3 years after PEV, we still have IDP's to resettle with no money or land to give, inflation on a scale never experienced or seen before in Kenya and basic commodities like unga, cooking oil and kerosine unattainable. Drought is rampant and we hear we have not seen the worst of it while the government tells us there exists drought resistance grains at Kenya Seeds company available for farmers to buy. Fuel and electricity have become commodities and services we can't afford while the energy PS and Minister watch their 50 inch flat screens and drive their gas guzzler cars. Fuel is now more expensive than a beer and it’s scarcity is whispered about in conspirators tones like the mwakenya era sedition papers and prosecutions. Electricity we are reliably informed will go up by 20% very soon, even though the dams are full and we stopped using generators last year to channel power to the national grid. Meanwhile we as a country Kenya, somehow gave a one million dollar cheque to Japan. I ask, where are our priorities!!! I understand it is but a trifle drop in the ocean compared to the aid they give us yearly but, what is the use of giving away your lump of ugali to the fat man only to turn around and demand a bigger one from him?
The budget reading which is normally a highlight of the yearly fiscal calendar as we find out what commodities will be unattainable for the rest of the year and those that we must simply forget about totally like a bad dream, will now be a mention instead of a reading. I'm perturbed by the treasury and how they managed to wait until shit had hit the fan before reacting. The minister reliably told the general public at a harambee a few weeks ago, that those telling him to do the mentions in parliament at an agreed time were idiots and did not know their place. Further more this was at the time there was an amount of over 700 million shillings missing and unaccounted for. If this is the geezer who wants to lead Kenya because he thinks it is his right and does things with impunity with a capital I, imagine what would befall us if he were to ascend to the highest seat in the land. The thought makes me want to build an underground bunker in preparation and stock up food stuff as we await the doom that may befall us.
We have become a nation of beggars and whiners. We beg the government to help us and everyday they laugh at us with contempt. The cries of tunaomba serikali itusaidiye has become a running joke like a bad sitcom on KBC that will not go away. We whine about the high price of fuel, unga, cooking oil and lack of jobs but we never do anything about it. No wonder halfwits like Sonko make it to parliament to be the court jester. We could be in a rather bad state or so says the minister of finance but what does he know about our daily suffering and our plight to irrevocably exist against insurmountable odds when he controls businesses worth billions of shillings and has never slept with just a belly full of air as a companion.
Of late the head sonkos in charge have decided to treat us with a bit of comedy in a bid to encourage openness in the hiring of civil servants. There is vetting of judges, senior police officers and the circus that is Willy Mutungas earring. The catholic charge has decided to throw in it's 10 cents worth by proclaiming he is anti family because he has had a few bad marriages and divorces and in addition that he is gay, and I don't mean the word happy. One of the them literally went as far as to ask him outright if he was gay. The term is homosexual and the word that comes to mind about the church is homophobic. This is the same church that is at this time facing criticism as one of their fathers Fr. Kizito is accused of sodomizing for a second time, some rather health strong and violent looking youths who would surely turn the tables on him with a serious thrashing, but hey, as the saying goes, there are 3 sides to a coin.
The world was also meant to have ended last month unreliably, and some not to clever villagers sold all their earthly belongings in order as to carry the money as travelers checks to heaven. As we can all see, the world did not definitely end. Instead, Osama bin Laden was caught shot and used as fish food and the price of commodities and the rate of foolishness of our politicians became astronomical.
Free education was started in Kenya to make sure we develop as a nation, progress and punguza our ujinga but judging by what we see everyday some of our leaders beba the ujinga for their benefit. In the words of Bifoli the presidential wannabe aspirant, "woiye the government is a dictator and is not fair to it's citizens."
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