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To be a hater isn’t always about hate,  sometimes it is about what it is being hated. I deserve willfully and rightly to be hated for hating the corrupt and their series of premeditated murder of unsuspecting children. I might also enjoy being hated for hating individuals who enter into politics with a ‘DEAL’. I have a moral duty as a loving citizen of the great nation of Kenya: the cradle home of mankind to award near credible checks and balances. Objectively, there are valid evidences to award Kenya a better image than yester years, but that should only be credited to the new constitution and not personalities. The constitution itself as created ‘unsteallable’ 2% and that as painted change. What if looting is kept at 50%? We would have done as the nation the unimaginable. The clouds have gathered and will soon shower us with unstoppable change only and only if the Man in a Tie is committed to the same intended end.

Many have waited for the mail man to deliver change and some have taken to the streets to fight for change. I do not think at this juncture that these staunch and corrupt regimes are ready to think otherwise because their children in distant schools rely on them and they dare not think otherwise.  I have therefore as a matter of urgency set a prescription for the many to swallow: LETS GET THE HYENA EAT HER YOUNGONES.  The Kenyan Government is simply made of friends who came together to strike a deal to foster their economic interest. You do not need brand new glasses to visualize the kind of deals that are only awarded based on the 50-50 deal. Most of the losses the Government encountered was majorly on tenders awarded to certain mannerless fraternities. These fraternities have failed to set certain variables worth comparison. How dare they compare their housing in Runda with upper-class housing in Manhattan and give us a debate on how to bridge the gap? It is justifiable to compare Kibera and Runda.

I have a simple prescription to keep the menace at bay if only the loving citizens agree to enter into a single contract to convince the Head to eat the brats and receive our full support. It is all about breaking the deals and allowing deserving citizens to deliver their duties. It is well known who does what, where and when: it takes slightly over a week to revoke all the deals and make public who is engaged in what illegalities and the people will respond immediately.

The War on Terror: How we are supposed to feel.

There is a great misconception roaming the air that extremism is a gang of the Middle East and parts of Northern Africa and that Muslims are bad people intending to kill the Western man. We as the ignorant masses are fed daily with this manufactured news from the mainstream media. The intention I will would assume is to make the people feel endangered and therefore blindly support the endless fight against terror. Allow me to stir your thoughts with this question. Suppose your country relies solemnly on export of Oranges to feed its population and it is subjected to an embargo or barn from exporting or importing and in the midst the country’s leadership is destroyed? How will the people survive? How will the energetic youth react? The past has proven this ideal of coercing the people to feel that they are under threat as a mere propaganda of securing public endorsement of a mission to destabilize a nation and exploit its natural resources. Several publications and research have proven that the mask in the name of fighting for social democracy is a fight for regime change. The intention therefore I presume is to install a loyal master willing to trade the lives of the people for oil and other forms of exploitation. This ideal is consistent with evils that plunged the countries of Congo, Sudan Iraq, Libya e.t.c in horrors of dead and civil fights. Be mindful that the denominator is oil and Diamonds.

I do sympathize and empathize with victims of an attack in Paris, West Gate mall, Garissa University and those who were butchered at a museum/coast in Tunisia. I also feel the same for the children, youths and families in Syria, Iraq, Afganistan, Sudan and Somali who have been in years the battle ground for greed and terror. Their dreams of going to school, doing business or becoming doctors have been shuttered by Imperialism and the media does not consider them worth covering. The war on terror can never be won because the critical elements that breed radicalisms are ignored or doctored, no one has ever asked  the ‘WHY’ is one willing to die and for who? Perhaps the people are fed with lies to rubberstamp an unjust course. We can simply conclude that terrorism is a condition that must remain the same or more worst. Gadhafi, Osama and Saddam died and we were told as an ignorant people we will be safe,   here we are again chasing Assad and we all cheering. Sudan is now divided but children are lingering in abject poverty and still they can find guns and ammunitions daily? Why the brown people or Muslims? The greatest people of biblical times, the founders of Medicine and Mathematics? The first people to use the calendar? The people who enjoyed and traded with Africans; a bag of salt for a bag of gold/diamond? There has to be a different way of dealing with this Menace and Professor Noam had suggested a better way to end terrorism; not get involved with it.

