Why they call us the ‘Poverty stricken Luos’

I write this short piece as response to a tweet by one Mutahi Ngunyi, he of the famous ‘tyranny of numbers’. Mutahi Nguyi is a well-known Kenyan political analyst and currently serves as one of the advisers in the Ministry of Devolution and Internal Affairs of the Kenyan Executive. I am not fazed by his description of the Luos as poverty stricken – for this has been on the national dialogue for several years now.

Time and again, politicians from areas that are well endowed with natural resources, state support and infrastructural facilities mostly done out of state grants and bilateral support programs, have projected their ‘development consciousness’s as the epitome of political maturity. It is the sorrowfulness of raping a victim only to turn around and accuse them of lose morals!