AS VICTIMS OF CRIPPLED SYSTEM, KENYA NEEDS LEADERS WHO CAN REDEFINE VISION OF THE STATE

A beautiful State within the East African Region full of millions of jobless Citizens due to broken systems of Governance. PHOTO /CORRESPONDENT

Commentator on socio political issues Hon. Allan Chesang Founder of Allan Chesang Foundation is calling for the redefinition of the beautiful Nation Vision and incompetent leaders at the helm of leadership. PHOTO /CORRESPONDENT

AS VICTIMS OF CRIPPLED SYSTEM, KENYA NEEDS LEADERS WHO CAN REDEFINE VISION OF THE STATE

By Allan Chesang (African Times Guest Writer)

If you struggle to put food on the table despite

all your daily hard work… If government policies

greatly disadvantage you and are more of a

barrier than an enabler… If you are highly taxed

but still can’t access basic needs like quality

healthcare, and have to watch a loved one die

helplessly… If education has only added to your

misery, and you just can’t find opportunities

because you are neither a somebody nor know

somebody somewhere… Then you are a victim

of a broken system.

This country, and the future that we need,

desperately calls for people who are ‘woke’.

Selfish politicians, strong cartels and

incompetent leaders have their knees on our

necks.

They are stifling our growth and threatening our

survival. Our detriment though is apathetically

waiting on hope for politicians or activists to fix

the broken system. But how long will we wait?

We need people who can champion a new

cause leading to tangible change. People who

can redefine our vision as a nation. We need to

resist and stand up against the status quo.

It’s time to make politicians pay attention to the

needs of the ordinary people instead of yielding

to the needs of cartels and political financiers/

wheeler dealers who only serve to oil the wheels

of corruption.

We need a judiciary that is uncompromisable,

swift and fair – if justice is to be our shield and

defender.

We need a parliament that is more loyal to the

people that elected them than political parties

and leaders that are hungrier for change than

they are for power!

We want to be remembered as the generation

that changed a nation!

That we fought against the status quo and

stood to be counted… That we did something

about the state of affairs and made a difference

where we could. That we did our best, given the

circumstances.

Just as the Mau Mau rose against the British

invasion, we can rise against the cartels that

deprive us of our basic rights, as basic as

access to clean water, good shelters . We can

rise against corruption and bad governance.

Let us take action and create the change that

we want. Most politicians are afraid of a

populace that is conscious and actively seeks

its rights. By holding politicians to greater

levels of accountability, we can elevate the

standard of leadership.

Unfortunately, our education system does not

culture or condition us to stand up against

injustice. This is accentuated by the

diminishing number of role models who fight

for what is right.

Since Okiya Okoiti Omtatah went the less

acrimonious legal route for an individual to

demand for change, and Bonny was threatened

that he would be snuffed out like the Jacob

Jumas… The streets are practically silent.

Waiting for someone to make the change…

Waiting for you… Waiting for me.

Truly, there is no better time to demand for

change than now! It is time to get that damned

knee off our necks! Let us use all avenues to

demand, clamour and call for change. Let us

cripple the broken system until it is fixed. Let us

have the courage to change what we can, the

wisdom to use the best approaches and the

unity to stand together for what is right.

Let us raise a new generation of fiery, firebrand,

passionate activists using modern means to

shape society. That generation is you and me.

If you can’t find a reason good enough… Then

just do it because you can!

(Allan Chesang is a commentator on socio

political issues and Founder of the Allan

Chesang Foundation)

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