IDP ISSUE SHOULD BE SOLVED.

I sat down and reasoned that if our so called leaders cared for all those people suffering in IDP's,they would sacrifice their first salry to see that the IDP's get a little foundation money to start their lives all over.Is it so hard to ask that ....
Ofcourse it is for kenyan leaders who only think of their protruding stomachs that never give birth.
It is bitter to imagine that men who ought to set us free bind us to so much suffering.Recently there is been an upheaval on the increase of prices in the country ,who is talking about that?they would rather ask of how many cars they will be awarded to and the places they will go for retreats to deliberate on some issues that we never see results.
The issue of IDP is a matter that is so dear to my heart owing to the fact that my grandparents of early seventies are living under some harsh conditions that they have been reduced to accept.what they had accumulated over the years went up in flames plus that which they would have used to teach me of the traditions of my people.
Can the leaders stop deliberations that never get to the core of the matter and come up with a solution that will prove to the citizens that for once our needs have been put to the fore.

Running Away

Every time a politician opens his mouth, I feel like hiding my head under the table. I often feel like I want to smash something especially my small window of a tv, but unfortunately it is the only one I have and I cannot afford another one given the current hard economic times.
At times I feel like running away from commenting on political issues, because politicians make me angry. I know with certainity that politicians engage is issues that they know can bring them benefits or rewards. But unfiortunately for me, writing is the only forum where I can express what I feel. And this is the reason why I have to continue writing.
As I write, most of my cousins, aunties and other relatives are living in IDP camps for having committed one offence - being born Kikuyu and voting for their man like everybody else was doing. They have been ethnically profiled and branded selfish for voting Mwai Kibaki as president in the 2007 general elections. Yet the same is not said of Luos who voted almost to a man for Raila Odinga or Kambas who overwhelmingly voted for Kalonzo Musyoka.

Anyway I don't want to go that direction, because now that is water under the bridge. But I am concerned when a former KANU hawk now turned reformist Isaac Ruto says that IDP should spend another day in the camps. What I would want to ask Ruto were I to meet him is, Is he in his right senses? has he ever spent a night in the cold? does he care whether the children living in the cold are contracting pneumonia and other lung related illnesses? does he really know what he is talking about?
I know that the local TVs have focussed more on the plight of Kikuyus in IDP camps in Eldoret and other areas, but is Ruto aware that there are other IDPs in Naivasha and Nakuru who are not necessarily Kikuyu?
Ruto will say that it is not yet time to have the people back in their farms. He says that the IDP issue should be solved alongside Mt Elgon and Mau forest. What I want to ask is are the three issus related.

I know politicians are capable of using anything to their advantage and what Ruto is doing is merely using the IDP issue as a bargaining chip. In the end once he gets what he and and his group wants he will sing a new song that the IDPs should go back to their homes.

Ruto please stop fooling us, look for another thing to bargain with and not the lives of innocent people.

That is why even if I wanted to run away, I will always be back to tell off the likes of Ruto and co.

Its a deal

Yee! let's pop champagne. Its a deal. It has been sealed and the new prime minister has been sworn in.

we should be happy. At least for me I can now sleep without having to worry much about what my neighbour is planning against me.

We should be happy now that the government is one they can agree on resettling thousands of families who are living as squatters in their own country.

It is my hope that the whole thing does not go the NARC coalition way where suspicion and name calling was the order of the day.

Well the road may not be smooth as an egg, it will still be bumpy because this one is a marriage of convenience. There is no warmth between the brides. The husband and wife both have competing interests that may not be very easy to suppress. But for the sake of this country personal ambitions and struggles should be set aside for a moment.

Lets rebuild our country.

Lets do it for the sake of the children because we do not images of war anymore.