It is yet
another Mashujaa Day as President Uhuru Kenyatta leads the nation in
celebrating our heroes who shed blood to liberate this great land from the yolk
of colonialists.
A day when
we shed off our real ukenya skin of corrupt souls, ethnicity and love for cheap
politics at least for a day, led by our political class and pretend to profess
love for Kenya.
The day when
the president talks big in his eagerly-awaited speech and all of a sudden, we
feel Kenyan, away from the many self-afflicted wounds that we suffer from.
Yet as
Mashujaa Day is marked in Machakos County, where the president has decided to
lead the nation from, let us go for a self-examining voyage and seek lasting
solutions to our troubles
.
Corruption
has nearly crippled our economy and the National Youth Service scandal is still
fresh, with the suspects walking free after fleecing the public bourse!
Extra-judicial
killings have blotted the name of many of our professional police officers. The
chilling murders of Jacob Juma and Willie Kimani, despite the publicity created
by both incidents have not seen much light and the wheels of justice are yet to
come full cycle!
The Eurobond
affair raised more questions than answers as the government turned it into a
public relations game instead of giving answers to the tough questions.
Tribe is
still the triumph card in our politics and appointment to public jobs still
relies on the pronunciation of your first name!
We are
agonizing as a nation because of the three key issues that are fast leading us
to destruction.
When today’s
political noise goes down and the people of Machakos see off the head of state,
we will go back to the real nation where we all take part in ruining a great
land!
Can we be
true to self and nation and take bold steps to realize the dreams of our
fore-fathers who gallantly fought for our freedom, in the hope of seeing future
generations lead good lives and realize their dreams?
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