favored community?

Kibaki might accuse me of a sectarian article but I hope his overpaid intelligence tell him that these words are on every pair of lips in Kenya, and if he doesn't know it yet he is the only one! My appeal is to the influential Kikuyu - restrain Kibaki, don't let him do this to you, it is not sustainable, think of your children, think of the majority Kikuyu who are not party to this madness, but who will pay the ultimate price when you, beneficiaries of the madness have fled.

When the White man found Mau Mau and Mugabe's Zimbabwe too hot to handle, they went home, when Amin showed Ugandan Indians the door, they had India to call home, and when things become unbearable for the White South Africans, they can evoke their British or Dutch ancestors and return "home", but where will the poor, ordinary, innocent Kikuyu go, their home being Kenya? Celebrate wisely, restrain Kibaki.

        - TSP