The events that ensued in late 2007 and early 2008 in what
we later come to tag PEV are some of unpleasant histories that remain etched in
the heart, soul and mind of every other Kenyan. Some were left with scars that
will forever persist, some lost their loved ones, assets were shattered and relations
banished, everybody demonized the whole thing both in religious and political podiums
but one query remained unanswered, who was behind all that? The question
couldn‘t be rightly responded to because some of us are too crafty so that once
we commit a offence we play pious and even cheekily appear on the screens and media to recount events as
eyewitnesses while deep down in us we unrestrictedly discern the wicked mortals we are. Obviously
courtesy of the human in us, we speedily sought for a impeccable place to
shoulder our blame and luckily enough having signed the Rome statutes the
ordeal was not a hard nut to crack, so in few months’ time we received a an
envelope with names of a small number of then leaders who were to bear the agony
of what I would call the slip-ups of our own (citizens) causing. Have no minute
idea of what justice has in hoard for those brothers, ours is the supplication
that impartiality will take its course and finally put all these things to an
ultimate end with both parties finding solace in justice.
However, as we
wait for the final verdict from the presiding juries which is apparently a jail
term or the court not finding them guilty, the big question is, have those
Kenyans who were ‘used’ to execute those injustices learnt sufficiently the
reason not to take part in those irrational hooliganism actions that have no habitation
in the twenty first century? We may take or refer a million batch of what we
like to label perpetrators to the International Criminal Court (ICC) or any
other court of law with a more scratching title but one fact still holds, we
will always grieve the ache a of our own faults. We like to pile so much crap on our leaders
who I may not have adequate ground to justify their actions or testify in their
backing, but it we who hurl stones at our brothers and sisters, lynch the
churches, mime and mutilate fellow humanity and even do other indescribable
things and quickly shift blame as we adopt a holier than thou attitude. The
things that unfolded lately in Mombasa speaks volume of the much we might have
learnt or not learnt from our previous experiences, for a sound mind there are
a million and one ways of addressing problems and dissatisfaction but I bet
violence is nowhere in that list. It takes rationality to know that an innocent
citizen’s automobiles, a church and that hawker who stands the scorching sun
the whole day to make the ends meet has nothing to do with a night shoot out,
why then harm such, not unless you are running short of wits? I greatly condemn
the killing of Sheikh and his cohorts, but friends that wasn’t the prudent way
to respond to such a situation.
When one Warren
Harding back in 1921 during his inaugural speech told Americans, “our most
dangerous tendency is too expect too much of the government and same time do
little for it”, he possibly was addressing a generation that was to come ninety
two years later and most specifically in Kenya. A generation that can even go
to a point of defacing their neighbors to merely draw the attention of the
government to their shortcomings, certainly because we think we can hold the
government at ransom. It’s imprudent to consider that two wrongs can make a
wrong right, it’s the kind of religion we seem to harbor, a religion that has
no roots even in any of the religious accounts of the faiths we purport to
practice. It even pains me, causes such a thick fog to settle over my heart and
significantly feel ashamed to be counted among the present day youths some of
whom have been bowed into mere puppets to be wrought by even the weakest
forces. Buddies, most people at the top of the leadership pinnacle today have
lived a best percentage of their lives; you let them take charge of your life
they will not only destroy yours but also your habitation, few years later your
actions will be baying for your blood and trust you me you may never stand them,
for like they say, nature is always unprejudiced. Remember every act today is a
building chunk significant to what you will be tomorrow and at your exposure
lays the ability to break or make, the choice is wholly yours!
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