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SABA SABA ONLY THE PAIN REGRETTABLE, THE FRUITS A MIRAGE, AND THE GREED SALIVARY


    Looking back in the years of monoparty monopoly one sighs a sigh of relief at the relish at which Kenya can yarn political parties at night and by day sing to its tune. It is quite a pity to think that this is what saba saba was to stand for. If saba saba was to chuck Moi out of power then it took it 14 years to do so. If its aim was to get a new constitution then you had to add  6 more years  to the fourteen to achieve that end. If the aim of that Kamukunji meeting was to put Kenya into democracy, then they had never anticipated this.

   Saba saba can be looked at as stone thrown by a bird to kill a bird, when that bird was never killed then the interests of the birds to be killed were united with those of the bird that was to kill. If you do not know saba saba that I am referring to, the let me let you on it; this was a day that the campaigners for democracy and against the queue voting came together to fight against the dictatorial Moi regime. They organized a mass meeting at Kamukunji to protest this violation but they were in for a rude shock since the government had organized a nice treat for them.

   Many of those whose participated in the July 7 1990 kamukunji rally were brutally beaten, detained and some were even killed under mysterious circumstances. As we celebrate that day, let us ask ourselves, has Kenya achieved what the civil rights activists have been fighting for over the years? Have we gotten that liberation we have been singing about?  Are civil rights activists busy bodies whose main interest is to gain wealth and maybe political mileage?

    These are some of the stony hard questions we got to contemplate since most of those who were in the forefront in advocating for our rights (which we can not fight for) are successful politicians.
One thing that more than makes me wonder is that, this reformers of the early 1990’s have become anti-reformers. The ideologies they stand for are in most occasions than not retrogressive and if they are not, then they are non-progressive. Their agenda is more or less political. Their methods theoritical and their development agenda parasitic.

    They claim to be better than the former yet the greed in them makes them more than vultures. My question is, should we allow such people to occupy public offices? And if not, how then can we the public who suffer at their mercy ensure that they do not turn into hungry vultures that are ready to devour us?

   Kenya is steadfastly developing with politics as her main undoing. She has her enterprising citizens working all day to ache a living and also painfully feed the greedy vultures who are her politicians. Even those who protest against the daylight corruption are still sweating out.
Therefore as we celebrate Saba Saba and reminisce the torture we (some of us) went through to make sure that at least out of the forty steps we made backward seven were forward, we are not subjecting our selves into slavery.  

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