Ramadhan - 2008-12-10 03:35:34

 

THE YOUTH ARE A THREAT TO MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS.

 

By Ramadhan Wahy Rajab

 

The societal paralysis we are facing today is because we have allowed transformation of our society into a society of ‘garbage collectors’ and apes.

 

The gradual erosion in our culture and vast adaptation to obnoxious lifestyle trends by the young generation, is clearly sounding a death knell to the realization of any economic strides that will alleviate us from poverty.

 

The weakening of the societal fabric is moving third world nations further from achieving their ambitious Millennium Development Goals (MDGs.) Kenya being the worst affected.

 

Those seen as steering this programmes seems not ready to pick up the mantle. They remain with a consolation that they are future leaders. To put it candidly they are future Failures.

 

Kenya is evolving as a nation where boys are up in competition with their mother’s makeup they want to have the latest hairdo. They are out to look like their mothers. They are fighting to be feminine. On the other hand the youthful ladies are busy searching for latest trends worse even some want to be like their fathers.

The ladies are quick to demand for gender equity while they are not ready to take the mantle to justify their claims. They only sit to seek favors. The boys on other hand want to get rich quickly. Where on earth can you pluck money without working for it? It is even biblical that hard work pays.

Our youth want to have money that they are not ready to look for. This is why they go for queer means of looking for money. They turn out to spend thriftily where savings is highly abhorred. It sad to see the youths copying everything from the whites because it is morally right but its sound palatable to the age brackets. Others copy to experiment not involving their consent. What society are the youths building?

 

When did the rain start falling on us? Identifying this may be the only   prescription to revert the rot threatening to throw the economy and the country to the dogs. We’ve nurtured a TV society where kids as young as three years are glued to TV screens for hours.

Videos and latest movies have remained the major rewards to children by their parents. Hard work and struggle is no longer encouraged. We are seeing youth who want things to come their way without working. I fault the parents who are giving out the fish to their kids and reluctant to show them how to fish.

The modern youths are prone to handouts that they misuse in stupid entertainment. Parents do this to please their ever cuddled and pampered children. You wonder why Africa despite its potential still lags behind in almost everything and charity remains the only source of livelihood?

 It is explained better and understood that the youths have never been shown the way to rise and prove their worth. We have remained with notions that there are no opportunities for the youth.

The old guards have stuck on the throne. But one question begs; where are the youth to demand and agitate for these positions? We are either being used by the political elite to maim, and harass their opponents, only to come and mouth after they dump us immediately when their selfish desires are met. We don’t stop even for minute to think of the day after tomorrow. We bite fingers and blame almost everything on everyone while we are savages.

 

As much as we would like to celebrate Obama’s victory, we should not count ourselves as winners if we are still clinging on the past. Obama’s hope should be a driving force, we cannot achieve this by sitting back and expect results. We should prove ourselves by coming out with credentials and well built personalities.

The Kenyan youths way of life should be dumped far from reach. The celebration of life in terms of entertainment and liquor should not be part of punctuations for them, but hard work and sacrifice of magnitude. Lets celebrate our life in terms of output in steering the economic wheel.

 

John F Kennedy adage reminds us that the future of a nation is determined by the current prospects of the youths. Lets start it today so that we finish it tomorrow.

 

Ramadhan - 2008-12-10 02:37:36

THE YOUTH ARE A THREAT TO MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

 

By Ramadhan Wahy Rajab

 

The societal paralysis we are facing today is because we have allowed transformation of our society into a society of ‘garbage collectors’ and apes.

 

The gradual erosion in our culture and vast adaptation to obnoxious lifestyle trends by the young generation, is clearly sounding a death knell to the realization of any economic strides that will alleviate us from poverty.

 

The weakening of the societal fabric is moving third world nations further from achieving their ambitious Millennium Development Goals (MDGs.) Kenya being the worst affected.

 

Those seen as steering this programmes seems not ready to pick up the mantle. They remain with a consolation that they are future leaders. To put it candidly they are future Failures.

