| Out of the Darkness into the Light, has Kenya emerged from a possible civil war? |
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A critical analysis of the recent events.
Has Kenya averted a possible civil war or have Kenyans postponed the inevitable civil war for the future, when there will be more people to kill,......
It is almost impossible to expect the purity in government functions. Therefore Kenyans and the international community, though satisfied with the voting process declared the electoral commission of Kenya wanting. The question is, what do you do in these circumstances? Do you burn down your house, your neighbor’s house, your local church, your local bank and the water purification systems? Do you destroy the railways, by-ways and highways? Do you carry machetes, rungus, bows and arrows or throw stones? Do you stand with one tribe or do you take the side of justice? What is justice in this case? Is it the parties, the candidates or is justice Kofi Annan? For the thousands of people displaced, justice is they casting a vote, going back home and waiting patiently for a peaceful announcement of the winner. For those who supported Mwai Kibaki justice was the ECK declaring him the 2007 winner of the elections. To the supporters of Raila Odinga, justice was having him declared as president and to the members of parliament, justice was their swearing in thus harvesting the huge salaries and the benefits that come with the title Member of parliament. So is this justice? Should we declare justice is in the eyes of the beholder or is justice a universal principle so sacred that even the worst of equatorial winds cannot defeat it? Isn’t justice kikuyus living in Kisumu with luo neighbors or luhyas living in Taita Taveta with taita neighbors? Isn’t justice Turkanas living in Kitale with the kalenjin neighbors? Or isn’t justice a constitution guarantying the right of all citizens of the Republic to live anywhere within the borders, to marry the woman or the man they love and bring up a family, in the province they choose, educate their children freely in any institution they choose thus securing a nation with generations of men and women in pursuit of good: the good of all? Kofi Annan mediated an agreement to bring a sense of justice to all. But a close look at the frame work in the agreement, the core was satisfying the individual desires for power.
Therefore the Prime Minister gets a Mercedes, a government house, government security, a great salary, butlers and garden tenders! The president stays at State House, protected by the armed forces while the common man gets his historical democratic loot of walking from Kibera to a poor paying job in industrial area, taking a matatu from Wangige to Koja; a dusty uncomfortable matatu I may add. The Turkanas continue to trend across a grassless terrain and the fishermen in Lake Victoria continue to die from curable cases of malaria. Behold the dawn of a new day! Behold the prime ministers and his two deputies! Behold the land reforms! Behold the peace and prosperity? But please don’t talk to the displaced, don’t mention their burnt down homes, burnt down schools, burnt down churches, don’t speak of their dead relatives in fact do not talk to their enemies who still believe that they grabbed land and they don’t belong. Don’t speak to the hundreds of luos who were gathered up by the Meru community, taken to the D.O’s office and ordered to go back to their homes in Western. Don’t speak to the luos who were gathered at Naivasha police station whose children slept on dusty ground no mattresses, no blankets, just because they voted for Raila. Don’t speak of the Kikuyus in Lumbanda police station in Nyanza province who ran from their homes because they voted for Kibaki. Has Kenya averted a possible civil war or have Kenyans postponed the inevitable civil war for the future, when there will be more people to kill, displace, hate and a greater man of greed who would demand their votes but watch the voters perish in poverty, disease, displacement and the search for justice in a democratic state.
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04-16-2008 02:02, , Guest The people of Kenya are still divided because I believe that the election results was just an excuse to light up what Kenyans have been habouring in their hearts for long. It doesn't matter whether theres a coalition govt or not, the real question is "Has Kenyans learnt their lesson and what will happen after 5 years?" » Reply to this comment...
03-28-2008 12:23, , Guest Kenya is still in darkness. The solution is not with Annan but with the Kenyans themselves. All tribes should stand up and say enough is enough. We are tired of reading the same news with no hope for the displaced people. The coalition is a ghost in our country bringing even more confusion. » Reply to this comment... |
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