Wake Up, Kenyans.

2012 is now in the radar screen in Kenya! The drums are rolling, and the people are being mobilised to head to the fields to ward off the elements of distraction who threaten the communities' harvests!
Those who live along the wild life reserves are looking out for animals that invade the farms and destroy the crops while in the political scene, 'the leaders' are drawing imaginary boundaries and marking off territories with a view to identify who their 'allies ' are and therefore know who their 'enemies' are. The stage is being set for another round of PEV?
GOD Forbid, NO!!!
All these alignments and re-alignments, shuffling and re-shuffling by the political class, using 'uncivil' language is bound to mislead gullible Kenyans into getting into 'fight or fight' mode. This is the last thing we need as a nation, especially before we have gotten to a closure of our last internal 'civil war'. We haven't finished sorting the good, the bad and the ugly in our Grand Coalition. I wish all Kenyans would take the wisdom of UB40's song "Who you fighting for?" and think twice before they take up any arms against each other.

".......
You do the shooting - they do the looting
You do the killing - they do the drilling
You do the dying - they do the lying
All the way to the Bank
You can hear them crying.......

.....Sell the arms, suppress the truth
Create the fear, invent the proof
Wave the flag - don't tell the youth
Who they are fighting for
.........."- UB40

While the politicians are traversing the countryside hyping up support for their political ambitions, CDF funds; millions of shillings earmarked for raising the standards of living for millions of Kenyans lie idle in the Central Bank unclaimed, thousands of innocent Kenyans are still in the cold in IDP camps, and others are living in abject poverty and squalor in our slums. The MPs are just too busy to concentrate on what they were voted into parliament for.
 At this point in time, there are politicians who are calling for a generational change in leadership. They are not telling Kenyans what the young generation of leaders will do differently from their fathers or grandfathers. They are not mentioning that some of the ills that beleaguer our nation; corruption, impunity, nepotism have become so entrenched in our psyche that they are hereditary. To quote the UB40 again..." the sins of the fathers.."
may be passed on to the sons. Started by the white colonialists handing over power to black colonialists at the dawn of our independence.
In the early 1990s Kenyans were crying about the Moi dictatorship and the rallying call was 'Moi Must Go', 'yote yawezekana bila Moi!' We lost sight of the fact that without Moi there could be 'Moi-ism' and so we pushed Moi out but retained 'Moi-ism'. Because of this, 'yote hayakuwezekana!'
What we need in Kenya is not only generational change in leadership.We need a reset to our national mindset. We need genuine national civic enlightenment. Citizens need to be educated on the consequences of their individual and communal decisions on the national level. This time around, we have a Constitution that seems well poised to facilitate the actualisation of our national dreams. We should not lose this momentum and spirit.