It’s been almost a month now since Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the 2007 presidential elections. A lot has happened since then - and I must say, democracy has been violated and tarnished tenfold. What pains me the most is the number of lives that have been lost.
I vehemently oppose the police and their use of live ammunition to "disperse” the crowds that showed up on the streets.
How many lives must be lost before our voices can be heard? I believe that ODM was very serious when it called for PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS. The violence, mayhem and cold-blooded killings that followed were never meant to happen. The killing of an unarmed young man in Kisumu was especially unnerving.
What does it take for the police spokesman, Eric Kiraithe to just admit that the policeman was actually caught on tape hunting down the innocent man and shooting him in cold blood? What does it take for the police commissioner to admit that the use of live ammunition was a terribly wrong call? Where is the conscience of these people who have sworn to “serve and protect?”
It’s a painful day for Kenya to have come to this – democracy can be noisy, true, but it should never be so noisy as to drown out the voices of the downtrodden, the voices of those who want justice.
I hope that the children of Kenya never forget the blood that was shed in this past month – a terrible testament of what ethnicity and politics combined can result into.
Pray for this country; and for the perpetrators of this violence and rape of democracy. That God may forgive us for we truly know not what we do…
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It’s a bad feeling what we kenyans feel. We voted with our hearts and lines were realy long and all we wanted was change true change and not just recycle and we spoke and some one wakes up in the morning of 30th December and steals the election. God will see us thro’
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