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4 comments:
Kenyan Civil Society organizations have failed. in a country where democracy is but a word of convenience, a very objective watch dog is necessary. we failed early this year when kenyans looked up to us for guidance after the post election violence, thesame happened when the MP's clearly refused to pay taxes. where is our unity? the media is clearly a useful tool, but just how objective is it?
My dear maa brothers and sisters. I want to put a cross what to me is a very timely issue for discussion. I have for a while now been thinking about what the implications of the 2007 general elections and the events after, mean to this country, as im sure many of us have. All the bloodshed aside, I think the Kenya public is finally realizing the importance of engaging in governance and political processes. Despite all the scandals we have been witnessing lately among our money hungry politicians, I think its safe to say that most politicians will think twise before they swindle our cash. I think we all agree that the public is definitely headed in the right direction towards realizing full political accountability from "club 222"
Now to my concern. having noted the wave of change that the country is experiencing, are we as maa swimming in the same direction or aganist the tide? Why do i ask this? Recently during a political debate with friends, one of them insinuated that the maa community was one of the biggest betraiyers of this country followingt the 2007 general election. Reason being, while majority of the coutry sent the old political heavyweights parking, we seemed to have brought back ours. How true is this statement? Is it true that we let our country down?
Now I am by no means suggesting that our people are not craving the change. If our resent engagement with the metropolitan bill is anything to go by, our people are dying to bring change to the maa community. That being the case, what is preventing us from producing leaders who share a common dream and drive as our people? One of our biggest weaknesses which our so called leadership seems to have really capitalized on, is the internal divisions among us(Kajiado vs Narok maasais the worst being ). Having said that, I think we all realize that we as a community must begin to engage with the relevant processes in order to respond to the signal that our people are sending to us. Are we as the young elite prepared to raise to the occasion? when will the Obama of the maa community raise? I think we all understand that change can only come through numbers and numbers through our ability to pull together as a community. Our people are looking up to as for direction. My question to you brothers and sisters is, will we respond to this need or ignore the obvious. My prayer to God is that we will not disappoint. We owe it to this country, our generation, but above all to our people.
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