The Missing Voices of Change.
Concerning ‘Change’ that which the modern day media sings, preaches or worships, it is far from realization unless the participants across the bridge incorporate certain vital voices into the daily debate. All parties engaged in this so called change have to reason, challenge and sell their ideals based on where the shoes pains most. Perhaps we should dig into the ‘WHY’ Karl Max stated that our history is a collection of class struggles and that the executive only and only manages the affairs of the Bourgeoisie. The statement obviously could indicate that the current media belongs to certain class and that the Proles are yet to get their own microphones and run their shows. If the same end is what is intended then the voice of ‘Serikali Saidia’, the sick or the elderly should appear in the Morning Bench , the Trend or ‘Politics now’ to offer crude facts and feelings of exhaustion from the burdens layered on them greatly in building monuments, Hotels and bridges they will never cross, see or live.
Ideally, when folks in a Show objectively describe the Standard Gauge Railway or Mega projects and how they will open up markets, they imply that every need is a direct necessity and that Mama Mboga will soon be selling in Uganda or Rwanda. Alternatively, the money folks excluding the genuine hustlers are taking majority on a ride to pay for luxuries and other beatifications meant to attract corporates. Partial truth to such a debate will only exist if interpreted as the future tense when every being will be at the same start line. Shows should provide an additional space in between the bench for Mama Mboga to offer undigested alternatives. Mama Mboga understands how feeder roads are as urgent as your next meal, they will express how triple taxation is affecting their children and throwing them into the streets or malnutrition at higher rate. Taxation is necessary only and only if Kanjo does not confiscate Mali Mali, sell fake receipts and your back doesn’t hurt because the roads are as good as an abandoned jungle. How then will folks from Runda driving a customed made cruiser fueled at your expense appear in the media with implicit utopia, selling change that has no direct impact on the majority? That set of fantasy assumes that the gap that exists will be narrowed by dreaming on behalf of the struggling class. Mama Mboga needs a voice to express tangible and most urgent needs.
Politics and political parties are other sets of programmed arrogance that does not respect nor empathize with school children, expectant women, elderly or the sick. It is true that there are two sets of answers to a question: the right and the wrong but politicians always get them right. You sit and watch the Murkomens of Kenya and how they use language to shift people’s minds to believe yesterday did not exist and that tomorrow as they prophesized we will have a direct entrance to Canaan by voting their way. You, being the beautiful women, sit and watch as they seduce you and lure into fantasy. You will think that Jubilee, Cord or JAP is a new era but what is really different is that the few who made into an unjust millionaire bar or happened to be part of a deal were recruited and more space is needed to accommodate them. The consequence of such a toss is the increase in pressure to the middle class and many people will drop into the Proletariat. They should therefore admit into to political benches another Voice of ‘Serikali Saidia’ or teachers just to instill sense into their debates. At least they won’t lie on the ratio of teacher –student, they will understand that the challenge that teachers face is not teaching or money, it is the Psychological torture of constantly seeing and hearing children who are starving or walking half naked day in day out. I guess this will make them weep or numb only and only if they are human and perhaps stop changing the forests as PLO puts yet the Monkeys are the very monkeys.
In dealing with matters of Healthcare as an example ,a show and I am concern with the popular shows for instance ‘Power breakfast’ : a doctor, nurse, patient, Cabinet Secretary, moderator and an expert should face each other in expressing and advocating for that which is success and also the limitation. In such a debate assuming that the usual coercion for compliance did not exist on the corridors: the patient will express the needs or failures facing the sick and the doctor will detail the cause, the leader who always happen to be corporate quack will take the WHY and the WAY forward and the genuine expert will prescribe a SMART approach to the same. In the end a solution will be universally arrived at, accepted and adopted.
In describing and detailing on teacher’s salary it is simply fair to have a set of humans who are aware that they are humans to sit side by side and detail their expense. I insist on humanness so that variables to be compared will only detail how a reasonable person will spend his or her salary. We have always forced solutions into the throats of teachers yet those who sit and argue on their behalf earned a 6 figure salary without including sitting allowances and kickbacks for deterring a revolution. Imagine a show where a random teacher from Pokot is selected to face off with experts and other Salary team. It won’t be much to talk but rather have a screen detailing each individual salary and their expense including the environment and living conditions. Change, I presume will happen in the morning if such voices are given space and time express their views. The media and the state have engaged in covert tactics to mask what is really happening in the real setting. Change can be as good as rest but what is really change if ignorance is a priority and statistics serves only the interest of the rich. Give a voice to the voiceless, give them a podium and you will be ashamed of the bread you enjoy at the expense of their starvation.
Personal views subject to debate.
Mshamba Abroad 