Rejuvenating a new KenyaTue, 22 Jul 2008 23:21:00  For almost 4 decades, Kenya's flag and everything it stands for was hijacked institutionalized theft by a few connected politicians and their kins. Its time to be proud of Kenya again. |
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Like a motorway, democracy has to be kept on the watch and maintained and every Kenyan must take own responsibility to expand the highway and its maintenance.
Mamboleo
For decades, Kenya was sitting on a time bomb waiting to explode. The country, once economic par to Singapore slowly degenerated into a garbage can after years of institutionalized theft that left the once world’s most exotic tourist destination technically bankrupt.
With the new power deal between President Mwai Kibaki and the country’s new Prime Minister Raila Odinga, a new democratic space is in force, independent of the two. The new democracy also gives the parliament and luckily the civil service more powers.
The beneficiary in the long term looks to be the public, the best thing that happened since sliced bread. The democratic space will automatically trickle down to the judiciary, colleges and the arts.
But who is going to pay for the newfound freedom?
Everything has a price and the price of freedom is freedom itself. Like a motorway, democracy has to be kept on the watch and maintained and every Kenyan must take own responsibility to expand the highway and its maintenance. This is the price every citizen must pay, no alternative but to invest time and effort to be aware and actively participate in “the politics surrounding your livelihood”
If you used to spend all your time on the farm, you must now find some little time to participate in your local politics, don’t let anyone decide everything for you.
“These are really good days to call oneself Kenyan” exclaimed a survivor of last January violence that threatened to tear the country apart. “I lost two brothers and a neighbor but their demise was not in vain.
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