Our Turn to Eat...

So we now know that the PM has a dossier, or several, about a DPM's past misdeeds. In the same vein, we know that the PM has a closet of skeletons he would like Kenyans to ignore and , yes you guessed it right, the said DPM has that dossier. But conveniently enough, none of them saw it wise or prudent to involve the AntiCorruption watchdog in these issues. All to maintain the status quo of the grand theft that is the Grand Coalition.

We have known all along that the once long serving VP had something to do with a number of corruption deals during the 'Nyayo Error' and so when he says he is experienced enough to lead us 'unto greater heights of prosperity', one only wonders what he means by prosperity.

We all know what YK92 did for the 'ordinary mwananchi' during those dark days of 'Baba na Mama', the period the national economy was plundered in broad daylight so that the son of Moi could hold onto the reigns of leadership, so that he could prove that multi party democracy was a phenomenon alien to the African politico. It was in that period that Kenyans started witnessing the now familiar pre-planned, well orchestrated, government sponsored ethnic violence. All to make true a prediction the then 'father-of-the-nation' had earlier made that multi party politics would plunge the country into chaos. One of the Ocampo 4 is currently awaiting court process, in the Hague for among others-these same atrocities, and still insisting that he knows what is best for Kenya. He is also yet to have his day in court to prove himself innocent of various corruption charges facing him in the domestic scene.

Lastly, we know what the first free Kenyan regime did to entrench public hoodwinking, land grabbing, and official corruption. The son of the then father-of-the-nation has not even hinted that he knows some wrongs were done and need to be undone. His family's vast estate (most of it unaccountable) spreads all over the prime parts of the country while the poor and landless live in squalor. IDPs still struggle for space to erect canvas structures in the camps without hygienic infrastructure.

We desperately need a third force in our political trajectory to deviate us from the current course, for surely it is a course towards self destruction or stagnation at best. We need to refuse the politicians-engineered notions of ethnic confrontation when it comes to election time and go to the polls with nation-hood at heart. We need to all agree that it is our time as Kenyans to eat and for our politicians to stop eating- and wherever possible to have returned to us what had been taken. Did anyone hear the government is giving Ksh10,000 to IDPs who have been homeless for the last four years? Is that not a slap in the face?-me asks? And with those few remarks, I rest my case.

Hear Ye All Kenyans of Goodwill

As the sand dunes that are Kenyan political elites continue to shift and surf the desert landscape that the Kenyan political scene is,- merging here, separating there, changing shapes, sizes and directions, we, the citizens ought to shake ourselves from the reverie of yesteryear's promise of a new dawn after the promulgation of the new Constitution.
This is my bugle blast Kenyans, 'Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war…' Our land has been plundered and sacked by these gentry now arranging and re-arranging themselves for the next round of looting. It's time we put our feet firmly on our beloved motherland and weeded out the vampires. We need to separate the few good men and women from the 'honourable' chaff and hand them the mantle of national leadership.
Let us all united disregard our ethnic backgrounds and gauge each and every aspirant per their individual 'pluses and minuses'-Thieves from our own backyards rob us the same as they rob our distant neighbours.
The Constitution gave us the hope of a new beginning and it is the time we put it to test. Let us not forget what our politicians have been doing all along. They have created, crafted and perfected the art of national plunder never before seen; The grabbing of land originally meant for repatriation to the colonial IDPs in the 60s thru the 70s, grabbing of public land throughout the the three administrations, ethnic cleansing by the 'nyayo error', goldenberg and 'anglo fleecing' rip-offs, parliamentary blackmail and extortions in the form of refusing to pay taxes while raising their own pay packages, and many others which have been given publicity blackouts.
Any politician who has touched even a hair of the marginalized (and that is all of us) by- being involved in corrupt deals, or being tainted by the last three administrations' malfeasance should be ejected and lined up for due legal scrutiny.
Let us all united shout from the roof tops and mountain tops that impunity, even by our own sons and daughters has no place in the new Kenya.