Dear all patriotic Kenyans,
Yes we can!
Yes we can be the hope for Mama Wanja who has to suffer the night’s stinging cold because our shortsighted leaders messed up the general elections to quench personal ambitions and to protect their corruppt friends.
Yes we can be the hope of Mr. Chege who after losing all his property through political instigated violence, still cannot access Resettlement and Compensation fund because of the carelessness and selfishness of some well placed individuals in our country who reap from disasters they create.
Yes we can be the hope for Wamalwas,Otienos,Karanjas, Kipyegons, Mwongelas, Nyankundis and other millions of Kenyans who works dawn to dusk but have to put up with the pain of watching their families go to bed cold and hungry because their pay-check cannot afford even one meal a day for their children.
Yes we can be the hope for Mama Mueni whose 1 year old does not have baby food, her 12 year old girl child is at risk of dropping out of primary school from stress because she cannot afford the luxury of sanitary towels, and her 7 year old boy child who has a terrible toothache but has never seen a dentist (and probably will not soon either).
Yes we can be the hope for the Kenyans who have to put up with the hell of all day traffic jams, hell of bad roads, hell of pot-holed roads, hell of no roads notwithstanding that they promptly pay their taxes.
Yes we can be the hope for the thousands of urban poor families who are now on a daily skip-a-meal program because they cannot afford the price of unga, kerosene, milk, bread, rice etc
Yes we can be the hope for Rift Valley Railways workers, EZP workers, Flower farm workers, Tea farm workers and Pineapple plantation workers whose sweat from long work hours ends in someone else’s basket who doesn’t work as much and doesn’t live in their neighborhood.
Yes we can be the hope for our fellow countrymen and women who do not own even a small piece of land enough for burial right; our countrymen who play house in the cartons on our street sidewalks and our countrymen who walk around smiling when nothing tickles and scratch where they are not itching and hopelessness has pushed them to accept being mad.
Yes we can be the hope for our country¢s increase in revenue and development if we remain resolute to sustain pressure that all corrupt leaders must held to account for their action or inaction and that our Members of Parliament must join our nation’s taxpayers army.
Yes we can be the hope for our school children who might not finish their High School education because the Minister for Education in old fashioned, reactionary and simplistic attitude of the colonial age has labelled our children criminals who deserve to be in psychological death chambers called prisons.
Yes we can be the hope to bring the word NOW to our country and our people who have yearned for close to 50 years to get a better socio-economic and political contract document called the new generation constitution.
Yes we can be the hope to make North Eastern province move closer to Nairobi or take Nairobi to the forgotten parts of our country.
YES WE CAN AND LET US GET DOWN TO WORK!
George Nyongesa
Bunge la Mwananchi
www.bulamwa.co.ke
+254 720 451 235
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:14:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: George Nyongesa
Subject: Yes, We can Obama Kenya Now!