You kill me Kenya!
You kill me Kenyans; with your shameless double standing,
with your selective reasoning; with your insolence and ethnic chauvinism. You
are poor (just like me). You own no land (just like me). You will die poor
(just like me). Your children will inherit nothing (just like mine). But you
are rich in your ethnicity – you are Luo, Kikuyu, kalenjin, Kamba, Luhya,
Gussii, Ogiel bla bla. If ethnicity were monetized we would be billionaires! But you will die for your tribesman; what he owns you own too right? When you go
home to your humility, you dine with him right?
Kenyans hark my voice. What your president and his company
want you to do (and he's sure you will), is resign to the cheap lazy
conversation of chest thumping and ethnocentrism and forget the real issue. How
the point shifted from the chronic land grievances in the Coast instigated by
historical land injustices to the guilt of former Lands Minister James Orango
for not detecting illegal allocations, I wonder.
The point that people want to bury their heads in the sand
and wish never existed is how a group of people found themselves in the Coast,
settled in land that never belonged to them, but to people who were originally
there, born there, displacing and disenfranchising them.
Kenyans it happened, all these will not end until we
acknowledge that these injustices occurred. They have been well documented in
the Truth Justice and Reconcilliation Commission report and the Ndungu report - of the Commission of Inquiry into the illegal/iregular allocation of public land. They will have to be addressed my fellow
countrymen.
We all love Kenya. If you are young, take note that these folks in
high office today will tear down this country to dust and leave us and our
children this filth that they call Kenya and we will have to live in it or die
in it. Wake up, we all hustle today to own 1/8ths of land in Nairobi when people
are talking of thousands of hectares of land. But you are willing to defend
them on social media, abuse, and murder and kill your 'facebook friends'
because they are your fathers? Your brothers? Your mothers? Your tribe? Painful
indeed!
Uhuru and Ruto are doing a great disservice to this nation.
If they had no interest in addressing the 'sensitive' land issue - they should
have kept off it and let Kenyans deal with it like we always have - accepted
and moved on. Not open up a dangerous conversation they are not willing to
honestly engage in.
I hope no one finds this - hate mongering'. Am poor, I
cannot afford 5 million Kshs bail. I only got my voice, my mind. Those are
free, bequeathed to me by Ochieng Okwaroh (who never owned land) - no law, no
man, can ever alienate or take them away, so long as they are just. I got no
land and am not obsessed with land.
I am Okwaroh Ja' Paprombe. Good day Kenyans
