Kenyans,
The ability to lead people in difficult situation now like in kenya
today is a matter of using the authoritative power of the leaders in
charge. If these leaders can wield their authority during a crisis like
now by effectively focusing the combined power of their group, then they are able to attack problems like a fierce tiger with wings, flying over the four seas, going into action confidently whenever there is an
opportunity. If leaders loses their authority and cannot focus the power of their group like in Kenya today, they are like dragons cast into a lake, they may seek the freedom of the high seas, but they are trapped and cannot get loose. Most of the time a leader will not be able to please everyone I hope Kibaki and Raila knows that or do they?. since this is true, if a leader have a choice, it is probably better those who are competent and displease those who are not just to make Kenya move forward.
We as Kenyans we have disappointed President Obama very much: This includes, Kibaki, Raila, Mps, Ministers you and me, infact all carrying the Kenyan name etc. Here we see Obama a man who worked very hard to achieve what he has got today. I remember Obama`s campain time: He Obama placed his father on the forefront during his fight for the top job, the man was not and has not in any minute been a shamed of his fathers country or his fathers background, Kenya. Obama visited even the kenyan slums. He placed his Kenyan roots first in all his fighting for the top job. BUT what have Kenyans done?. We have just let the man down completely just by simple humanbeing stupidity, greed, and ignorance. Kenya would have been the first country to tap the development opportunity between USA and Africa. But instead what do Kenyans now get?. Even the simple Delta airlines which was supposed to fly to Nairobi now is not going to travel to Nairobi may be until after 2012, you might be suprised that the airline will be visiting Ghana very soon. It is ashame that even the USA ambassonder in Nairobi have seen that it is a waste of time talking to Mps and instead is directly now talking to the youths. Will the youths also do what the Mps have done or show same intelligence?. What our Mps does not know is that when a top USA ambassoder is talking to youths, he is not doing it from his own head but those are direct notes from the white house.
The Kenyan present governmnet is a let down and it is already
registering a lower economy than what Somalian pirates and thugs are generating in Somalia today. Infact this government is just a waste of tax payers money and it is just like a degrading sewage to the black race again. This governmnet is taking blacks to the dark days when the British used to say these words:` Blacks do not have the brain to rule themselves`, When we British came to Kenya they were still sleeping with goats in the same house; no clòthes etc`We the British are the ones who gave them clothes and told them how to read and write their names etc kind of staff“. I hear that Kenya economy is not far much better than Mugabe`s so guys where is the coalition government that most of the Kenyan elites wanted to be give a chance has taken Kenyans to?. To Kenyans living in USA, it is time to stand up and bring the kenyan glory back, do not sleep it is not the right time to go to bed yet. The USA president is very proud of his fathers roots and is just looking for a better Kenyan who can bring that glory back, a kenyan who have peoples heart and is for the common man. That is the point Kibaki and Raila have completely missed. Any intelligent humanbeing, who had time to listen to Obama`s speech to the muslims must have grabbed the idea and the main point. I hope Raila and Kibaki had time to digest it or is Obama to complicated to be understood?.
Paul Nyandoto
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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:05:11 +0300 [06/07/2009 01:05:11 PM CDT]
From: Paul Nyandoto ; Finland
Subject: Kenyans have disappointed President Obama
I concur with the writer.
If you asked me where Kenya would be, politically, next month, my answer to you would be “I can’t tell.” Here is why. We have no properly constituted Electoral body, the contestants have become the referees in parliament. We have no Leader of Government Business because we have no properly elected government; what we have is “a coalition of the unwilling,” that is sitting in wait for 2012, guzzling our shilling at a drunken pace, readying for battle, again.
Aren’t we Unthankful to God?
We are a people linked to the current “Emperor and Guardian of the Citadel” (Mr Obama) by an umbilical chord. The President of the United States, who is a Kenyan through his father, could have chosen to be Kenyan at eighteen years, but decided to be an American. That is how close Kenyans are to the kill, yet we are starving because he has nowhere to land in the land of shame.This man, President Barack Obama, must be grieving in shame. He has killed a Hippo, a very fat one, and has nowhere in Kenya to land with his kill because our so-called Kenyan leaders are feasting over a skeletal carcass of a poorly fed cow from somewhere in Nyanza.
How funny.
Amid the laughable spectre of public moral rot, our people are waiting for cereal imports, some of which are rotting in Mombasa—unfit to be consumed because of an explosion in the high-seas that generated lots of a toxic compound known as Aluminium phosphide. Now if you have some knowledge of chemistry like me, you may sleep easy on your empty stomach, knowing that, though you are hungry, some chemist at the Government Chemist in Nairobi has saved you from consuming bad corn! But you are not me, and you must be smelling corruption in the convoluted explanation of why you have no corn to buy. That the turmoil of early 2008 that displaced farmers to refugee camps from where they have been unable to escape back to their farms, gives you no reason hope at all! What do you smell?
Meanwhile your leaders are printing the “skeletal cow” known as the Kenyan Shilling in such huge numbers that the Minister for Finance cannot count it with modern computers, let alone budget and account for it, and his royalty is blaming computers made by man and typewriters attended to by man for the endemic typos in the budget!
