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GIVE a KENYAN THE REASON TO REGISTER AS A VOTER

The common Mwanainchi has a mountain of questions to ask about the ongoing voter registration exercise. He/She wonders why in the first place he should register. One Kenyan lamented that He has so many voters cards under his name and yet, he is being called for fresh registration. Does the govt have so much money to plunge into voter registration yet we have so many of us languishing in abject poverty? He posed. I looked at him sadly because I understood. His tattered clothes spoke thousands of tears in famine. We had fresh registration exercise a year ago, for the referendum. our voters cards are still fresh and not tattered, what is there new that we need to get? another asked.

I do not usually have answers to such questions myself.

AS I call upon Kenyans to register, I seek answers to the above questions. Seriously speaking, the apathy shown towards the current voter registration comes from the growing knowledge on democracy  and its oppression in kenya. It is the understanding that Voting does not choose a leader as has been experienced from the past elections. It is the growing division between the voted and the voter. It comes from the IDPs languishing in the Camps and the squatters Squatting in the Kenyan Forests. It stems from the Tears of the woman in Kiambaa to the Merciless butcher of Administration police in Baragoi. It results from the Tana river crisis to the MRC. It opens the wounds of the Al shabab and the wanton Corruption and tribalism in government offices.

That apathy is not against the IEBC, It is against the monkeys that are singing different tunes every passing day. The monkeys that are forming coalitions yet doing so little. It is Against the monkeys who are in Govt yet are blaming the govt, they serve in, for the atrocities they are directly or indirectly involved in. It is Against the quickening recession of the leaders Kenyans voted in 2007 who now have refused to take responsibility for their actions and yet they are loved to be hated. The apathy is against the fear of the unknown.

As we beckon on Kenyan to register, let us reason with them to note the games people in power play. We got to rise up and supplant the decadent stooges in our offices today. We got to stand up and be the leader we we want and not be the ones to appoint the leaders we are not. The only reason to register as  voter is: to chooseYOU during the March 4th General Elections   

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