From: Albert Onduru
Having seen the development efforts in Luo land for the past 15 years, I want to put forth a suggestion. I worked in Kangema area for more than 2 years and got a chance to see first-hand what the Hon. Michuki and other parliamentarians from Central Kenya do. Firstly, they do not kill initiatives of development from any source and do not put road-blocks to them. Secondly, they are ever at home with a road-map of what they want to achieve within a certain period. Thirdly, they personally monitor all development projects progress by progress and each weekend is a busy monitoring visit with meetings to discuss what can be done. Fourthly, they inspire and encourage the people to invest in opportunities which their thank-tanks have come up with. In that way they open up a lot of opportunities for the people on different fronts. The best examples here are the late Hon. Michuki and Peter Kenneth. What about the Luo leaders?
Unless you follow them and dance to their tunes which are devoid of fast tracking development, then you are not welcome. Hon. Michuki changed the face of Kangema from scratch to where it is now. When you see them mourn, they are mourning with a lot of pain. Van the Luo leaders have meaningful development agenda for their electorate? I feel saddened and ashamed as some of them have been in leadership positions for a long time but all they do is blame the government of the day and utter too many words that do not add up any cubits of development to the land. Wake up luo leaders and I urge the electorate to vet the leaders carefully before voting them to positions of leadership.
Yawa jothurwa wyaw wengewa kend warang matut kapok wayiero jotelo. Wach mar devolution nyalo bedo maber to kendo nyalo bedo yuak gi mwodo lak ka ok waparo kendo yiero matut. Walokuru paro kendo waparane kaka wnayalo bedo gi buche gi riwruok mag dongruok to ok mag tho gi liete kende. Sani tho gi liete onego obed by-the-way to ok ni e chuny weche mag riwruok. Oganda moko koromo to paro mana kaka ginyalo yawo dongruok e gwengegi to ok yalo weche mag tero liete pacho. Wapar matut asayou
joKanyanam.
Thanks
Onduru, you have fully captured my thoughts about Luoland. The ball is in the court of the electorates in Luoland. If “Gonya” is entrenched the way I see it becoming the norm, then, you will just get “Gonywa Leaders” who will keep you permanently poor! You should remember that a leader who is practicing “gonyo” is simply doing investment which he hopes to profit on after the elections.
This is a true story. Let our leaders mobilise everybody towords developments.
Once luo leaders have been elected ,their presence in the community because
very rare indeed. Most of them,immediately they are elected, they start behaving
like bosses not knowing that they are servants of their electorates.
Running from being responsible,they have formed a bit of handle everybody
casually on very important issues affected community and individuals.They are
never serious anything. To escape serious developmental talks,these leaders have introduced youth to bribery by given them small money called ‘goya’.
Our political leaders are the agents of underdevelopments in luoland.
It is high you leaders to start knowing that the voter is the boss. You start
treating voters with respect they deserve. Stop bribing the youth and concentrate
on the overall strategy of uplifting the standard of living for everybody.
Onduru has hit the nail on the head. We must turn our back to the acursed culture of jealousy, arogance, and that of trying to outshine others by suppressing them if we as a community are to develp in any field.
With our population we can run conglomerastes. But what do we do? Wrong people will be elected because people’s choice is ”good” for the party boss.
We must wake up to the fact there is security in crowd and we are quite a crowd anyway. A few rich people among millions of the poor are at a great risk because when the sleeping poor giants awake they would be destroyed by the anger of the downtroden.
DR ODIDA OKUTHE