The other day I was watching a news story on the riots in Greece and thinking about the damage and destruction they were doing not only to the image of their country, but the people who are suffering as a result of the financial crisis that has plagued them for the last few years. The question in my head was “How did Greece get here?”
We all know that Greece is broke because their bad leaders spent more money than they had. How do I know that? Because I have personal experience in spending more money than I have and the results are always disastrous! Although the situation is probably a little more complicated than the picture that I have painted, in order to expose the idea that poor leadership will cripple a country, you have to break things down to the basics.
The Kenya massacres of December 2007 should not be forgotten by any of us, and yet some of us behave as if it never happened. Much as there has been progress in the sense that we have a new constitution, a judiciary that is wide awake and struggling to clean out a mess of 40 plus years, and servant-leaders like Mr. Charles Nyachae, Mr. Issak Hassan, and Mr. Mugo Kibati who have taken their mandates head on and started the work of nation-building, we are continually bombarded with buffoonery that must be stamped out if we intend to propel Kenya into the future.
Let’s not overlook the fact that our failed judiciary took us to The Hague. I know you are about to point fingers at our leaders, but please stop because you too were responsible for a failed Kenya. We failed to protect Kenya from our vices. And guess what? We are about to do it all over again, so I ask – have we lost our minds? Have we learned nothing from the past? The truth of the matter is that there are too many presidential candidates with so many issues therefore careful selection is required. Are we going to vote on tribal lines? If we vote based on ethnicity and not for country, we will indeed confirm that we have lost our minds.
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