It is time for the UN to open up and let the people know the facts surrounding certain articles of the statute that were automatically domesticated by all their signatories? What is the Security Council definition of self-defense and use of aggressive force? Were the people involved in the presence of Western forces in Middle East especially Syria? If there is a cause for aggression, does it achieve intended purpose (peace). We do not want another scenario where people die like pets and the same being blamed on terror acts. Acts of terror are inhuman and the inhumanness should not be used as a form of coercing the council to vote for the use of force. Force has never worked without destroying innocent children, women and elderly.

Personal views and it is subject to criticism.

Kalenjin Excerpt: Are we too obedient for the corrupt?

I am a Kalenjin and for that matter a true patriot entitled to a piece in the war against corruption, whoever can argue to the contrary or seek to defy the default should write a clarification order to ‘Asis’ the supreme GOD. I have refused to be and I will not be a victim of “Ingen Mengit” (the ram knows where the sheep are headed). We are already in the ditch and some folks are telling us to postpone life until we get to power? Pope Gregory 1 in 590 AD warned his followers against the seven deadly sins “lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride – as a way to keep the flock from straying into the thorny fields of ungodliness.”        In addition Mahatma Gandhi warns us against 7 social sins and the two most striking in our community are “Politics without principles and Wealth without work”.  When did we begin harboring and rewarding robbers and looters? Are we to say we are scared of people with big cars and that wealth without integrity is unquestionable? We are not clean and therefore we are not eligible to begin cursing our enemies yet, we are tangled in extreme mud and now we have blood and tears in our hands because we have led our leaders commit evil in our watch and cheering.

Be cautioned because this piece is not about them, but ‘WE’. When the country is riding on this rough road are we the cause, the problem or the solution. In my own exact observation, it is our extreme obedience to those who pretend to be leaders that has placed us in this state of anarchy. Perhaps down the road we have replaced our cultural norm of respect to the elders with obedience to leadership. Will there be a solution? Yes, let us all go down the river to curse the corrupt and as a culture we have to ‘wenygei’ and check ourselves whether we are clean. We have leaders who have robbed the country in our name, we have people who have killed in our name, and we have money sitting in individual pockets in our names but we aren’t part of the loot? Kalenjin’s are a great people since time immemorial, they  work hard to make ends meet, our greatness is in hard work and our ability to distinguish what is wrong and right culturally/morally. They win justly in that which they have set eyes on, they win on the streets of London because they work hard.

With that mentioned, let me be a bit realistic. As Kalenjins, we are the second and if not the first community with a few heartless corrupt individuals riding on our obedience and worship of power.  These are the facts according to me:

1. The period I would assign ‘block 7897’, we as a society created goons out of man, who became millionaires at all cost, buried our intellectuals, replaced and engineered an obedient population packaged in one bag and traded for political gains.
2. Our children lack quality education because teachers are under paid and therefore lack motivation.
3. Our so called leaders have thousands of acres of land while the unfortunate are IDP’s and many others are chased around because of the sins of AFC’s loans.
4. A lot of money in our name exists in ‘foreign’ banks but we blindly protect the thieves because of our tribal blindness, we are in fact planning for them to enter higher office.
5. In our communities, we have a number of police/military heads and yes their friends and relatives have a leeway to the same unjustly while the masses are duped for a pay.
6. The majority of our leaders bought for their positions and therefore have nothing to do with us.

I suppose in the interest of our children and grandchildren and before we engage in the battle against corruption, we have to ask whether we are cleansed, for the Kingdom belongs to the Holy. Our pretense and greed has put us into a collective responsibility over a few individuals who have amassed wealth irresponsibly and hid in our backyards. Let’s face the devil in the eye and ask. “What really happened to Seroney, Chemorei, and Bishop Muge etc. who really owns Safaricom? Who is behind the taxation of Athletes? If wiki leaks are true, then we have owners not leaders. Optimism as Voltaire says “is the madness of insisting all is well while we are miserable”. We are faced with real time challenges and before we stick our noses to our neighbors, let us find and kill the jigger within and if need be ask Museveni.

Why we can’t win the War on Corruption?

BBC Four.