Welcome to Kenya Mr.Dictatorship –Kuna Matata

For five decades, we have accepted a system that ensures only the greedy eats. Ours has been a history of greed for power. The greed that makes incumbent presidents fear to hand over power to persons, not from their tribe. The greed makes other tribes feel they must be in power to feel included and get a chance to ‘eat.’  When a people who feel excluded in the eating air their dissent, the greed for power convinces the eaters that they have power over dissent and can shut down any voice to the contrary. They are whispered to by ‘fake advisors,’ to shut down the media, arrest and harass opposition voices and in unprecedented unconstitutional and illegal case, arrest, detain then deport Lawyer Miguna Miguna (a citizen of Kenya by birth). Since 1963, we’ve had about only four government transitions. I read about Kenyatta the first-one who promised to crash people of Kisumu, then Moi came, and I experienced his ruling at a tender age (he couldn’t buy my loyalty for a packet of milk ‘maziwa ya nyayo’). Kibaki turned our tolerance for each other into acceptance, built a happy nation for a few months and five years later tore us apart, we haven’t recovered from him.  Jubilee administration has decided to test the depth of waters with both its feet- that’s worse than even the dreaded KANU era.

                 "Kenyans have been taken to the banks of the river of     dictatorship"

There is an African proverb that says ‘You can take a cow to the river, but you can’t force the cow to drink.’ Kenyans have been taken to the banks of the river of dictatorship, they have refused to drink. They refuse to drink from the river infested with maggots of ethnocides; they refuse to drink from a river fed by sewers of tribal alienations. If the events since 30^th of January are to go by, Kenyans have been pushed to the brink by a laughable regime that wants to force legitimacy.  I’m no lawyer, so in a layman’s language, I would say forcing legitimacy is forcing people to like you. If people don’t like you, they don’t. Mr. Uhuru must accept that the cows have refused to drink. To cane the cows or slaughter them, it’s up to him. So Jubilee must not waste our time and money to convince the other legitimate 62% who boycotted the October 26^th elections come-birthday-party that at the helm of dragging the country lies H.E Raila Odinga and any other opposition voice. We have thrown away the law, the once vibrant 2010 constitution that sent Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza for just pinching the nose of a guard, is now being urinated on.  The dictators are happy, any economic competitor is happy. 

The good news is we have been here before, not once not twice. In a battle between the people and force, people have won triumphantly. Those who have gone into exile have returned to the shame of their tormentors Ask Koigi Wa Wamwere, ask Ngugi was Thiong’o and the many who had to flee the Kenyatta and Moi regime.