Luckily, the dead have no voice. They have no Legs to walk and hands to hold the cane. If Martin Shikuku was to wake up yesterday, the Taita crisis would be a storm in a tea cup.
The old man's bones stirred in horror as his wishes were torn in pieces, ignored and viewed as the voiceless reason. But how then do you expect a man who lived on politics to die and no voice of political spikes is thrown. Martin Could be a terrible dreamer.
It is time we throw our old age beliefs and patronage to some reason. The organisers of the burial showed total disregard to the old man by not obeying his last wishes. I watched in horror as politics inundated the late Kenyan second liberation hero's final farewell. Voices of yesterday's heinous crime not only showed disrespect but also oozed their power to the powerless.
I know we let Martin die in loneliness, I share the belief of many that he was a true fighter. I concur that he has left a legacy that can be compared to none. I would love to see streets named after him or a statue of his gracing a park maybe. Infact I would have loved to see his requiem mass being held at the freedom corner and his burial at the heroes' corner. He shares the fight of the late Dedan Kimathi and the Passion of Martin Luther, he had the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi and well his stood in his own league.
Why then didn't we respect his final will.
The fact that politics serenaded his farewell portrays our despise to follow simple instructions. We look at ourselves as the only people who are experts even in regions which do not concern us. If we cannot respect a simple will, can we implement a complex constitution? I doubt.
The old man's bones stirred in horror as his wishes were torn in pieces, ignored and viewed as the voiceless reason. But how then do you expect a man who lived on politics to die and no voice of political spikes is thrown. Martin Could be a terrible dreamer.
It is time we throw our old age beliefs and patronage to some reason. The organisers of the burial showed total disregard to the old man by not obeying his last wishes. I watched in horror as politics inundated the late Kenyan second liberation hero's final farewell. Voices of yesterday's heinous crime not only showed disrespect but also oozed their power to the powerless.
I know we let Martin die in loneliness, I share the belief of many that he was a true fighter. I concur that he has left a legacy that can be compared to none. I would love to see streets named after him or a statue of his gracing a park maybe. Infact I would have loved to see his requiem mass being held at the freedom corner and his burial at the heroes' corner. He shares the fight of the late Dedan Kimathi and the Passion of Martin Luther, he had the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi and well his stood in his own league.
Why then didn't we respect his final will.
The fact that politics serenaded his farewell portrays our despise to follow simple instructions. We look at ourselves as the only people who are experts even in regions which do not concern us. If we cannot respect a simple will, can we implement a complex constitution? I doubt.
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