HARD TALK: RAILA AND CORD SUPPORTERS MUST ACCEPT THAT SUCCESS & POWER CAN BE ATTAINED EVEN WITHOUT THE PRESIDENCY... This will be a bitter pill to many CORD and Raila supporters to swallow, but it is something that must be dispensed. President Uhuru Kenyatta deserves some peace and quiet to govern. I am not suggesting that Mr. Kenyatta’s administration shouldn’t be criticised, scrutinised and held to account. Not at all! I know that rabid Raila supporters hate my guts and the sting of my pen. Unfortunately, the sooner they got used to them, the better, because I will not stop until Raila retires from active politics. Uhuru is more democratic than Raila. Unlike Odinga whose cyber cesspool mafia and urban jungle goons react to my posts by trying to assassinate me – through physical assault and pseudo-intellectual attacks – Jubilee supporters hardly respond to their (CORD) criticisms with vitriol. Uhuru’s people scandalise their critics legitimately. These CORD miscreants have taken to constantly asking me to find something useful to do – “get a job,” they shout; or “why can’t Uhuru give you a job?” – They persistently sneer at me as if there is an occupation more serious, honourable and emotionally rewarding than writing. These obnoxious cyber and urban terrorists know that some of the world’s most celebrated thinkers and philosophers have also been writers. That’s why they want to shut me up. They are desperate to clip my wings and deny my readers the little inspiration I give them in the midst of our national culture of mediocrity, ignorance and cynicism. Worlds celebrated thinkers aren’t remembered decades, centuries and millennia after their deaths because of the amount of wealth they had accumulated through theft or looting of public resources. They aren’t celebrated because of how big and splendid their mansions had been. They aren’t celebrated because of how much raw power they wielded. These thinkers, philosophers and writers are celebrated because they have inspired millions of people and generations after their deaths by the depth and breadth of their thoughts and the significance of their insights. They constantly challenged society by pointing out the existing shortcomings. It is their individual and collective legacies that inspire me; not the malicious drivel cowardly spewed anonymously in the Internet! Noone has honestly and openly written about the type of country we would have had had Mr. Odinga won the 2013 elections. Would many of us been able to live peacefully in Kenya? If some of Raila supporters are all over the Internet attacking and threatening their critics ferociously like they have been doing, are we able to imagine what havoc they would have unleashed on the country if Raila was president? Raila’s supporters continue to run amok despite the fact that they are desperate to see their deity in State House. One would think that they should be trying to be courteous to everyone in order to woo votes. However, wisdom is obviously a rare commodity in the political household of Baba wa Taifa! Raila is tired and deflated but not yet vanquished. The Jubilee government is still young. The situation is complicated by the continuing terrorist attacks – whether perpetrated by Al- Shabaab, copy-cat opportunists or staged by nefarious elements within government. The shilling and money markets are threatened. The economy is not comfortable. Public sense of security is precarious. In addition, we are truly at our lowest ebb of national discourse. We are yelling at each other, abusing and threatening one another instead of cogently discussing the most intractable problems facing us with a view to finding lasting solutions. Therefore, this isn’t the time for cheap politics and posturing. This is the time to show leadership and statesmanship. Raila and CORD supporters must appreciate that power and success cannot be judged only on account that one of them becomes president. The Jews are very tiny in number (compared to the demographically dominant groups) in Canada, the United States and many parts of Europe, yet through industry, diligence and strategic thinking and positioning, they are now the engine of those societies; vital to the management of financial services, banking, infrastructure, the arts, entrepreneurship, investment, media, intellectual, social, economic and political discourses. We can – and must – learn from them!
Posted on: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:40:34 +0000
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