Statesmen,

We’ve seen and said it all along. Signs and symptoms of a failed state are:

1. When the winner of elections is not the head of state.

2. When the National Accord, embedded in the Constitution, approved by parliament is only but a document. In practice, the previous GNU is still in power. The government spokesman, the head of the civil service, the first lady, are all more powerful than the PM.

3. When the head of state is unable to get concensus in his own constituted cabinet.

4. When laws and positions adopted by the National Assembly, are but only resolutions on paper. In reality, the country is governed by side road decrees, a crazy first lady, and positions taken by the ever too obvious kitchen Cabinet.
5. When agreements made on behalf of the government by her envoys, between government and international institutions are just like the lies a teenager tells to woo his young girlfriend.

6. When commissions of inquiry constituted by the head of state do not finish their mandate, and when they do, their recommendations are not made public, and when they are, not followed.

7. When all religious institutions, civil society, and human rights groups have no faith in Government and asks it’s leaders to resign.

8. When the government is unable to steal from her people in secret, and instead results in uncouth liquidation of assets to foreigners, and looting her central bank openly in broad daylight with fuzzy math.

9. When there is no electoral register, or any safe measures in the National Accord for the next in line to assume leadership should the current president drop dead.

10. When the government in power, fails to make new or follow her own laws. The president issues title deeds and then evict citizens without compensating them.

11. When the government fails to protect her territory and her people in NE and Migingo Island.

12. When a government is incapable of arresting, prosecuting, convicting and jailing perpetrator of crimes against humanity. When a government cannot investigate itself.

The best option is for such a government to resign and let the politicians seek a new mandate. Unfortunately, the government cannot resign due to the impending power vacuum. Kenya is a failed state.

— Joram Ragem
wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (Are you my relative?)
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From: Joram Ragem
Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Subject: 12 Signs & Symptoms Of A Failed State.