These are the words of the late freedom fighter Josiah Mwangi(JM)Kariuki.Arguably Kenya's most conscientious political leader ever. His demands for social justice cost him his life. He was murdered on 2nd March 1975.

SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THIS LAND....

"Kenya has become a nation of ten millionaires and ten million beggars! Our leadership has perverted democracy to mean Government by a few for a few on behalf of many,whether the many like it or not.

It is this greed that will put this country into chaos. Let me state that this greedy attitude among the leaders is going to ruin this country.

Political independence without economic independence is like having a wedding without a bride

It takes more than a national anthem,however stirring and a national coat of arms,however distinctive,a national flag, however appropriate,and a national flower,however beautiful,to make a nation.

In Kenya today,I can only see the dawn of a June morning rising majestically from the white oblivion into the serenity of life.

Every Kenyan man,woman and child is entitled to a decent and just living. That is a birthright. It is not a privilege. He is entitled as far as is humanly possible to equal educational,job and health opportunities irrespective of his parentage,race or creed or his area of origin in this land. If thatis so,deliberate efforts should be made to eliminate all obstacles that today stand in the way of this just goal. That is the primary task of the machinery called Government. Our Government."

Josiah Mwangi Kariuki
(March 21,1929 - March 2,1975)

TO GOD BE THE GLORY - JEREMIAH 16

Before we praise this gentleman, will somebody care to explain how he had acquired his immense wealth.

Nice speech...
http://owaahh.com/the-ey...-a-speech-by-jm-kariuki/

These are the same words Mugabe used to justify invading white farms.

JM Kariuki is arguably the biggest hero Kenya has ever produced. It takes a brave man to stand up to the power elite in the 1970s. It takes an even braver man to go against the tide within your ethnic group. Streets, stadiums and schools should be named after him.

He along with Pio Gama Pinto, Kaggia, Matiba, Mboya, Oginga, Muliro............

However I must correct one thing. His prophecy has never been forgotten. Kenya has been a country of immense ill-gotten wealth amid extreme poverty for the past 50 years.

We haven't forgotten. The reality is that we as Kenyans have just decided to ignore his prophecy because we have been brainwashed into thinking that having a member of our ethnic group in the corridors of power is more important than actual delivery of services or accountability or transparency.

Even the most educated among us is brainwashed into believing that blind ethnic loyalty is preferable to actually having manageable traffic, good infrastructure, reliable water supply, reliable electricity supply, low unemployment , low corruption, security, good hospitals, low crime, reliable police, reliable fire brigade, or other issues that people should care about.

So as we sit at wazua insisting on being ruled by a member of our ethnic group, the ruling class and those connected to them are laughing all the way to the bank, riding in helicopters while you are stuck in Nairobi's nightmare traffic.

And when their family is sick, they can send them to the UK for treatment using the money that you pay for taxes. Meanwhile you have to face that nightmare that is Kenyatta hospital.

Meanwhile Tanzania and Ethiopia are passing Kenya in many economic indicators.