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02 MAL21/17 ISSUE
T
here was once a song about Kenya that went like
“Kenya Yetu Kenya Ni Nchi Ya Ajabu” which we
have always felt would have been an excellent
substitute for the national anthem if such a thing was
possible because it caught the ethos of Kenya like no other
song of that era.
Those who remember the bad old days of mass sycophancy,
when productive man hours were spent composing catchy
tunes to the father of the nation exalting him as the glorious
leader from heaven rather than an elected mortal will
understand where we are coming from.
Kenya is truly an amazing country and those who went
through the harrowing experience of this year will attest that
the resilience of the country and its capacity to weather a
great deal of nonsense is to say the least amazing and only a
Kenyan can stomach it.
Okay, we admit that Zimbabwe had us stumped for a bit
back there since they managed to upstage us and actually
have a bloodless coup while we were having peaceful but
bloody elections which did not make sense to anyone except
probably the dead.
The coup, which they were at pains to claim wasn’t a coup and
somehow managed to outsmart the international community
from condemning them for an unconstitutional change of
power, would have been more like the stunts Kenya always
try to pull off.
Kenya is the only country where the citizenry demands
teargas as proof that a peaceful demonstration has taken
place and a refusal of a permit to hold an illegal gathering is
actually a public permission for the demonstrators to gather
and engage the police on constitutionality.
The opposition has kept the government on its toes the
whole year round with an array of demands, the first which
was that they would not go into elections unless the sitting
Kenya is the only country where
the citizenry demands teargas as
proof that a peaceful demonstra-
tion has taken place and a refus-
al of a permit to hold an illegal
gathering is actually a public per-
mission for the demonstrators to
gather and engage the police on
constitutionality.