Youth must ensure Uhuru doesn’t win 2017 elections

The Jubilee government, headed by His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, is greatly inclined to derail the progresses we’ve made as a country in the past 24 years.

This government is leaning and comfortable, seemingly, towards taking us back to the 80s when Kenya was a shadow of its dreams.

It does not interest me to lambast the Jubilee government. Although the ache in my heart doesn’t give me peace to keep quiet as my fellow youth lose track.

Idowu Koyenikan once said, “Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.”

Today, as young as 18 year-olds and as old as 34 year-olds are being led to believe in Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto in 2016, is the same way some idiots in the current government believed and played psychos to the Moi Government. And you can tell that the duo is leading Kenya Moi style!!!

If we will not stand up and be counted, today, the cycle will repeat itself as the Jomos and Mois and Rutos will continue to mislead our young people and take Kenya into the drain.

These youth that ascribe to “Kusema na Kutenda, I believe” shout from ivory towers that Kenya faces nothing like massive unemployment, that Kenya’s education system at the moment is what ails the country (its ironical that almost all of them are bi-product of 8-4-4), that the Republic of Kenya, under the leadership of the son of the First President of Kenya, has made great strides in service delivery, crime and corruption.

With this shallow school of thought, they get their daily bread from the proceeds of corruption, crime and tribalism. They sit pretty and read newspapers, watch news of the scandalous happenings in the government and doze off peacefully in their humble beds albeit content that Kenya is a great nation.

What they fail to see is the inequality that Moi’s 24 year misrule helped penetrate into the Kenyan fabric. Where all was about Kikuyu and Kalenjin. And Uhuru isn’t doing any better reading and acting the same script of bigotry. But they will not tell you that…

We cannot, will not and should not avoid speaking these realities because each day we are confronted by news that top parastatal heads are appointed and they are either Kalenjin or Kikuyu. Each appointment, be it open to scrutiny by the rogue Parliament, will have 50% Kikuyu and 50% Kalenjin.

Do you know how traumatizing this is to a Suba, fishing from the waters of Migingo? Do you know how annoying this is to an Ogiek hunting and gathering from the valleys in Mau Forest?

And doesn’t this justify the calls made by the Coastal people about “Pwani si Kenya”? Doesn’t this fuel Dr. Ndii to hinting that it is time we thought of disjointing what we call Kenya? And you expect all of to sit to dinner in 2017 that the die is cast and Uhuru has won another term?

Nay, it shall not happen!!! A win for the Kenyatta’s is a loss for what we see as Kenya! And we must stand against it if our kids are to have a means of survival.

As we live in the hopelessness of this time, we negate the very strides we made in the Kibaki first term rule. We forget the sacrifices Jaramogi Odinga, James Gichuru, and many others made in the quest for a united Kenya. We allow ourselves to be hypocrites of the fact that our national flag is a unifying factor for the over 42 tribes.

We find ourselves, today, in a quagmire without a unifying factor, shared values or a binding constitution.

Intractable conflicts about land remain unsolved, our new constitution has been thrown to the dogs, and national symbols are a stark of their former selves.

Unifying roles acted by leaders like Raila Odinga are being seen as Vitendawili, religion is seen as terrorism, sport talent is seen as for a specific tribe and region, devolution as an avenue to dislodge the dominance of a select few.

I will end by reminding our leaders and youth of today what Vishwas Chavan said, “That sacrifice has great value in that it not only achieves personal success but builds successful communities, nations and humanity.

Each moment spent in selfless sacrifice makes you a stronger person, and such strength fosters the required determination to cope with adversity and hardship for the sake of others.”