I say it plainly without horns or thorns. The circumstance that a man has lived in poverty here is no ground for apprehending that this shall procure for him after this brief life an eternity of wretchedness
upon the compendious stay on earth. It’s this consolation that makes some painfully meek, and some eternally withdrawn from confronting the woes of the day stage-managed by Kenyan leadership.
The middle class bracket is expeditiously shrinking, the poverty index I s reaching for the skies, and low wage workers can scarcely manage the month with their minimum wage. Across the river the politicians are dining, wining, and ordering more from across the borders. They don tunics from abroad whilst their constituents walk half naked, thanks to escalating poverty. It’s difficult to deem these leaders worthy of greater esteem when they can never agree on anything except that which spruces up their already too elegant livelihoods.
Inciting violence along ethnic lines almost destroyed Kenya after the contested election results. The coalition government now has wasted every chance to repair those fractures that resulted from the madness. It’s intelligibly obvious that the post-election hecatomb was arranged by people with money; they bought the jobless youth because the youth need something to eat each day. They still make it impossible for well paying jobs to be readily available because they need stone-throwers next election. I’ve heard them talk of “Kazi kwa Vijana”. They go on to declare how they are creating thousands of jobs like plumbing, masonry, carpentry, trench-digging, rabbit rearing, the lot. Pray, each year our universities, High schools and tertiary colleges send out graduates in the thousands…giving them “powers to read and do all” that appertains to their respective fields.
These graduates find no jobs for which their livelihoods can be sustained because the economy is weak, and students are generally taught to pass exams. Not to navigate the global village. You must no longer wonder why Organized crime is on the increase. The engineers, lawyers, political scientists, nurses, sociologists, trained teachers are sucked into crime. Such brains are not small. They easily out wit our ill-educated police force. It’s because of indigence. It’s because of the politicians and lack of policy implementation. It’s because of diligent citizens are not rewarded with systems and policies that work. We must not blame the political leadership. We only must admonish it.