Revolution Now!

We have heard it; the hunger of a people cannot be quenched by a tarmacked road. Development of the infrastructure by itself, cannot bring about security, and a beautiful dream of government housing is not a surety of its affordability and maintenance.  First things first.

As Kenya is changing auditor general, a lot of questions, about expenditure, waste and loss of public monies, still remain unanswered. As the country prepares for a new attorney general and public prosecutions director, many cases remain unprosecuted. As the country warms up to a new director of criminal investigations, many criminal cases remain unsolved.

A short while ago, specifically Friday the 9^th of March 2018, the elite and politically controlling class in Kenya suddenly and without any announcement decided to meet and declare a truce. The political leaders of both the government party, Jubilee, and the main opposition party or alliance, NASA, read ODM, decided to join hands in “uniting and building” the land and the nation of Kenya. Without public announcement, involvement nor consultation.

On the 8^th of august 2017, Kenya went into elections as demanded by the constitution. After these elections, winners were declared. Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the elect president and winner by the constitutionally set body the IEBC, after a very heated political campaign that abnormally had carried on for more than one year.

After the announcement of his victory, his antagonist and long time opposition leader, former prime minister Raila Odinga, expectedly refused to accept this election and went to the supreme court to oppose Uhuru’s election. He, Raila, won in a case where the supreme court of Kenya ruled that Uhuru Kenyatta was in did elected in an election dominated by illegalities and irregularities.

We accepted. And by WE, I mean those who supported the then elect-president. But the opposition went into a different kind of frenzy claiming that the electoral commission ordained to carry out the repeat election was corrupt, incompetent and incapable and therefore could not hold an equitable election.

That through the court's ruling, the body had itself been declared null and void.

The court had then ruled that a repeat presidential election be carried out two months after. A date that fell on the 26 of October which coincidentally was also Uhuru Kenyatta’s birthday. That too became an issue and the opposition, of course lead by Raila Odinga refused to recognise and take part in the election citing an unjust and corrupt IEBC.

The opposition boycotted the repeat election and Uhuru won by about 98 percent. Actually, almost unopposed. The opposition led by Raila Odinga refused to accept the election and declared Uhuru an illegitimate president. After which the NRMke, a resistance movement that has since been banned in Kenya, was created as a weapon to force Uhuru out of power.

The movement announced the resistance of several companies, commodities and firms that they felt had participated in the “illegal” election of president Uhuru Kenyatta and called for their boycott. The Kenyan opposition also created a people’s assembly, that would work against and frustrate any move by the “illegal government”.

All along this mess, shenanigans and political games, Kenyans followed their political divide truthfully. And by that they demonstrated their faith whenever called for. During the demonstrations against the alleged electoral theft, Kenyans died. Baby Pendo is one of the victims whose name has remained documented as the face of the deadly clashes that threatened the unity of the nation.

When Raila left the country and came back after a visit of the USA, Kenyans died as the power that-be clashed with the unruly celebrating mass. Talks about secession continued.

Thus far, Kenyans remained divided though calls for a dialogue between the government and the opposition persisted. Kenyans right through the middle backed their sides with pride and prejudice and refused as their leaders did, to reason.

The hard-headed leaders and political parties pushed us as further apart as they could and we, Kenyans, as usual followed them to the coming fall of a nation. They puked over each other, they called each other names but relevantly, they tuned us not to accept each other.

By their sides we stayed. We spread hate against each other and told the worst about our tribes even as Kenyans. We were ready to kill each other for the constitution, rule of law and justice that they kept telling us about.

But then, all we wanted was a dialogue. All we wanted was a mutual way of developing Kenya. All we wanted was justice, electoral and otherwise. All we wanted was our blood earned freedom. Well, we still do.

We called for it, and our international friends joined in. All said; sit down and talk. But then it was not possible. One said, wait until it is time for elections campaigns for 2022 and talk to Ruto, the other went ahead and took an oath against the constitution of Kenya and gazetted himself president of the people.

Where were we, Wanjiku, in their minds as they made these decisions for us?

Kenyans, it is time. We are not necessarily against the newly found brotherhood between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga, two persons who watched as Kenyans killed each other time and time in their names. The brothers.

What we must be against is the RUDE AWAKENING that they as usual have decide that we must come together and unite for their sake and for Kenya to be prosperous again. But yet to answer to the numerous questions we still have. Yet to mention the deaths on their watch.

We wanted dialogue I say again. We wanted a national dialogue. To heal the nation, not to put out fires on burning political bridges. We wanted to, we should, we must be involved in any talk about Kenya. We are disappointed by a meeting between two people, that decided that Kenya should not have an opposition party.

In a democratic state, the duties of both the opposition and the government are well defined. A democracy in other words MUST have an opposition because otherwise there is a risk of dictatorship. Where are they taking Kenya?

Once again unity is paramount, but democratically, it is desired, longed for and wanted, but there never is such unity, politically. It is ideologically impossible. Until the philosophy of tribes, inequality and marginalization, is dealt with, there must be opposition. Unless you are talking about the forced unity, Communism, Nazism and dictatorship.

As and when we, or the people demanded, they stayed adamant. Till the day they felt fit to meet and iron out THEIR issues. Thereafter deciding that for the sake of the country WE must unite.

Like we ever had a problem, uniting. We don’t. We are Kenyans. We are always united until the political electioneering period when THEY decide that WE must separate, split, divide, so that they can win and rule over us.

So, they met, they talked, and they told US nothing. Now, we are supposed to unite while we wait for 2022. Conveniently, just after the finance CS told us that the government is broke, and the American secretary of state came visiting just before he was fired upon his return home.

Uhuru is in Cuba, a communist state that has oppressed and dictated upon its own people since its so-called independence.

If Raila Odinga is the people’s president of Kenya, at the same time Uhuru Kenyatta is the president of the republic of Kenya, where is our constitution? What is Kenya?

More importantly why are these greedy, insatiably, power-hungry people our leaders?

By THEIR properly termed unity, we as Kenyans now have an opportunity to rise up, UNITE and take what is ours. Control from them, our forefathers desired freedom. Total UHURU! We must see them for whom they are and say enough!

We, by one voice must say we love each other and NO to their manipulations and exploitation! 

The elite have united, the time is now ripe for THE Kenyan peoples’ unity, against the corrupt, greedy and misguiding elite. A Revolution!

P Bryan Njoroge.