I believe the Middle Class can save Kenya.
These are professionals who are or have paid for their houses, they drive their cars, they can afford to take their children to school and they do take care of their parents back at home. In the process, they do not live on hand-outs from politicians.
They have all that it takes to save Kenya. Because most of the Middle Class have kept off politics and party politics, politics has been invaded by charlatans who have no idea at management. Look at the cast that has led Kenya since Independence in 1963.
We set off at Independence with a clear resolve to eradicate poverty and illiteracy, create shelter for all, secure food for all Kenyans, access Kenyans to medicine and water and electricity, and to move the country forward.
What do we have in Kenya now, 46 years down the line?
Poverty is rampant. Illiteracy is at its peak. Shelter in most towns is unaffordable and mostly houses are not built to specifications required by law. Kenyans are dying of hunger now as our leaders steal all the available maize. Our Hospitals are not well stocked with medicine and water has not reached towns like Kisumu that sit at the shore of the second largest water Lake in the World. Electricity has become a political tool for campaigns, it is not there regularly even in Nairobi.
This basically means that the cast that we left politics to have failed. In this cast, we have the same people who have been there since Independence. They might have been brilliant then, but if their brilliance has not led to the fulfillment of the mandate for which they set out to achieve at Independence 46 years ago, they cannot achieve it now.
They Least Common Factor, as matheticians would say is; thievery. This is where they all bond. All of them.
All this failure has been occasioned simply because the Middle Class have chosen to take a casual attitude to life in Kenya. We pretend that we can afford the basics as the charlatans in politics mess the country. We have not put them to strict order of proof and accountability.
For Christs sake, this is also our country. We must rise up and engage the country, in the process, we will save Kenya. We must mobilize Kenyans against tribalism, a tool that these charlatans have perfected to divide us with. Let us surprise them by eradicating tribalism amonst us.
We must start by consigning all these thieves in government to Siberia. If need be, let us petition our Big Brothers to help us consign these people to History. If they have got it all wrong in 46 years, can they get it right now? The US and the UK must know this.
The Middle Class must start mass mobilization against all these people in government. We must come up and support a completely new person to take up leadership in Kenya. We do not need anybody with experience, for the kind of experience these guys have is all the same. They are all experts at stealing.
Just imagine if these guys would have spent the kind of resourcefulness that they have in Nation Building! Do you think Kenya could be suffering hunger 46 years down the line as politicians steal food? Do you think teachers could be going on strike as the politicians steal food?
Do you think shelter could be an issue as politicians steal food? Do you think medicine could be an issue as politicians steal food?
And what has become of all the Donor Funding and Grants we have received since 1963?
Odhiambo T Oketch,
Komarock Nairobi
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:51:47 -0800 [06:51:47 AM CST]
From: odhiambo okecth
Subject: The Middle Class in Kenya
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I agree, middle class can and should have saved Kenya by now but…
Unless they get out of the comfort of their offices and rented homes to participate in mass matches and other political processes, saving Kenya is just but a dream.
We need to be bold and support each other however “small” the resources we have. I will be very happy for example if we make our presence known the next time KFF holds national elections, just like we love Arsenal,Man Untd,chelsea etc………..and many other elective offices before we even dream of the house on the hill.
Unite,avoid the joy of comfort in small things ( even big things are small when the country is not alright) and change will come, real change that will save Kenya.
Cheburet
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:14:36 -0800 [10:14:36 AM CST]
From: moses cheburet
Subject: Re: The Middle Class in Kenya