There is the english proverb that goes on about a forest and trees. I do not know which way it goes in reference to confused people who harp on unimportant ideas - whether they are in the forest or they have missed it for the trees. But one thing is certain to me, Kenya has one huge forest peopled by trees of problems: there is a tree each for the stolen maize, the unaffordable maize flour, the IDPs still in the camps, the siphoned fuel, the extrajudicial killings, the negligence leading to deaths by fire, the lost parliament, the dead parliamentarians, the inept and corrupt principals, the idle youth, the cordless accord, the theft of tax monies, the killed new constitution making process etc etc etc....trees trees and trees. So where is the forest?
It must have been Saturday 28th when honour less beth mugo called Prof Alston a colonialist using the backdoor (i.e UN status and responsibility) to colonise Kenya (i.e to ask for the resignation of people -smiling wako and arrogant ali - who have abetted the killing of over 500 youths in the name of Mungiki extermination.)
I do not know whether Prof Alston's ten day visit brought a forest or the trees. Why did Kiraithe react so energetically, to the extent of identifying Commissioner Hassan of KNCHR as the enemy? Why are our politicians reacting to the findings as if Alston came from outer space? Haven't we had these reports here for so long? has the civil society not published these reports before? Is is in doubt that ali, wako, the perpetrators of PEV, the maize and oil thieves etc should go home? Is it in doubt that raila and kibaki have failed?
We can deal with back door colonialists as a people, but, we must admit, we have been unable to deal with front door colonialists.
So who are the front door colonialists? kibaki, raila, ministers, mps, police, attorney general, local government councils, all anti-land reform crusaders, all anti new constitution crusaders (note: those politicians shouting for a new constitution are the first to put bottlenecks to its realisation!), all thieves (legitimate or otherwise) of public resources etc.
So who are the colonised: the Kenyan Public!
How then do we deal with front door colonialists?
REMOVE THEM FROM OFFICE!
We do not need a president or prime minister complete with 42 significant others and over fifty insignificant others plus over one hundred attendants and about five hundred hangers on in this country who are feeding on our taxes, stealing us blind, confounding our attempts at legal redress, dictating that we be amnesic and that we see god (salvation) in them! no.
imagine these people who are our problem are just below one thousand!
How cowardly we are as a nation, that thirty five million people are made so very miserable by so few confabulating noise makers!
Solution?
some lessons:
France: Revolution! The people forced the king and the royalty to step aside
Sierra Leone: Paraded and shot. Anarchy spread (wrong way)
Uganda: A "benevolent" dictator did them good with extermination of a few before he turned into a psychopath and turned against the people (wrong way)
Serbia: Revolution! People organised and threw milosevic and his entourage out
WHAT KENYANS NEED TO DO
Make Kenya unsuitable for living by these Front Door Colonialists!
- Media to stop covering their none sense
- mps to be prevented from holding rallies at home or elsewhere
- Kenyans to stop paying taxes en mass
- popular confiscation of proceeds from ill-gotten wealth (invade houses of mps etc)
- armed forces to be educated to join other Kenyans
- call for popular elections - current and past (elected or otherwise) office holders not eligible
- people to promulgate their own new constitution
Do we have the mettle to do this?
YES!
This requires a great deal of organising, alot of logistics, but it can be done. This is the only way!
Thoughtful stuff. Only about the taxes, what you said.
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