 

Kenya is evolving as a nation where boys are up in competition with their mother’s makeup they want to have the latest hairdo. They are out to look like their mothers. They are fighting to be feminine. On the other hand the youthful ladies are busy searching for latest trends worse even some want to be like their fathers.

The ladies are quick to demand for gender equity while they are not ready to take the mantle to justify their claims. They only sit to seek favors. The boys on other hand want to get rich quickly. Where on earth can you pluck money without working for it? It is even biblical that hard work pays.

Our youth want to have money that they are not ready to look for. This is why they go for queer means of looking for money. They turn out to spend thriftily where savings is highly abhorred. It sad to see the youths copying everything from the whites because it is morally right but its sound palatable to the age brackets. Others copy to experiment not involving their consent. What society are the youths building?

 

When did the rain start falling on us? Identifying this may be the only   prescription to revert the rot threatening to throw the economy and the country to the dogs. We’ve nurtured a TV society where kids as young as three years are glued to TV screens for hours.

Videos and latest movies have remained the major rewards to children by their parents. Hard work and struggle is no longer encouraged. We are seeing youth who want things to come their way without working. I fault the parents who are giving out the fish to their kids and reluctant to show them how to fish.

The modern youths are prone to handouts that they misuse in stupid entertainment. Parents do this to please their ever cuddled and pampered children. You wonder why Africa despite its potential still lags behind in almost everything and charity remains the only source of livelihood?

 It is explained better and understood that the youths have never been shown the way to rise and prove their worth. We have remained with notions that there are no opportunities for the youth.

The old guards have stuck on the throne. But one question begs; where are the youth to demand and agitate for these positions? We are either being used by the political elite to maim, and harass their opponents, only to come and mouth after they dump us immediately when their selfish desires are met. We don’t stop even for minute to think of the day after tomorrow. We bite fingers and blame almost everything on everyone while we are savages.

 

As much as we would like to celebrate Obama’s victory, we should not count ourselves as winners if we are still clinging on the past. Obama’s hope should be a driving force, we cannot achieve this by sitting back and expect results. We should prove ourselves by coming out with credentials and well built personalities.

The Kenyan youths way of life should be dumped far from reach. The celebration of life in terms of entertainment and liquor should not be part of punctuations for them, but hard work and sacrifice of magnitude. Lets celebrate our life in terms of output in steering the economic wheel.

 

John F Kennedy adage reminds us that the future of a nation is determined by the current prospects of the youths. Lets start it today so that we finish it tomorrow.

Ramadhan - 2008-12-10 02:32:18

Culture Of Impunity Has to End With Proper Implementation Of Waki Report. Ignore the Political Class.

 

 

 

 ‘Sir, I say that justice is truth in action,’ goes a former British Prime Minister and Novelist Benjamin Disraeli’s adage. Where are those politicians who have been crying for justice to implement the Waki report?

 The Kenyan transitions contrary to changing the country for the better, they are hell-bent on linking the past and present with atrocities. The scar of the post election violence is still fresh but it is sickening to see in a rare show of unity some politicians in unison ululating for the demise of a report that they clapped for its formation and now other suggesting for amnesty. For those politicians who have seen the need for its implementation, thumbs up.  A report that has long been waited used taxpayer’s money, a report that could settle the dust of prejudice and suspicion among the Kenyan. A report that could see the culture of impunity die. A report that could see Kenyans face the future with unbridled hope.  The report is being trashed us if a nursery kid did it. Some politicians want to make it lack the credibility it deserves. Not because it is bad nor something of the sort but those politicians against it only want to earn a political mileage by hiding their friends who are implicated in the post elections violence that left more than 1000 innocent Kenyan dead, thousands left homeless till today, as numerous youths still languish in jail and cells. It is ridiculous and shameful to see a politician authoritatively claim that the report is based on romours, speculations, conjecture, supposition and hearsay. Is this not contempt Hon. Wako? I doubt if the politician was putting his people’s interest first. I doubt if those IDP’s matter to him. I doubt if he cares about the future of this country and the generations to come. To him the party and his colleagues whom he is trying to defend take a centre stage. To him nothing happened and nothing need not to be done, but prepare the people for another post election violence come 2012 when Kenyan go to another election. Where they will hire gangs and maim their opponents to meet their political ends. To him sounding politically correct surpass any other interests. To some are seeking amnesties for their political friends who played key roles in the violence, whereas those who fought for them still are locked up in cells. Still those who were uprooted from their home are spending cold nights without anything to eat at IDP camps countrywide. One wonders how politicians can be this insincere and inhuman. If amnesty should be the case and which this article is not out to advocate for, let it come from those who felt the brunt of the post election violence not from politicians who could use our money to afford tight security for their families and property if worst come to worst again.

