Does najivunia kuwa mkenya still exist

Why is it that most people who go abroad never desire to come back to their home country especially we Kenyans? Am I the only one who sometimes thinks we are too far from change. Just like Tupac sung on Things will never be the same, still I see no changes. I know we can’t run away from problems and also solving problems will always bring change and not just talking. The first thing that irks me a lot about our country is our leaders never take things seriously. Have you ever noticed how things that matter most read Lives being lost on a daily basis never ring a bell on their mind? Take for instance the ever happening disasters and terrorist attacks that have been happening on the recent past. If some of the acts that occur were to happen in other countries, some people would be fired and solutions or contingency plans set up, But not in our beloved country.
The whole of this week our security force have been involved in a operations to establish citizenship of our fellow descents from Somali. A lot of questions have been raised as to what prompted for the immediate action to get rid of those alleged to be here illegally. I am not the big CIA but a lot of questions have to be asked as to when we take action on things that should have been done earlier. Also we need to ask ourselves some questions does it mean that the government didn’t know that we had illegal immigrants in Kenya until the Bomb Attack and the likoni church massacre happened.
If we want to solve some problems we have to start with the main roots of the problems. I applaud the government for some of its initiative to form a special force that will be responsible of our borders and fighting terrorists. But even as they do that we have to be realistic and solve the bigger problems. The major problem that I know will still be a big challenge to our government is the people responsible of securing our country, the police. Some say people say that we should pay the well; some say they should be a product of good grades. Fine this would be good qualities in our police force in Kenya. What happens when some of these prerequisites are ignored is we raise a force that knows only one language. Pay something small and we can negotiate on your freedom. These are the kind of people that we expect to bring justice and peace in our country. Then we will keep hoping and may never find it. To come back to my point I read somewhere that during the eastleigh security swoops a journalist was caught up in one of the raids. He narrated the whole scenario of what was happening and as usual the police would release you from their trucks if you parted with five thousand shillings. See what I was talking about….


To be continued