Mas KaniAn EXASPERATED and FRUSTRATED NATIONIt will catch the attention of any sane person that Kenyans are becoming a frustrated lot. Majority may think I am the infuriated one or am running berserk, but the reality backs me up. A day in Kenyan matatu, roads, media, church and anywhere will show a nation in a verge of social folding.An average Kenyan is a man/woman who is lurking for an outlet to vent their frustration. Frustration and acerbity is directed towards anything and anyone.In a matatu to work nobody dares greet his/her seatmate less you wake up his/her gods, pregnant of anger. It becomes evident that most of the passengers are heading to offices they abhor with their whole heart and intestines.The silent aboard is regularly interrupted by irritating groaning from the frustrated driver that the traffic jam is becoming unbearable. Interchangeably he hoots irritatingly to other equally infuriated drivers.These frustrations are yielding primitive energy. University students will run around thecity for a whole day, throwing shoes and screaming because a bulb has blown up in theirhostel. By the time they are caned back to school by equally frustrated police, they will meet their lecturers at the university gate, thefrustrated dons also heading to the same streets crying foul for low pay. This should cause alarm since this shows that the mayhem has spilled to institutes of higher learning.The frustration virus has not spared the senior office wielders too.Recently, a governor transferred a dosage of his frustration to a woman rep through a gubernatorial slap. This is a close follow up to preceding culture of blows flying across city council mayoral elections. Just a week ago, an ODM nominated MP showcased the epitome of this state anger and frustration, via a classic display of ingenuity he somersaulted and jumped on top of a table, screaming endlessly afraid that his rights were infringed. He aroused the anger of few men in black, who in response transferred their frustration to ballot boxes. The election was halted.This matter of national frustrations shouldn’t be taken lightly. It should be classified in the same category as Turkana drought menace andthe prostate cancer outbreak.Its earlier signs sprouted when women in Nyeri took the law into their hands by chopping matrimonial inadequacy out of their drunken husbands. Instead of listening to their pleas we mocked and vilified them. In what seemed as a calculated revenge mission for the sake of their Nyeri brothers, Murang’a men decided tobefriend livestock to teach ladies a lesson not to beat their helpless husbands. We swept the menace under carpet, and now cases of mothers poisoning their entire families and husbands lynching their families are scattered across the entire breadth of our beautiful nation.Churches and pastors haven’t been spared either. Frustrated pastors are finding consolation in their congregation’s beds.Other churches in race to remain relevant, are splashingornographic banners across their churches to attract customers.Some mosques have also been accused of accosting frustrated wayward jihadists, attracting the indulgence of frustrated security chiefs to make impromptu raids.The classic display of religious loth however was climaxed at Kisumu where millions of youth gathered at the banks of Kondele breathing fire against a mere Sikh statue. In an act which went into Guinness Book of primitivism, the irate youths camped around the statue for a week accusing the sculpture to be the cause of insecurity, unemployment, political failure and global warming in the county.The place where the frustration is evident raw and hot is on social media. Most users here seem to be young people who think life is unfair. Attribute this to unemployment, limited opportunities and unconcerned government. This lot of citizens lies in wait of something and someone to release their frustrations on. They believe that the only way to feel nice is to pull somebody down. A celebrity dresses inappropriatelyand they will spend their last speck of energy hating, insulting and ridiculing. A politician makes a wayward statement and they will vent their anger for a week until they find someone else to transfer their vitriol.I propose that the cause of this unprecedentedlooming national disaster is being propagated by three things: Poverty, Illiteracy and the Devil. God will deal with the latter but for the first two; the buck rests with me, you and the son of Jomo. The elephant in the room needs to be arrested and addressed with urgency before it gets out of hand. We should create a ministry of National Frustrations and a commission of inquiry to get to the root of it.I call the government to declare frustration against life, resentment on government, acerbity against institutions and abhorrence against other tribes a national disaster. In fact it’s more urgent than the wage bill!Have a frustrated free weekend.B.M.W
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 08:02:37 +0000
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