Depending on our political divide that
makes us choose our leaders, that should not be the basis of cheap political
differences between us, as any political doing affects us all e.g. we are all
taxed heavily uniformly without favour.
As I list three points that we poor
Kenyans need from our political leaders, I want to make it clear to us Kenyans
that we should always hold our leaders to task on their promises and if they
fail we shouldn’t have even a tad of sympathy when they walk around asking for our
votes on re-election day. We should not make one step forward and more than a billion
bob worth of step backwards, if we do so, not only will our leaders take
advantage of us but will take advantage of our future generation.
Inclusivity
"Democracy [is] not majority rule:
democracy [is] diffusion of power, representation of interests, and recognition
of minorities." (John Calhoun, as paraphrased by Roper 1989, 63).
As one of my friends put it, we are 42
tribes but the 4 is silent. Much as many may want to deny, there is no national
representation in the current government.
This is not to be as the ‘tyranny of
numbers’ has side-lined the people that didn’t vote for the current government;
this is majorly through resource allocation and political appointments in the
government. It’s not that I support a tribal appointment but I am a champion
for a national outfit that shouts this is a government for all.
This doesn’t rule the fact that ODM also
suffer from the same kind of a problem as seen by the way they conducted their
national party elections and their rally across the ‘Nation’ that had called
for national dialogue.
More so the 2 might be the upper
capitalist people and the political class.
Security
Here I will discuss two areas of
security; food security and national security (Human & wildlife).
The fact that we
are importing maize (staple food) from Tanzania says a lot, this may be
attributed to bad weather that resulted to rise in price of a bag of maize by
30% in the past 10 months and the reduction of our maize reserves by more than
half. I wouldn’t want to point fingers in any direction but the government
strategists (both national & county) would take note to invest heavily in
technology and youth education agricultural programmes that would encourage the
youths to venture into agriculture more to remove our nation from such
incidences and make this nation a more food secure one (if we still believe
agriculture is the backbone of our economy). Just the other day we saw a
saddening revelation of the El-molo people who are dying of hunger when we have
leaders to have prevented such.
In recent times anyone who would tell
you that s/he feels secure in our nation would either be a liar or is one of
the upper class where having body guards is just like breathing air to any
other Kenyan. We have seen poor Kenyans being killed in the areas like Bungoma,
Mpeketoni, Kilifi etc. this would be curbed if we had a more serious Internal
Security CS who has now become more of a comedian than a technocrat. This lies
squarely on the national government, we have to reconsider our security
training and offer ample resources to the police men. The sooner the government
stops blaming the opposition on this the earlier they will have a clear picture
on what is going on and if so opposition the let them carry their own cross in
our courts and prison. Read http://halfpoets.blogspot.com/2014/06/open-letter-to-uhuru-odinga.html#.U7PBz0Bva00
The loss of our wildlife in current
times is not only disheartening but also deprive us and the future generation
of our national treasures. At least we have honourable people the likes of Dr Paula Kahumbu who has been championing for the safety of our endangered wild
animals (elephants mostly) with a hope that the government will also do more on
their part, having in mind the current donor government we are going to bed
with is one of the leading government in ivory trade.
Development
One of the major factors for us to have
devolved government was development of areas that felt deprived of the national
cake by the government of the day. The current devolved governments should at
the moment be assisted by the national government while both parliaments set
legislations that will guide to curb the overspending devolved governments from
the unnecessary expenditures that have seen some of the MCA’s visit many parts
of the world as tourists when our tourism industry subsides, the opposition as
well as the government have the prerogative to put to task the working of the
devolved governments instead of leaving this ‘big’ task to the ‘unable’ and
selfish MCA’s. As I write the devolved governments mismanage funds and
resources allocated to them with no serious oversight on their actions.
Whenever there are questions with regards to the development priorities of our
leaders we should always be united as the right to give us proof that whatever
development choice they make rests wholly on them not for us to attack each
other. Read http://anotherkenyan.blogspot.com/2014/07/dr-mutua-has-questions-to-answer.html
Let’s not be political slaves with a
feel that ‘my’ leader is being targeted; I leave the rest for you to add more
points.
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