archiveIt is official and spoken by Raila Odinga himself that his colleagues within ODM Kenya want him to settle for the non-existent Prime Minister’s post and step down from being a presidential candidate to break the current stalement within the party.
In other words imagine a situation where you cheat a small child that you will bring them some candy when you get back home from work. You renege on your promise and the next morning you promise exactly the same thing. Surely, even if that child is mentally challenged…
The bigger issue here which Kenyans should see (instead of just concentrating on their preferred presidential candidates) is the fact that everything is being decided for us. WHY? In other words we are not intelligent enough to decide who our next president should be. The masses as they say, always have to be led like sheep.
When will we wake up and say “NO”? When will we rise up and take our country back? And yet we have the power, especially those of us with voter’s cards.
As it is, we have now been very effectively neutralized because we are busy fighting amongst ourselves (even in this blog) over who is a better presidential candidate and why. Meanwhile it really does not matter who gets elected, they will all be more of the same for us Kenyans. Kalonzo, Raila, Mudavadi Uhuru, Kibaki etc. will NOT bring the change we badly need. Sorry my friends, but let me just say the truth and stop being hypocritical.
There is no way that Kalonzo will restore the looted fortunes of Kenya back to the people. Even Raila can not. How can he when he is planning to form an all-inclusive government that includes the very thieves who have looted this country. Kalonzo is planning the same. Kanu is there to protect the wealth of those it made fabulously rich. Period. Delegates and its’ so called die hard members are just being used as pawns. M,e and you are also on course to being used as pawns in the forthcoming polls.
I hear you saying that we have no option. Really? Are you sure?
What is stopping me and you discussing here and coming up with an appropriate name of some principled Kenyan, a political nobody? And then presenting that candidate for election? My friends we do not know the power we have, let us wake up. It is only when we decide to do something that realistic solutions will present themselves. But as long as our minds are “locked” we will go nowhere.
Let me not say much, but instead give a small illustration. You know how they train elephants for the circus? They start when the elephant is a baby. They tie it on a leash and it spends a lot of time playfully trying to get out but is totally unable to. Meanwhile the elephant is growing all the time and is one day big and powerful easily able to free itself from the leash. But guess what, the elephant does not even try, (it gave up a long time ago) because it is already convinced that IT CANNOT. Imagine that! A big powerful animal tied to a small tiny rope that it can break with one small jerk of its head or body.
That is exactly how me and you and every Kenyan is today.
Kenya has changed. A LOT!! Talk to any Kenyan irrespective of their tribe and they will tell you that they are fed up. Everybody wants change. But we just don't have the balls to go for it (excuse my language).
Sadly we have already accepted defeat before the contest has even started. Some people even wants us to start discussing 2012 because 2007 has already been decided.
We are all sure of the following;
It is impossible for somebody to win the presidency without forming a coalition ahead of the elections.
It is impossible to get Kenyans to NOT vote along tribal lines. (quick question; how many tribes voted for Kibaki in 2007?)
It is impossible for a germ of an idea in this blog to decide the next elections.
This blogger is daydreaming.
I don’t want to ask you guys to read history, because I know you will not. But all I can say is that there are many examples of people who have done what was at first believed to be impossible. Besides it is best to fail while trying something different other than to do the same old thing which has always given you the same results and to then expect different results. HOW?
We (me and you) have the power to decide. It is our God-given right. So why don’t we dare to dream and then try and make that dream come true?
Nationalist Tom Mboya’s father once jeered at his son. The illiterate sisal picker asked his son;
“This mzungu who is so clever that he manufactures machines to fly in the air and has made so many wonderful thing… you really think you can outsmart him?”
The old man, although he was illiterate, made a lot of sense. Mboya was a Form 4 graduate. A voracious reader, but still he had never seen the inside of an A-level classroom, let alone a university campus. How could he possibly outsmart the all powerful colonial government?
But you know the story. You know that Mboya did achieve the impossible. For your information when he took up the rallying cry of "Uhuru
sasa" in 1961, virtually every Kenyan thought he was crazy in the head. It did not look like Kenya could get independence in the next 10 years.
My dear brothers and sisters, the time has come for us to take courage and think the impossible. Getting a non-tribal leader and the government that will bring the change we deserve. Let us debate this issue here in the coming days even as we launch our stop the violence campaign. Let me sign off today by quoting the quote from Ritchie’s comment here recently;
I know some of us have ever read “The Nation’s Prayer” but I reproduce it here for the benefit of all of us:
“God give us men!
A time like this demands: strong minds, great heights, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who posses opinions and a will;
Men who have honour; Men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue;
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking;
Tell men, sun-crowned who live above the fog;
In public duty and in private thinking;
For while they rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds;
Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps;
Wrong rules the land, and waiting justice sleeps.”Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti PrisonAre you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.Discover how the exciting new
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