I am a Kenyan and proudly so; I love my country and rightly so - I mean who wouldn't? Have you seen what we have to offer in terms of scenery, wildlife, human resource, night-life and excellent weather? It's almost unfair how good we have it.
I love my country and would not hesitate to run to her aid should she come calling.
There is a major reconstruction of the infrastructure going on at the moment; Have you seen the roads being redone at the moment? Thika Road is going to be a wonder in the road system that has been; Mombasa road is brilliant from Nairobi all through to the coast and numerous other major road projects spread out all over the country. Thanks to the generosity of the Chinese government and their helping hand, the development goals of the infrastructural kind shall be all but achieved in all of 10 years.
As a developing state, we have quite the list of problems mainly stemming from lack of funding; our road infrastructure is under overhaul thanks to our development partners; security forces are struggling to keep the lid on crime mainly because they are ill trained and ill equipped to put and end to crime once and for all; teachers are working over time to educate the masses in not so conducive environments; doctors continue to dispense medical advice from not so well equipped hospitals; and most recently, people and their livestock are starving to death in the arid areas due to a famine that has plagued the country;however, as a people we still smile and persevere and call it the price of development. It shall all be right at some point as this continues - one of these days, we shall no longer be a developing state in need of so much financial aid from our development partners and we shall stand on our own two feet.
Bearing all this mind, it therefore defies all sorts of logic that our esteemed government (that we employ as a reminder!) has decided that despite all these pressing urgent problems, the Kenyan taxpayer is rich enough to afford 4.7 Billion shillings worth of legal fees for the now infamous Hague-6 - the same six mainly responsible for the planning and execution of the insanity that rocked our beautiful state at the end of the last election period. Yes dear Kenyan, you shall have to dig deeper into your already depleted reserves of money and pay for 6 proposed criminals to get out of jail free; how lovely we are as Kenyans. How best do we explain this to our development partners as they continue to fork out billions and directing them in our direction where we suddenly found the billions for the most ridiculous of causes.
I love my country as I said before and would do anything for her if she asked me to. However, I sometimes wonder about her people and constantly remind myself that I too are one of them. As of the last census,there was 40million of us. 40million individual minds; 40million hard working individuals; 40 million people who love their country; 40million in need of hope. Yet we continue to put up with the buffoonery that is the political elite of our lovely state. 40million of us are herded around like a bunch of retarded sheep by 225 alleged leaders. 40million vs 225; methinks those odds are skewed in our favour.
A time is coming when we shall achieve the potential this land has; a time is coming when politicians shall act like the employees they are supposed to be to us and do their duties properly; a time is coming when politicians shall regard citizens as individuals and not individual votes; a time is coming when priority shall be given to the needs of the citizens and not he pocket of said politicians; a time is coming when Kenyans will awaken and ask to stop being taken for a ride by self-serving individuals; a time is coming when politics shall be mature and not a tool to divide but to unite; a time is coming mr. politician when I shall ask for my country back; a time is coming.
