Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars

Boniface Mwangi (Civil Rights Activist) agitating for a corruption-free Kenya

Josiah Mwangi Kariuki a critic of the previous post colonial repressive regimes, once observed that Kenya had her fiscal policy all messed up.

Nyerere, Julius Kambarage described Kenya’s tyrannical leadership as a man-eat-man scenario. In my opinion, his statement has been spun over time to submit to economic capitalism. I think it had everything to do with political and leadership malfeasance – political capitalism.

Beggars are beggars not because of the economic policies that Kenya has rolled out over time, nor is it because of the capping (or the lack thereof of) of interest rates nor is it due to the freefalling shilling value.

It is a time when shrewd characters are held aloft for all and sundry to emulate after being sanitized as they walk through the revolving doors of the reverend led anticorruption office.

This is the reign of runaway impunity and a spiraling silence on injustice. But who are the citizenry to realize that an injustice to one of us is an injustice to all of us? Any resistance merely provides jest and theatrics that are soon forgotten.

Haki Africa Human Rights Advocates and Civil Rights Activists marching on at a protest

Miguna Miguna, Raila Odinga, bear the scars of the liberation struggles they have taken part in, in their quest to bring regime and socioeconomic change and even challenge the merchants of impunity that seek to run down Kenya.

Social media is the opium of Kenyan masses. Kenyans online seek to water down any meaningful opportunity necessary for civil action and instead inject the numbing power of memes and challenges. Like the Miguna Challenge and the Nairobi Flood havoc

An epoch when the internet users are so intoxicated by the muck of the reality on the ground that memes and social media banter offer cathartic relief to the destruction of Carthage (neo-colonial Kenya)

My Carthage equivalence is the new Kenya. Just as in the days of antiquity when the Romans sought to destroy the northern- African city of Carthage, which they did. Kenya’s fate is bound for sudden destruction if the sanctity of the courts and the rules of natural law and the international conventions on human rights are blatantly disregarded, inter alia.

 

43 years have passed since J. M was brutally assassinated and the winds of change have not blown since. The ten million beggars have populated the country even more and the disparaging disparity between the haves and the have-nots is even greater.

In light of the glaring systemic and institutional disregard for democratic processes, the state actors must act now to salvage this regional hub lest it be ushered into the club of kleptocratic regimes.

Part of an informal settlement in Kenya

In order to achieve this and to see the country sour into its destined future; that of becoming a model modern oasis of democratic ideals and constitutional adherence, it takes concerted effort of the sovereign in direct or otherwise exercising power in accordance with Article 1 of the 2010 Kenyan Constitution.   

We must all hold hands in resisting this wave of suppression that is determined to tear through the Kenyan fabric. The divide between the haves and the have-nots is a consequence of our choice of poor political leadership.