As Koffi Annan arrives in the country, have been thinking about the peace message efforts made by the entertainers. With a production of a song by several artists, to put across a strong message of plea for peace in Kenya. For starters, I concede that its noble, and a good move to have staged it up. My sincere gratitude. It brings me to my lazy thoughts for today. Trust
I beg to blame our past and recent governments in their endeavors to destroy the trust and the confidence, the public has in institutions. Even though the last office tried to layer in artificially of course, public involvement in the transparency in running some institutions, and I cannot forget the endless exhibitions I attended, either hosted to educate the public about certain arms of gava I still think, those were scripted performances. To be honest I still wonder why customer care desks are found in some areas. The corporate world endorsed the beauty of customer care, but I think its yet to sink in. We are good fabricators, good at giving the much needed public opinion and keeping private opinions to ourselves, which I find pathetic. That is how we become good at setting up commission of inquiries at every turn, how good we become in remanding suspects for two years and beyond, how good we become at releasing death row prisoners yet denying freedom to petty offenders. That is how, even in times like this…… the much needed TRUST in public institutions cannot come to our rescue. We no longer trust the ECK. We no longer TRUST the courts. We QUESTION the Media’s hold of timely and unbiased information.
We derailed our own support systems, that can bring us together us KENYANS, we have worked to kill what Kenya is supposed to be. If music was to bring us together, we have pirated most of the artists original work, that for them to produce, and even fund charity courses is an extra effort, we have fought in recent time, against our own national football teams, sport would have brought us together, we never even recognize most of our athletic teams, never receive them back home with shouts and parties, hence even now their victory out there cannot be a distraction in our current political situation. I love this country, I love it so much, that every travel that I have made, I always want to show the people out here, that there is something good and wonderful that Kenya has to offer…and good people too. The good places that Kenya has, will not change. However the ugly truth, is as Kenyans, our number one lesson is one rotten fish can spoil the whole package. We need to solve our political problem without leaving a bad taste in our mouth.
Lastly democratically, our East African neighbours still have so much to learn from us , how we emerge in this turmoil, like I have always insisted……. Will just determine how high or low our country will be flying soon. It might be the birth of a democratic baby, that will go so fast before our neighbours democratic seeds get to be watered!
I beg to blame our past and recent governments in their endeavors to destroy the trust and the confidence, the public has in institutions. Even though the last office tried to layer in artificially of course, public involvement in the transparency in running some institutions, and I cannot forget the endless exhibitions I attended, either hosted to educate the public about certain arms of gava I still think, those were scripted performances. To be honest I still wonder why customer care desks are found in some areas. The corporate world endorsed the beauty of customer care, but I think its yet to sink in. We are good fabricators, good at giving the much needed public opinion and keeping private opinions to ourselves, which I find pathetic. That is how we become good at setting up commission of inquiries at every turn, how good we become in remanding suspects for two years and beyond, how good we become at releasing death row prisoners yet denying freedom to petty offenders. That is how, even in times like this…… the much needed TRUST in public institutions cannot come to our rescue. We no longer trust the ECK. We no longer TRUST the courts. We QUESTION the Media’s hold of timely and unbiased information.
We derailed our own support systems, that can bring us together us KENYANS, we have worked to kill what Kenya is supposed to be. If music was to bring us together, we have pirated most of the artists original work, that for them to produce, and even fund charity courses is an extra effort, we have fought in recent time, against our own national football teams, sport would have brought us together, we never even recognize most of our athletic teams, never receive them back home with shouts and parties, hence even now their victory out there cannot be a distraction in our current political situation. I love this country, I love it so much, that every travel that I have made, I always want to show the people out here, that there is something good and wonderful that Kenya has to offer…and good people too. The good places that Kenya has, will not change. However the ugly truth, is as Kenyans, our number one lesson is one rotten fish can spoil the whole package. We need to solve our political problem without leaving a bad taste in our mouth.
Lastly democratically, our East African neighbours still have so much to learn from us , how we emerge in this turmoil, like I have always insisted……. Will just determine how high or low our country will be flying soon. It might be the birth of a democratic baby, that will go so fast before our neighbours democratic seeds get to be watered!
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