AS LONG AS...
As long as a country’s president got the guts, the balls
and the audacity to stand on live TV to boldly dismiss and trash a Court’s critical
decision; as long as the head of state can with impunity, at the expense of
the electorate, use his powers to negotiate dubious deals meant to for personal
enrichment; as long as innocent children are rounded up and shot on the head by
terrorists because the mediocre ministry in charge of security failed to cover
their small heads; as long as leaders pocket taxpayers’ money and walk away
scot-free, standing tall in the corridors of power; as long as ethnicity in the
nation has completely compromised integrity and politicians support those ‘guilty’
off open corruption; as long as the country hosts some of the most wealthy
humans in the continent; as long as, half a century down the line, their exist
five millionaires and fifteen million beggars; as long as it takes a million
people one day to make one millionaire; as long as coercion and intimidation characterizes
the country’s democratic aura, rendering staunch patriots into blind sycophants;
as long as political socialist philosophers keep disappearing mysteriously and
no one cares to explain to the citizenry; as long as the government keeps
borrowing grants and loans without justifying the action to the public; as long
as expectant mothers die giving birth en route to hospital because a certain governor
munched money meant for upgrading the road; as long as that little boy in Tiaty
slowly degenerates into an empty shell because of going for weeks without a
taste of water; as long as that beautiful little girl in Matuu slowly succumbs
to the merciless bite of malaria because a certain MP secretly auctioned
malaria tablets meant for her; as long as that thin, hungry policeman is forced to carry a heavy
gun for days and nights continuously protecting the life of that pot-bellied civil servant who works three days a week; as
long as our defence forces are subjected to un-sayable inhumane working conditions in the pretence of
fishing out terrorists; as long as the rich continue manufacturing killer
alcohol that continues to wreck havoc in the lives of the sons and daughters of
the poor in Nyeri and none is thrown to prison; as long as the men of the cloth
turn into daylight thieves and robbers who often get away with humungous
offences only punishable by death; as long as long as Indian businessmen unashamedly
enrich themselves by the sweat of a black family man in Industrial area; as
long as rich landlords and landladies employ the energies of agents to ruthlessly
evict poor tenants for failing to raise that unreasonable rent; as long as the
children of the poor continue staying at home and often go for months without learning
as their rich counterparts enjoy lavish education in private schools; as long
as newspapers every morning hit our faces with headlines of ongoing or looming
strike by teachers and doctors because of poor pay; as long as qualified
graduates are not able to secure any promising job simply because ‘they don’t
know people’; as long as politicians take the masses for a ride, using them on
and just before elections and dump them, then later run to beg them for ‘special-prayers’
because the Natural Laws of Justice has caught up with them; as long as that
that girl in Narok continues living with the pain of being raped repeatedly and
daily by her uncle and she has no one to turn to as the authorities are all
cheaply compromised …THEN you know why I feel BITTER with KENYANS.
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