We are just Poor Dreamers

The final verdict is Kenyans’ dreams are too boring. And it will take spiritual intervention to rescue them from wallowing longer in this miasma of ‘tasteless’ dreams.
From our top, middle to bottom leaders, old and young, sick and healthy, learned and illiterate, their future life is around visions too blurred and will take several millenniums to make them clear.

Musicians
Our so-called artists lead this pack. The hugely over-publicised men and women of the voice have never had dreams beyond their one-step boundary. Their music, for secular artists, borders only around western love, money, fame and bling bling, and others keroro. Others who have tried to wade differently have not gone so far. They have either been consumed by immorality or embroiled in beefs and Dismissals and its cousins (dis...).
For gospel singers, it’s about how fast they can emulate their secular counterparts; the only difference is that their stock-in-trade is warped songs, meant to offer spiritual nourishment but which fail terribly in this duty.

MPs
They don’t often dream. Fortunately they try to when raising their salaries in parliament, thumps up for them for frequently succeeding in this pseudo-dream- Someone may wonder where their idle minds roam to when they are taking quick naps in the House during important occasions as Budget Reading.

Voters
They dream alongside their dreamless politicians. So when an Mp dreams of repairing a road, for instance, in two years, they will dream along into the fifth year and vote him back without fuss.

University Students
They dream a lot. How to get luxurious jobos, when to oust Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph, how to land a job with leading corporate institutions comprise their dreams. They are good dreams, aren’t they?
However, a lapse in these castles built in the air lies in their oblivion of the damage caused their wishful thinking by their stoning of cars, destroying buildings- including their classrooms, incessant chanting of comrade’s power! These actions, often not sweet music to GSU, have led to some of them being clobbered to wheelchairs or to the world of the blind, raise eyebrows among employers. The hundreds of jobless graduates speak well of the twisted dreams.

When you are not busy please try to think of ways we can dream better. All the best! I will too.


By the way...
*Media Houses seem not to have learnt enough lessons from the recent post-election violence. If they had, they wouldn’t show clear preferences for either of the sides campaigning for or against the proposed constitution. I wish they paid more attention to fair and balanced reporting.
*The ukweli-meter is the most daring move to confront chameleon-like politicians in Kenya, though it’s more like a copy from CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Anyway it’s a good way to mum opponents. I would have preferred if they distanced themselves from politicians to avoid soiling this creative design. That would have enhanced their fairness!

Ruto, Poghisio and Company Would be Jobless after Referendum

Whatever the outcome of next month’s referendum, cabinet ministers in the No camp would be stripped of their ministerial jobs.
In fact the errant ministers are lucky they are still flying the flags months after expressing dissatisfaction with the proposed constitution. They better flew them with purposeful pride and egoism for the remaining days because they will be having none come August.
It’s amazing how the No ministers have failed to realise the game plan employed by President Kibaki to harpoon votes from their regions.
In letting them retain their positions while opposing a government-backed constitution Kibaki is just playing mind games with Ruto and Associates. He knows that allowing them stick around casts a positive picture among voters and allies represented by these lone-ranging Mps and possibly vote for the passage of the proposed document. After the referendum, Kibaki will not be interested any longer in votes and consequently the ministers.
Otherwise what do you expect when you lampoon the same government you are serving? One thing for sure is you will not suck from it for long.
It would have been better if they had surrendered their jobs and plunge totally into No campaigns. Firstly, doing this would have given them a strong position in pushing for the rejection of the new laws.
Secondly, Ruto would have had a poignant point in accusing Kibaki and Raila for chasing them out because of their contrary choice. And better still they would have had all the time in this world (though even now they have) to traverse mountains and valleys to seek support for their stand.
The proposed constitution is a government project. Period. Therefore those campaigning for it are justified to do it all day and night, Monday to Sunday each week. After all they are working for their employer. More so, these ‘good’ servants should receive salaries without any delay. However, those opposing it better not take a cent from the government coffers because doing this is abusive irony of the highest order-just like refusing to sell a butcher your precious bull and in the evening you rush to his butchery for a piece of meat-pure irony!, or someone kicking your face and asking for your pay at the end of the day for booting your naked face. It’s unimaginable. Isn’t it?
Anyway the point is, after the referendum whether Yes or No wins, Ruto, Poghisio, Shaban and company will not be in cabinet. Why? First it would be difficult for them to gel with fellow government-patriotic colleagues and therefore might be forced to quit. Life will be difficult for them after a long time straying in ‘prohibited’ bushes. Secondly, the sheep (good men and women in cabinet) may refuse to interact with the warthogs (opponents) in sheep’s clothing leaving Kibaki with little room but to expel the ‘warthogs’.

YS: Okiyah Omtatah should not bring more matatas to Kenyans. It’s clear his favourite modus operandi-demonstrations- isn’t working at all. Furthermore, when he complains about everything he bores and appears monotonous with his ranting in our televisions. Silence sometime is key to expressing unhappiness and he better learned this trick soon.
YS2: Congratulations people of Matuga for choosing to retain Ambassador Chirau Ali Mwakwere as your Mp. You took the right decision most of Kenyans would have made. It’s better the ‘crowned’ devil you know than the angel you don’t!