From: Judy Miriga
Good People,
Folks,
This is the reality of people power, getting engaged and taking control and management of how one wants to be governed.
Congratulation Ikal Angelei. This is the prospects of Wayforward, we shall not be cowed or fooled to believe make-believe scarecrow tricks and threats meant to push us back into poverty with inhumanity pain and sufferings.
People of the world is amongst the 99% of good people who honor, dignify, value and rightly empathize virtue of Human Rights. Only 1% of the 99% are greedy and selfish.
Good governance and sustainable human development are indivisible. And we believe we are able to build that capacity for good governance which is able to deliver services, eliminate pain and sufferings of the poor and marginalized. The notions that leadership of African Nations is in the hands of the Colonial masters is foolhardy. African leadership created the mentality and gave favors to former colonial masters so they can stay in power longer than necessary and also the corrupt African leaders dished out public resource wealth for favors so they can get protection against their political opponents. It is greed and the corrupt mind African leaders have against their fellow African Citizens why they want to accumulate power and control for suppression, intimidation and terror that are non-productive or feasible in any sustainable feasible development agenda.
Today Kenya has established the Reform Accord for the New Constitution, where electoral processes now exist. The state will now be composed of properly elected government with an independent executive branch. The state’s functions are clearly documented in the constitutional legal document……….. among which is the focus of the social public contract that defines citizenship ownership of the Government, and for which the authority is mandated to control and exert force to deliver service prioritizing public interest first. The Government therefore has responsibility to deliver service and create an enabling environment for sustainable human rights and development. This means, establishing and maintaining stable, effective and fair legal-regulatory frameworks for public and private activity. It means ensuring stability and equity in the marketplace. It means mediating interests for the public good. And it means providing effective and accountable public services. In all four roles, the state faces a challenge – ensuring that good governance addresses the concerns and needs of the poor and the marginalized by increasing the opportunities for people to seek, achieve and sustain the kind of life they aspire to. This is what the Transitional Caretaker Committee will without much ado establish in plan of action in a short-space-of-time where the Coalition Government in the leadership of the two Principals have totally failed to achieve. It is the Wayforward where the majority people want to go.
Sustainable human development depends in providing opportunities for job creation and expansion, good education system that provide ready job opportunities, structure balanced income to improve living standards etc., and in a wayforward strategy we will empower the people and provide knowledge facilities with equal opportunities that will ensuring social, economic and political inclusion and access to resources.
Where competition and challenges must be met, there must be freedom of creative inventions in science and maths to develop challenging innovations for progressive agenda for success and business development. Investments therefore must not be a preserve of a few who eventually imposes such control from the accrued wealth they amass. In a dictatorship environment, businesses develop control and regroup amongst themselves for the same control of power. They eventually control how the government should work to serve special interest instead of serving public who vote leaders to office. This is the reason many people think that the Colonial masters have a say in African Governance leadership.
When people spoke at Referendum, they voiced their interest needs not those of the Colonial masters. Under a responsible governance with legal justice, favorable Mutual common interest in trading is structured under fair planning and such interest should be made in harmony to fulfill both public mandate needs to balance with those of the investors under Trading Policy Agreement.
2010 Change of Constitution is an opportunity where people of Kenya must make a resolute change for feasible development. We will not wait for a BUBBLE TO BURST when we are all hopeless and cannot fight repressive regime control frek.
99% of the world’s population are after responsible good governance with just rule of law as opposed to 1% of the unscrupulous corrupt and manipulative leadership.
In Kenya, people were absolutely disappointed in the way social disintegration was taking toll on the poor and marginalized where economic stagnation came to the doors of many without any remedy. Political repression became tall-order, and Africans were made to believe, decolonization of Africa is the way to go. This sort of thing is moving us back towards the darker days and it is not acceptable.
Do our people the indigenous local community of Kenyan and the whole of Africa know how much money go to the unscrupulous and corrupt Corporate special interest cartels, where they don’t know much about offshore jobs and the increased ability of Chinese and Indian interests??? …..Of course, no European and Asianic Countries would agree to company terms infringing on their Public mandate interest and life either.
The Chinese and Indians in Kenya are making economical facilities shift to benefit their interest and not those of stakeholders in Africa, and therefore there is no balance, except, an immediate action must be taken to create a balance to the people of Kenya which the current leadership have been compromised and cannot stand against this looming recession in African Economic Stability who are paying debt for which is not of their making.
Policy makers for the new constitution must be neutral from special interest influence so to make it work and be productive. This is why, the Transitional Caretaker Committee will provide a “Start-Over” favorable environment for comparative progress which will create a balance wealth creation fair and mutually for common interest of all to avoid instability and the internal risk of Africa’s blood river, extermination, pain and suffering.
Yes, people, by doing what is right and necessary in our own ways, we are inching closer to attaining freedom from oppressive rule, pain and suffering. We are preparing for a better future with improved opportunity for all. We are our own Change Agent for a brighter destiny………
Cheers everybody…….
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Change Agent
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A Kenyan woman stands up against a massive dam project
Ikal Angelei is helping lead a campaign to stop construction of the Gibe III dam in Ethiopia that threatens the water supply and way of life of tens of thousands of indigenous people.
By Christina M. Russo, Yale Environment 360 / April 27, 2012
By Christina M. Russo, Yale Environment 360 / April 27, 2012
When Ikal Angelei learned that a hydroelectric dam under way in Ethiopia would drop the level of Lake Turkana by 33 feet, destroying fish stocks and increasing conflict over scare resources, she founded the Friends of Lake Turkana, which is demanding a full environmental review.
Courtesy of The Goldman Environmental Prize
It wasn’t until two years after construction began on the controversial Gibe III dam on the Omo River in Ethiopia that Ikal Angelei learned about the project. She soon realized, however, what the massive project would mean for hundreds of thousands of indigenous Ethiopians and Kenyans who rely on the waters of Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake, which is located downstream.
While the Ethiopian government claims the Gibe III will provide badly needed electricity to one of Africa’s poorest regions, Angelei, a 31-year-old Kenyan who grew up in the Lake Turkana Basin, says it would come at a steep price. The dam – which would be the world’s fourth-largest – is expected to cause the lake’s water level to drop by as much as 33 feet, a shift that would not only devastate fish stocks but trigger increased conflict in a region already troubled by violence over dwindling water resources.
Outraged that the massive dam project was being planned without any input from local communities – and without a comprehensive study into the long-term ecological and social costs – Angelei founded the Friends of Lake Turkana in 2009. In an interview with Yale Environment 360 contributor Christina M. Russo, Angelei describes why the Gibe III project threatens the very survival of the region’s indigenous tribes, what it will take it to stop it, and how she has used public pressure and social media to galvanize local and international opposition to the dam.
“If we let go and say, ‘Build the dam,’ it means we are saying that accountability doesn’t account for anything in this world, and [that] governments can destroy environments and destroy ecosystems in the name of development,” said Angelei, who this month received a 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize.