Kenya...How painful is hunger?

  

Date Posted: 1/14/2013 7:01:09 AM

Posted By: pepsy  Membership Level: Silver  Total Points: 594

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Kenya is a country endowed with riches beyond its people’s means. She has abundance of unexplored minerals, a world class human resource expertise rich agricultural zones, successful multinational corporations, immense internationally acclaimed sporting talent, beautiful landscapes and scenic beauty, great sandy beaches and wonderful cultures.
For these and so many things, I am proud to be a Kenyan but such pride and confidence suffers obliteration under the hands of the political class. This is a class amongst Kenyans, reveal all kinds and manner of stereotypical propaganda, pour a lot o f money, win over weak souls through well calculated promises, issue threats and more often act on such just for power, once they are in parliament, they continue on their task, pillage with abandon enrich their interests, protect of successful and elitist citizens whose vision is power and power as their absolute desire. They will kill, they will corrupt, steal, scheme and plot night and day for a period of 4 years and use the tail of the 5th year repackaging themselves for our so willing consumption.
All what they speak is gospel truth, they divide us, turn us against each other, reduce reasonable men and women to fanatics, implant hatred each other from public scrutiny, squabble and politic constantly and ignore the wishes of the masses.
Not a single time do you hear the PM complain that he wasn’t consulted on a g rand plan to end food insecurity, the VP g on a continental cruise seeking means to end drought in Kenya, ministers take time to hold consultative seminars on improving food security...and the president does he at least visit out areas!
All the focus is on politics and politics alone. In no way do I say that the current breed of politicians is absolutely inept

and unable but our priorities as a country are perverted and far from well thought out. That’s why I grin when I see a political campaign in Lamu followed by a news item showing a Kenyan dying of hunger. I lose appetite, I shed tears, I curse, lose my pride, ponder... When will this end?
It is never the right time to change the situation...we rush to the streets over minor issues. How minor is a Kenyan breathing his last on an empty stomach and helpless faces knowing the same fate is crawling towards them. The last death out of hunger, if any, is taking place as I write...God rest their souls in eternal peace...We Kenyans of right mind and patriotically proud will end this!! They say evil prevails if the good turn a blind eye and do nothing.
Those who have lost appetite and are full on remorse and pity are called upon to petition for the dying Kenyans...a call to save humanity. How does the head of a family sleep soundly full of exotic food stuffs while his children groan and turn on empty stomachs...where are the principals... do they really watch news. We will inform them soon...

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