Hi all,
This is a copy and paste article done by Mutahi Ngunyi. it sounded more of a true prophecy on things that will happen to Kenya and already they are taking shape....the arrows are all currently pointed towards that direction...a catastrophy of the magnitude that will not spare anybody be it ODMs or PNUs leaders and their supporters likewise.....Our pigs of sty will not do anything to avert it while instead they are just catalysts....they will provide the way to get there soonest and fast.....
Letter to the men of Kenya: Get angry and act
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By MUTAHI NGUNYIPosted Saturday,May 9 2009 at 18:11
This is a letter to the men of Kenya. And with your permission,allow me to include Hon Martha Karua.
I will go straight to the point. Good people,you need to get angry. No. You need to explode with ‘‘holy’’ anger. Last year you wasted your anger butchering one another. And you did this for two ungrateful men. That was foolish.
This time you should get angry and do the right thing. Your duty is to God,your woman and to country. Get angry for country; get angry for your woman. Forget the cantankerous politician and tribe.
Do it for yourselves. Make it personal,passionate and plain. And what is more: do it now. Here are my reasons. Amongst you are a few good men. But these men have no passion,no oomph,no guts.
And then there are the evil men amongst you. These ones are driven and dangerously creative; cold and calculating. Like the pirates,they have hijacked the country. And the struggle is no longer between the good and the evil.
It is a fight between the bad and the bad. I will explore this thought in a bit. For now,allow me to address the woolly men in your ranks.
The good and woolly men are weak because they do not question. They celebrate ‘‘righteous cowardice’’ to escape from reality. The celebrities in this category are two: Mr Kenneth Marende and Mr Kofi Annan.
The two are your typical ‘‘political nurses’’. And you have presented your raw and oozing wounds to them. Instead of opening them and causing you temporary pain,they have freaked out.
But before running away,they covered the wounds with ‘‘historic rulings’’ and clever arguments. Now the wounds are festering underneath,rotten and ready to run! Instead of celebrating solutions of half-measures,you should be ‘‘angry’’ at their architects. Let me explain why.
The so-called ‘‘historic’’ ruling by Mr Marende was actually bogus. History gave him an opportunity to serve you,but he squandered it. And instead of ruling for country and his woman,he ruled for self.
He did not want to look like an ODM operative; he did not want to offend ODM. As a result,Mr Marende pleased Mr Marende. To celebrate him as a hero is,therefore,cheap. But I could also be wrong.
In fact if Mr Marende had not ruled the way he did,the country would have gone back to civil war. Zero! This is a lie we need to interrogate. My hypothesis is that the ‘‘war phobia’’ is a tool of oppression and political manipulation.
And this is why I must ask you the following question: How many of you sharpened their pangas to defend Mr Kalonzo Musyoka as Leader of Government Business?
And how many were fidgeting with their weapons in support of Mr Raila Odinga. Zero! The crisis Mr Marende avoided was actually imaginary. If he ruled in favour of either,nothing would have happened.
Besides,one of them is likely to become the Leader of Government Business anyway. In sum,he,like most of you,was scared of walking the right path. He chose the path of least resistance.
Similarly,and by refusing to hand over the ‘‘Waki List’’ to The Hague,Mr Annan has done the same thing. Like Marende,he is just postponing the eventual pain.
But in the meantime,an alternative is forming. As you celebrate the ‘‘righteous cowards’’ with short-term solutions,the evil men are perfecting their schemes. This takes me back to the contest between the bad and the bad.
On the one hand we have the two principals. Their combination has brought us nothing but disaster. Yet they are the best part of the ‘‘evil’’ in our politics.
Even then,to imagine that one of them will take us to 2012 and the other one to 2022 makes me sick. But there is another concern here. What makes you think that President Kibaki will hand over power to someone he does not like?
Given his record in 2007,he might decide to hand over to a crony! And if he does,where will you take him? This possibility takes me to the other side of our ‘‘bad’’ politics.
If someone from the ‘‘woolly camp’’ does not arise,the struggle will be between the two principals and the underground formations.
And on this account,I need to ask you a question: Is it true that a member of Mungiki makes Sh500 a day? If so,he earns in one week what the average wage earner gets in a month!
Between the criminal and the formal sector,where would such a youth prefer to work? My second question is this: Is it true that Mungiki has about 1.5 million followers and that there is another 27 such militia groups country wide?
What makes you think that they have no political agenda and that in 2012 they will not take over through the ballot? My hunch: we have waited until it is too late to deal with them. Their organisation and numbers can only hand over power to them. And if this were to happen,their leader will behave like Agathocles,the Sicilian.
This was a simple ‘‘Mungiki type’’,son of a potter. He was a criminal whose acts were accomplished with such courage and class that he was invited to join the army. When inside,he developed ambition to become the King of Syracuse.
After conniving with Hamilcar the Carthaginian,he took over as King. Then one morning he assembled the people and the Senate of Syracuse. He pretended to have an important matter to discuss at breakfast.
And at a pre-arranged signal,he had all the Senators and the richest citizens of Syracuse killed by his soldiers. With this,he sorted out all the opposition and established hegemony. My point?
If the criminal gangs take over from the tired principals,they will be draconian. Like Agathocles,they will sort out anyone with influence and power.
And they will do this without discrimination. The question is: Can you spy this possibility? If you do,then you need to get angry and act.
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