Dear Peace Loving Kenyans,
A spectre of former president Moi`s regime is haunting Kenya. Moi has not only trashed the Government`s task force report on the Mau Complex and the resultant plan by the Government to evict illegal settlers but he has also gone ahead to beat war drums. Much as we respect and wish him well in his retirement, we cannot forget that he presided over a regime that plundered Mau forest and other Water towers in Kenya.. The effect of this senseless ruthlessness is staring at us stark naked. Kenya as well as other countries that depend on the kindness of the Mau complex is on the brink of an ecological disaster.
Moi ironically presided over an era of spirited sensitization of Kenyans on the importance of planting trees and soil conservation. I have no doubt that he knows that it takes over fifteen years for a tree to mature. This essentially means that our efforts to rehabilitate the water towers in the country are behind schedule by fifteen good years! Moi knows that any further delay will obviously put this noble exercise beyond our capability and will definitely lead to the total annihilation of our country. I therefore find it very surprising that Moi of all people can throw spanners in the works of the current Government.
Why would he force the Government of the day to respect the sanctity of title deeds that should not have been issued in the first place? Theft of a public utility can never and shall never be sanitized through the issuance of a title deed. Why, for goodness sake, did he allow this theft to go on under his very own nose? Why is he belatedly acting the saint now when he had the power to stop his brigade from disposing of the illegally acquired Mau Forest land to these poor people who are now threatened by evictions?
What is even more annoying is to hear Moi`s trusted lieutenants like Nick Salat, rationalize Moi`s plunder by alluding to the fact that the Kenyatta regime also plundered forests. Is Salat by any means suggesting that the evils perpetuated by the previous regimes had the net effect of cancelling each other? Let Salat not misadvise Moi.
What the former president must realize is that the effects of the continued plunder of the Mau Complex will not spare even the very people he purports to protect. The question that begs then is why Moi is acting as though he does not to see the universal good in the concerted efforts to rehabilitate and conserve the Mau complex for the current and future generations? Is it perhaps that Moi wants to use the poor settlers as a shield for defending his vast investments on the illegally acquired land in the Mau complex?
I am sure that unlike the over ninety five percent of Kenyans, Moi can afford to import mineral water for his domestic use; he can definitely afford to import any food that he desires and even if need be fly out of this country, buy a home overseas and settle there in the event of the fury of mother nature. But what about the rest of Kenyans as well as other citizens of the world beyond our boarders who entirely depend on the kindness of the Mau Complex for their survival? Sadly they will not live to tell this sad tale.
Moi should therefore think twice lest his words wreck havoc in this country in the most painful way.
TOME FRANCIS,
BUMULA CONSTITUENCY.
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From: Francis Tome
Date: Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Subject: NYC MOI`S STANCE ON MAU IS QUITE UNFORTUNATE.
I just hope that people are not being dislocated so that the land can be handed over to foreigners who have loaned money to corrupt security guards pretending to be the ruling elites in Kenya.
Has any ordinary Kenyan not figured out that most of the land in Kenya may be in the hands of foreigners ruling Kenya with the ruling elites merely acting as security guards? Have Kenyans not yet figured out that tribalism and corruption by public officials are merely tools for the perpetual rule of Kenya by foreigners through their chosen proxy elites? Are the ruling elites so blind that they do not see or feel how poverty and disease could be damaging the poor whose throats they have their toes on?
If not, why would millions of Kenya be bundled into filthy slums like Kibera and other towns while these elites highlight tribalism as a weapon to diasble opponents? Tribal differences are not the causes of corruption in Kenya. The use of tribal differences by the corrupt ruling elites is the problem and they know it!
The ruling elites looking down on Kenyans struggling with poverty and disease are wealthy and well fed indeed. Their children go to prestigious schools around the globe where they are being groomed to take power after their father die.
Mr. Francis:
Thank you for the well balanced and thoughtful post!. Please, allow me to build on your post, Mr. Moi has nothing constructive to say on this Mau forest debate. Under his watch Mau Forest went to the “dogs and thieves” who now hold these bogus land deeds in this national asset!. If Moi is concern with paying these thieves why can’t he pay them from his pocket for the public wealth he mashed in 24 years of criminal governing of this country!!!.
How many times can Kenya public be F……..by leaders and and politicians in national issues like restoring Mau forest, constitutional reforms, Icc/tribunal trials, food shortage???????. If and when elections come along in 2012 stupid tribal Kenya public will be voting for their tribal members and these politicians knows this very well…there is NO NEED FOR THEM TO ADDRESS NATIONAL ISSUES.
/stupid to see Mau forest as national issue for Kenya at large. For your information, lake Victoria or any other lakes in this country, national parks, forest lands, do not belong to the regions where they happen to be located in!. My personal take is that: there should be zero: regional, t national assets!. People like Moi should enjoy there retirements instead commenting on the problems they have created for the country!