Today, there is no doubt that Kenya is a poor country. While there are some pockets of affluence, about 80 per cent of our people are afflicted with poverty, unemployment and other evils, and one major cause of this is the mental backwardness of a large part of its people. Consider the following:
1. When our people go to vote in elections, 90 per cent vote on the basis of tribe, religion or community, not the merits of the candidate. And this is exploited by some unscrupulous politicians. That is why many persons with criminal backgrounds get elected.
2. Politics has been turned into a religion by our corporatised media, and most people lap it up like opium. The real problems facing 80 per cent of the people are socio-economic — poverty, unemployment, malnourishment, price rise, lack of healthcare, education, housing etc.”
3. During the recent cabinet reshuffles by the president, the media hyped the developments as a solution to the problem of corruption. In reality it was, as Shakespeare said in Macbeth, “…a tale/ Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,/ Signifying nothing.”
4. Honour’ killings are common in many parts of Kenya. Political assassinations are on the rise and yet we still take sides instead of condemning the killings in harshest tones. What a shame!
3) Crimes of passion are common and as a leader, I can tell you that Kenyan courts have a large number of cases of young men and or women who are murdered in a barbaric manner by their spouses for some stupid reasons.
I want to see Kenyans prosper, I want us to get decent lives.
I wish to see Kenya in the front ranks of the advanced industrialised nations of the world, with its people having a high standard of living, instead of suffering from the present evils of massive poverty, unemployment, inflation, corruption, tribalism, child malnutrition, absence of healthcare and good education, etc. The truth is sometimes bitter, but sometimes bitter medicine has to be given to an ailing person.
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