#TAKE3 Following yesterday’s painful but umpteen sorry news feature from Turkana on KTN, covered by the very beautiful Sharon Momanyi, I wonder if do we really need this Mashujaa day exhibitionism. I mean, for 51 years, it is one and the same thing, always. Mostly, the poor citizens gather at Nyayo Stadium. At some point, the president and his motorcade will arrive. And he will inspect a guard of honour. After that, there will be entertainment which at best is bland. Then there will be speeches. Nowadays the governor is part of the protocol. By the way Kidero is a very poor public speaker. Then the Vice President, constantly on defensive mode and campaign minded. Then the president will red his Jubilee manifesto. What if, we just decide one year, the millions spent on this Madaraka, Mashujaa and and Jamhuri day go into building schools and hospitals in the abandoned and forgotten parts of the country. For such days, the president can just go to DOD and inspect a guard of honour and visit a children’s home and it will be just as good. It is a shame that a country with Thika Super High Way has people dying of hunger and cannot access basic medical facilities. Yet, the same people sit on a water reservoir that can quench out thirst for 100 years. Yet, they have oil and we already exploiting it and greedy politicians and sleazy wheel-dealers are already making billions from the deals. What if, the Safaricoms, Equities, KCBs, Barclays, Universities such as Nairobi and Kenyatta University, and other mega corporate organizations, each chose to build a hospital or a school in the Northern parts? Then, they can challenge the government to build more access roads to those parts. When we isolate other countrymen, the result is always Boko Haram, Al Shabab, Ebola, and other modern day evils that are totally avoidable. I think the president should even abandon his planned visit to Nyanza and first of all visit Northern Kenyan and launch as many hospitals as possible, many boreholes as possible and try as much to kick those NGOs that are doing their best (albeit making millions out of the poverty of such Kenyans). That way, we will know Jubilee is real. I believe in the equal humanity of every human being and every Kenya. May the ‘someone’ who will discover the cure for AIDS is a child neglected and dying out of malnourishment in Turkana. May be our Bill Gates is a young woman in Northern Kenya suffering from bad cultural practices and a limiting religion. Maybe. May be the best president the country will ever see is dying of thirst as I write this.We will know we have made it as a country, when the humanity of the president is acknowledged as much the humanity of that woman who sells sukuma wiki. Think about it. Happy Mashujaa day to every Kenyans who endeavors to do his or her job diligently.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:38:06 +0000
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