You Should Go To Jail For Not Voting!

Kenya has become a country of whiners. A glance at our social media landscape reveals a concoction of complains that would fill up the Menengai Crater twice. The issues range from rising costs of living, unemployment to falling educational standards and run away looting of public coffers. We rarely pick on anything positive to talk about and have religiously subscribed to the media maxim ‘what bleeds, leads’ which is said to be the criteria of how editors pick headline stories.

While raising your voice against an ill is quite commendable and should be encouraged, raising your voice alone will not solve the issues facing this country. The struggle for freedom in Kenya is well documented for those who care to read. Whereas our initial struggle was to fight off the colonialists who had turned us into slaves, at independence the struggle was against; Disease, illiteracy and poverty. Fast forward to 2017 and though we have gone through many other challenges, we seem to have turned a complete circle and returned to 1963.