As I have often said, Kenya is still bleeding. The police are still killing civilians with impunity, corruption is still rampant, nepotism and partiality in government are still deeply rooted and hunger, famine and hopelessness are bartering over sixty five percent of the population yet our leaders are deeply immersed in negative politics of division.
The country is sinking into oblivion socioeconomically. Prices of the basic necessities are beyond reach for the ordinary working people even if those commodities are locally produced. Sugar and corn meal for instance are not affordable to many people in the Coast, North Rift Valley region of Pokot, Turkana and South Rift regions of Chepalungu, Soin, Trans Mara, Narok and some parts of Kajiado. North Eastern Province is facing famine that has never been faced before. If nothing is not done fast we shall go there to bury corpses very soon!
While the foregoing are wiping out people, our elected leaders are fighting one another in their strategies for the 2012 general elections.
Do you know that there are no more roads in many parts of Kenya? May be you will find some in politically correct areas. Traveling from Nairobi to Kisumu nowadays takes eternity while our leaders are at war with each other. How will the economy grow as we have often been promised in the situation where communication is undermined, leadership asleep at the wheel and the country is hungry and hopeless?
When Kenyans set out to elect Raila in the last election, they did so in the knowledge that recycled leadership would not help the country overcome over forty years of retrogressive politics that set tribe against tribe and politician against politician. We wanted fresh leadership and expected it from Raila. Now we can’t have such leadership because the old corrupt and inept leaders are still at the top. Raila will achieve less as long as Kibaki is president because the constitution of Kenya as we know it now bestow too much powers to the president.
Kenya is where it was before general elections of 2007- Same leader style, same leaders, same life as before, etc.
J.K. LELEITTO SANG
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:01:05 -0800 [02/26/2009 09:01:05 PM CST]
From: sang kip
Subject: KENYA STILL BLEEDS