It’s about a year since the peaceful general elections, God bless Kenya, and not much has changed though. The nation has seen a new phase of “industrial action”… let me call it the county edition. I am not sure whether to say we failed or we keep failing. Are we too afraid to keep our leaders accountable or do we just don’t give a damn?
It’s the same old
forest, the only change being the breed of monkeys. We can only cross our
fingers and hope that this breed is not worse than the past one. A good look at
the county governments and I can confirm that we have broken away from the long
dance of “Kikuyus, Luos, Kisiis, Luhyas…are being
favoured.” We have been given an equal ground to grow and develop our ‘homes’
but we choose to whine instead.
Our leaders may be
failing, the milk is already spilt, we made the decisions…it’s time to move on.
We are good at pointing fingers when we are not doing anything ourselves. 2014
is the year we need to wake up to responsibility and stop sitting but do
something. 2014 is the year we will raise our voices and say no to our leaders
when they go wrong. In 2014, we will break from ok and want more.
It’s no longer
about the future; it’s what we are doing. We have a choice to correct our poor
choices of leaders (if we really did not make good decisions) and keep them on
their toes. On the other hand we need to be agents of change, the leaders who
are ready to work need us to cooperate and be useful. No development is a
surprise project… our effort makes the difference.
An article by Sarah Makena
Co-Founder
Ukabila Zi Society.
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