Post by Omwenga on May 27, 2017 1:03:06 GMT 3
No need to elaborate as to why this is my Star oped this weekend for I know many of our brothers and sisters from the community agree, if they're able to extract themselves from the yoke of tribal thinking and reasoning.
I am not just saying this; I know many who are friends and say or would say exactly the same thing, which a good thing but we need more of their fellow tribesmen and women to join them and thus the call.
Excerpt:
Upon completion of his rigged second term in office in 2013, Kibaki, in a classic asante ya punda ni teke, made sure the man who made his presidency possible could not occupy State House, by unleashing the state machine to yet again rig the man out for the second time as was successfully done in 2013.
With the dominance of these two tribes in leadership, so has been the case in the allocation of resources across the country besides jobs, which clearly and indisputably favour the Kikuyu, followed closely by the Kalenjin.
This is neither right nor fair as other communities are left to scramble for crumbles, if any at all.
One of the reasons Raila has been mercilessly opposed in the Mount Kenya region is because there are many there who believe presidential leadership belongs there and nowhere else.
This is wrong for several reasons.
First, Kenya, as in many other countries, has never embraced dynastic rule, even though one can argue that the dominance by one community in presidential leadership is no different.
Voters must reject this notion of dynastic rule come August 8.
Second, underlying the thinking among those who hold the view presidential leadership belongs to the Mt Kenya community is this sense of misguided belief that one community from that area is particularly superior to all others, which is pure nonsense.
It’s actually this kind of thinking that has created hatred and animosity among tribes of all manner in many countries, most notably Rwanda, where the 1994 Genocide is attributed to this backward superiority based ethnic and tribal divide.
Third, even though the Constitution attempts to force this issue of not having one tribe win the presidency merely due to its numeric strength, those in power have and do find ways to manipulate the system to produce an outcome they desire but this time we, as Kenyans, must be prepared to say Never Again.
There’s nothing tribalistic, divisive or discriminatory in urging we get a break from yet another Kikuyu presidency: This is just a question of fairness and fatigue anyone objective would have to agree with.
It’s our hope and prayer this shall come to pass come August 8 and we live happily thereafter as a nation.