Yes, a Kenyan has killed a hippo, and is willing to bring the fat carcass home, but has nowhere to land with his kill in Kenya because we are busy looting the Shilling which is 80 times skinnier than our adventurous son’s American Dollar. Kenyan’s, Ramogi must be turning in his grave, Ajuma must be turning in his grave, Kenyatta must be cursing everyone from the grave yonder. Watoto wa simba si simba, in our case!
The last I heard was that the brave Kenyan hunter from the Citadel of Wealth and Power has visited the land of Cleopatra and Mark Antony. He could alternately have landed in Juba, Sudan, were it not for the turmoil there, and this mourning Kenyan’s voice could have cheered, not because he is unpatriotic, but because listening to history is preferable to rewarding rot.
What shame on us Kenyans!
JR Alila
Mr. Nyandoto..please allow me to agree with you on President Obama’s article and to expand on it.Knowing what I know about American politics and its Presidents, President Obama’s visit to Kenya in his official capacity are not good!. Both President Obama’s July trip to Africa will NOT include Kenya and one may wonder why?. Here is my take, Kenya government is so polluted with all shorts of corruption that President Obama does NOT want to associate with Kenya leaders. I don’t think President Obama view of the world and governing is something which Kenya politicians and their leaders would understand at this time.
I cannot blame the President if he decide not set afoot in Kenya for the his duration in office. Why should he deal with the corrupt government/ leaders whose main objective in politics is to look after their own interest. President Obama may have roots in Kenya but he is not stupid to associate with Kenya politicians who: refuse to pay income taxes, get interest free loans mortgages, tell political/public lies, leave in public doll, take bribes for parliamentary votes..the list of corruption is tooooooo..long!.
Mark my word Kenya will be the last Africa country to get help from President Obama unless these ” clowns” start to govern and to deliver services to the public. It pains some of us to see President Obama influencing election out come in Lebanon and Iran while Kenya tribal politics leaves on with no end in site. May be if President Obama can hold (Kenya tribal summit) in camp David, these politicians may learn to shed off some of tribal politics in this country. If Obama can get elected by whites and all ethnic groups in the US..why can’t Kenyans elect competent leaders regardless of their tribal affiliations in this country?. Another way to look at it if a Luo can be elected in the US..why NOT in Kenya if he is qualified?..or wait until the next election!
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:59:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kiptenengen arap Matiangigen
Subject: Re: Kenyans have disappointed President Obama
Dear Paul,
Your writing is very pleasing, Mr. Nyandoto. The individuals on Kenya’s threshold of
power are not in any way ideologically predisposed to be productive in any positive
political process.
Paul, the only solution is to vote all these leeches out of power. In fact our focus is
to look out for newer leadership that is relevant to the needs of Kenya. We must be
careful not to waste our vote in 2012.
President Obama shares your views. In fact even in the Muslim world, he is focusing on
the youth as a way of changing the face of world politics. The older generation
(including the case of Kenya) is so impervious to new ideas – old dogs being unreceiptive
to new tricks.
By old I mean those who are not receptive to change.
You must know what propelled President Obama to the White House was not the unchanging
older generation (sometimes racist groups) but the progressive people of all forms of
life and goodwill. Progressive in the sense of their ability to change and adopt to new
political/ideological philosophy relevant to the political needs of our global village.
Now while President Obama’s roots are in Kenya, his political ideology is
people-centered. His unyielding hope and vision for the USA is one thing central to his
daily life. The spirit of pure public service drives the grandson of Ramogi like crazy.
In every public office, Barack has put an expert. I must let you know that Barack Obama
is not just a leader. He’s an insurmountable phenomenon, and you aint seen nothing yet of
our proud cousin.
Yet it would be nonsensical for President Obama to put Kenya at the center of his foreign
policy when Kenyans themselves can’t vote wisely. When we vote into office a group of
thieves – I say this because one who doesn’t pay taxes is a criminal by reference to
American Law.
Our MPs don’t pay taxes but they are the ones who enforce that everyone must pay taxes?
In America, every person must pay taxes; and let it be clear that President Obama pays
taxes and makes his tax returns public.
Our members of parliament are the ones who use the most public funds, yet they don’t pay
taxes. Paul, can you imagine an old grandmother somewhere in Karungu or Othaya or Majengo selling omena or tomatoes! That old Mama pays her taxes to the town council and through VAT (Value Added Tax).
Kibaki, Raila, the executive, the legislature, all – don’t pay taxes. Yet the poorest
Kenyan can’t sell anything in the open market place without paying tax…
These leaders don’t have the morality to speak with President Barack Obama, or ask for
aid from the USA. You do not expect Kibaki/Raila/MP to sit at the same table with Barack
Obama and beg for aid to Kenya without being ashamed of not paying taxes or nothing about corruption in Kenya.
President Obama will ask them the questions, demand for answers and ask them to end such
stupidty as well as corruption before aid can be given to Kenya.
From this point, what’s our plan for 2012? It’s time for us to understand that the fate
of our country is in our very own hands. We can use the power of the vote and
revolutionalize our politics.
The time is now – we, the progressive people can do better than our tribal chiefs in our
offices of leadership. President Obama is on our side if we decide to change the way
things are done in Nairobi.
We need an unspoilt leadership if change must come to Kenya. Yet “Yes We Can” must not be an empty slogan in our ears.
The time to start is now.
Henry Gichaba, somewhere in the forests of North Carolina.