authority and a capacity to keep a secret.
As we have stated in other publications
the Kenyan is not necessarily a strange
and inherently corrupt person as the
western world would like to depict us
and we are certainly not playing in the
league of Americans, Europeans, Chinese
and the Indians when it comes to mega
So how have we man-
aged to get this far
driving on empty?
That is the message
that must get to all
Kenyans to snap out
of the stupor and real-
ize that we have mort-
gaged our future to
live an unrealistic life-
style today which is
based on ferociously
sharing bread that we
don’t have and do not
care to bake!
corruption since theirs is a super league mortgaged our future to live an unrealistic
affair.
lifestyle today which is based on ferociously
sharing bread that we don’t have and do not
What they do have and we don’t is care to bake!
a sense of shame and the unwritten
code of conduct that has fostered an China and India closed their borders for a
understanding that you are corrupt at while to get their act together and they have
your own risk and if you are caught you succeeded and the crippling debt that now
face the music alone and immediately.
weighs on the shoulder of every Kenyan
is the direct result of borrowing to keep
China has gone a step further by making up with an idea of prosperity more in the
economic crimes a capital offence while ‘dream format’ without being prosperous
in the rest of the areas you are expected whatsoever in deed.
to resign forthwith and face the court
process and be ineligible to hold public We need to realize that the bread sharing
office from that time onwards.
strategy does not work and we start to
create bakers and that may mean we go back
Kenyans have perfected the art of sharing to a referendum and decide that we need to
bread that they do not have and the first create institutions in our constitution that
thing we need to learn is that you can focus on meaningful productivity not blind
only share bread that you have. To get the consumption. Do not forget you have the
bread one needs to invest in baking it and vote!
that is where we get our bread sharing
culture on a completely wrong trajectory.
The last word is that we need to instill in
our people the understanding that those
that we elect or appoint into office need to
have a baking ability and that is only how
the institutions that we have put in place
will make sense.
So how have we managed to get this far
driving on empty? That is the message
that must get to all Kenyans to snap out
of the stupor and realize that we have
This cover piece is extracted from the article
that traditionally sits on the Last Word
Column. Being the 74th filing since inception
(having missed only once when Kenol/
Kobil got a ROR courtesy of Evans Kinyua)
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