I fully support H. E. President Uhuru Muigai Kenyattas decision to recover grabbed land in Lamu. However, I hasten to add that Land Title Deeds issued by the Government cannot be revoked by executive orders because they invest in their recipient inviolable rights that can only be defeated by a lawful procedure in a court of law or before an independent and impartial tribunal or body. Hence, let H. E. the President ask Parliament to set up such a body or tribunal with powers to annul the titles or, in the alternative, let his Government move to the High Court seeking orders annulling the titles. If he doesnt do that, then our President is taking us on a very disgusting ride. Further, I strongly differ with those urging that the President should not recover the Lamu land until and unless he has recovered the hundreds of thousands of acres of public land his despicable late land-grabbing father and First President of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, and his regime cronies, stole from the public. I will support the President with all my heart and might. If H. E. President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta can set the ball rolling by recovering even just one inch of grabbed public land, that is an inch of land back in the hands of the public, and the mustard seed will have been sowed. After all, as the Chinese say, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. What does it matter if the step is feeble? Comrades, in order to win for change, to subvert the yoke of internal colonisation, so as to win democratic space and social justice, it is important to demystify the prevalent mantra of moral rectitude worn by many of our political activists to the self-destructive exclusion of any possible recourse to strategising and use of common sense. Foolhardy militancy is of course at the superficial level, popular yes, but very little if anything is achieved through this route. The intellectual hero motif must be brought to a new paradigm that seeks to demystify the demagogic, ideological and moral convictions spearheaded by some in the movement for liberation and, eventually, emancipation, by specifically asking for rethink and the other possibilities that are available. Acquiescence should not be mistaken with approval. The point here is that collaboration then ceases to be merely acquiescence to tyranny but instead a call to careful thought, and rethink becomes a necessary condition to the continued project of struggle for national liberation and, eventual, emancipation, . Regards, Okiya Omtatah Okoiti 0722 684 777
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 12:13:17 +0000
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