Part 2: What kind of Kenya Do We Want And What Kind of Kenya Do We Seek?

Today at 2:15pm

We as nation did not have founding fathers (like the United States) or a grand ideological revolution (like France, USSR or China). Our predecessors sought to throw of the shackles of colonialism. They had no plan. No broad strategy for the nature of the Kenyan nation did not appear until Sessional Paper No. 1 of 1966. Until that time the nation remained a ship at sea rudderless and aimless. That very sessional paper was trashed when its author was shot dead on the streets of Nairobi on the 5th of July 1969. The result: A ship adrift now became a ship with no captain or with several captains depending on whose version you want to take with one objective and one objective only:

Maintaining power.

This has been the aim of the political class since independence. Make no mistake about it. The assassinations of Pio de Gama Pinto, Tom Mboya, C.M.G Argwings-Kodhek, Ronald Ngala, Wasaonga Sijeyo, J.M. Kariuki, Horace Ongili Owiti, Bishop Alexander Muge, Dr. Robert John Ouko, Masinde Muliro, and Dr. Odhiambo Mbai were all when carefully examined about maintaining power by a ruling class that felt under threat.

The mass accumulation of wealth through corruption and intimidation by the Kiambu mafia, then the Kalenjin elite and later the Mt. Kenya mafia, was all about power, since in Kenya money is power.

So, since power is the aim, the life blood of all politics in Kenya how then in good conscience can we expect anything less than the rubbish the political class have subjected us to in the last 45 years?

How can we expect Raila, Kibaki, Kalonzo, Uhuru, Ruto, and Karua to show us or give us anything more than the poor lip service they and their predecessors have given us?

How can we expect, the same mandarins who pay themselves more than US Senators to care whether the ‘real’ Kenya’s live or die?

How can we an educated class except through some mix of tribal exuberance and pitiful ignorance imagine for one second that if we keep turning this same key and turning the k knob the same way this door will open in a different manner?

So we are all either tribalists or we are all ignorant.

Let us enter into the age of ‘significant enlightenment’, for our good and the good of all generations hereafter.

Let us be the founding fathers (and mothers) of this nation or let us become the significant moral majority that this nation so needs.