Sunday 27 January 2008

Wonders will never cease!

While the country is burning in a war that has taken a disturbingly chilling turn, some MPS are busy swapping accusations as to who is to blame for the post-election violence.
Shame on Nyamweya and his team for blaming the ODM’s call for majimboism as the reason why Kenyans are hacking each other to death! What is wrong with these people??? Do they even listen to themselves talk?
While the PNU sycophants are busy, patting their bellies and pointing stodgy fingers at the Opposition, the situation continues to exacerbate. Most appalling of all is the suggestion that it’s upon the ODM to go to the grassroots and plead with the people to stop killing each other!
Mr Nyamweya, does the ODM have state machinery at its disposal? Does it have the command of the armed forces? How much is the opposition expected to do? While the ODM is being accused of stirring the violence, what is the “government” doing in the meantime? Sitting pretty in the capital city, pleading for peace in front of TV cameras? So far removed from the alarming violence that’s spiralling out of control? How much have these pleas helped?
Why can’t they plead for more enforcement of the affected areas? Why can’t the government send more army personnel – because clearly the Administrative Police have lost control? If all they can do is watch from a distance as people’s homes are burnt and innocent lives are snuffed out, then this government is thoroughly failing us.
While Eric Kiraithe is busy disputing the number of live lost in the Rift Valley, the number is steadily rising. Where the hell is General. Ali? Why isn’t he ordering more personnel to the ground? Indeed, he can calmly say that the police force is stretched to dire limits. But how ironic then is it that this didn’t seem to be the case when a whole battalion was cooling its heels, cordoning off the Uhuru Park and other areas where the ODM had planned to hold peaceful rallies?
I feel so violated, livid, aggrieved and pained by this “government.” The loudest voices in that “government” are doing the least insofar as showing their concern for the dying and displaced is concerned. The most they have done is shout accusations to the opposition and order the displaced to leave the parks and chiefs’ camps. What a government! What a band of useless people who claim to serve and protect the citizenry!
Will this country ever heal if the people at its helm are of this nature? Will the children and great grandchildren of this country ever forget the injustice that has brought the nation to its knees?
When will it ever matter to the “government” that the voices of the dying and the displaced are crying out for help, support, safety and justice?
The last thing Kenyans want to hear is who is to blame for what. That can go on forever for all we care. But the lives of innocent Kenyans will not. Time is running out. The people responsible for ensuring the safety of all Kenyans need to snap to attention and do something. For heaven’s sake! Before it’s too late.

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