From: Frank William’s Mwendani N

Contrary to the assertions made by the author in this article, Kenya is fast progressing. The ‘independent’ tribes as Yogo asserts are wholly dependent of each other within a National social budget, economic infrastructure and certainly a unifying Constitution which protects the interest and rights of each citizen.

It is extremely misleading to always amplify the errors of the past as the bench marks for the future.

The Kenyatta family, ‘said to own’ large tracts of land, has been used severally to demonise a certain community setting it up against other tribes.

Yogo has taken up this tribal hate and ran off a notch higher by indicating that what jubilee government represents is a KANU metamorphosed into jubilee, he writes

…” Today, the Kanu brigade is back at the helm of leadership as an extension of Moi’s bad governance and is promising to take us back to the struggle for freedom. Kenya is fast retrogressing.”…

I want to refute this statement, lest we forget, we are now a multi-party democracy, de-jure and de-facto, a ressusfare absent in the era so imputed above.

Kenyatta and Ruto, may it be as it may, chose their political paths modelled NOT ON KANU AND KAMU MANIFESTO but on a futuristic promise to achieve vision 2030. This. This i say, is a constitutional right.

The essence of a general and national election is to raise a political leadership that epitomizes the aspirations of the suffrage…that my friends is not questionable.

What therefore ought to be our focus is to excellently play our roles individually and nationally to better our counties rather than emit negative energy bent on entrenching tribal hatred and putting down the gains and successes already been made by the Jubilee government.

Mwendani Frank
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ALLIANCE PARTY OF KENYA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
A lawyer,researcher,political strategist,peer trainer and community mobiliser.

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email: jungafrank@yahoo.com

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From: George Yogo
Sent: 2013/08/21 17:54
Subject: WHERE IS KENYA HEADED?

KENYA: A NATION OR A COUNTRY OF 42 INDIFFERENT TRIBAL GROUPINGS?

The word nation means a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. That territory within which they are confined is their country. It is undeniable that the country cannot forge ahead except her nationhood is cultivated.

The term nationhood defines a country or a people in terms of commonness of culture, language, history, ethnicity, religion and spirit. In Kenya today, Kenyans seem to be extremely dived along ethnic and political leanings. In fact, our political inclinations are absolutely tribal. 99% of Kenyan populace does not join a party because of its ideologies; rather because of its tribal formation.

The incoherence witnessed among Kenyans is largely informed by the way the founding president ruled (Not led) the country from its birth water. My only worry is that 50 years down the line, Kenya is more dived than when it was first founded. What then is the future of this country? Should we go the Rwandan way before we earn tribal respect and therewith coherently move forward as one nation?

Allow me to point out a few things:

One of the very essences of Mau Mau rebellion was the restoration of land to the Kenyan people. However, when Kenyatta took over the leadership of the newly born Kenya, he used the opportunity to amass wealth for himself – quickly gathering large chunks of land for his family. The Kenyatta’s are reputed to own land larger than Nyanza region of the country. Opposition to his dictatorial style of leadership saw the opponents suffer humiliation and segregation.

Instead of healing the Nation, Moi did more damage by not only consolidating the evil done by Kenyatta, but also by turning to an absolute totalitarian. Kenya fast drifted to the dark days. There was a shy of relief when Narc took over but the joy was short lived. Today, the Kanu brigade is back at the helm of leadership as an extension of Moi’s bad governance and is promising to take us back to the struggle for freedom. Kenya is fast retrogressing.

(To be completed)

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One is too small a number to achieve greatness!