 

What we yearned for years is now being buried, as we watch come 2012 we will still bite fingers and point accusing fingers at everyone. This is our time to stand as a nation and agitate for not a fragile but lasting death of a culture of impunity. It is time for Kenyan to come up and stand against this crop of politicians who are a major cause to our long suffering, societal, economic paralysis. They have weakened the public institutions for selfish gains. Part two, chapter one of the Waki Report points that, to the political class everything flows not from Law but from personal decision and influence. This leaves many questions begging, if the Waki report has to be left in their hands. First how can you be a judge in your own case? Why cant the nation devise laws to govern the political elites as it is now, it seems the politicians are above the common law of the land? So are our judicial systems capable of handling such cases of high magnitude (Waki Report), if the Kiliku Parliamentary Committee, Human Rights Watch and Akiwumu Commission reports passed and are gathering dust but non of the perpetrators has since been punished. The Kenyan case is not different from the Rwanda genocide or now the Congo muddle. Just like Ex-Liberia president who is on trial at War Crimes Tribunal in Amsterdam Netherlands our politicians implicated in Waki report should not be spared either. An issue of unearthing healing wounds should not be a scapegoat. It has worked elsewhere why not in Kenya. For instance, former leaders of Cambodia are in the duck, once all-powerful president of Yugoslavia died in a jail cell, vice president of Congo is in custody and now Radovan Kara Dzic accused of massacre in Bosnia has been arrested.

 

Everything that happened and is happening, the Land and resource inequalities we are facing, the unemployed youths that are ever culpable for hire as militias and organized gangs is because the politicians want the status quo to be using as a stepping stone to meet their selfish political ambitions. The Waki report points out those politicians for long since 1990’s deliberately have devised violence as the only way to obtain power. They are the main cause of violence and its escalation. But funnily they walk on scot free perhaps to organize another destruction there after. One wonders why should we leave them to keep us in this shadows of destruction whereas we are the most hit by the aftermaths as they dine and wine on our coffers.  Our legislator’s interest is to keep us in the impasse that they keep riding on to reach their destinations to come, as they continue to pit us against each other.

 

The Waki report should be used as a litmus test for the trust we have in the so-called honourables. It absurd to see some Kenyans who also went through the strife of post election violence as the masterminds were driven around in well protected cars. Rallying behind these politicians singing the spelling doom for this country. It astonishes me to see how fast we can forget and pay a blind eye to our future. We have seen many reports being swept under the carpet, the Akiwumu report, Ndung’ land report, Njonjo report just to mention but a few. The mind boggles. The Waki report should not be also part of this list.  It is unfortunate to have failed to learn from the 1992 violence, the 1997 ethnic clashes and now the 2008 post elections violence. Am not a prophet of doom but believe me failure to implement Waki report and failure to bring the perpetrators to book Kenya will be in worse flames come 2012. Though International Criminal Court and International war tribunal sounds unpalatable to some political class, for Kenya to pursue peace building process and stop the future atrocities, truth and reconciliation commission nor local tribunals can be options. The law emphasizes individual responsibility for all those atrocities against humanity and punishment is logical. For justice to be reached and lessons learnt International Crime Court and the International war tribunal is the only forum that should be responsible for trying and punishing those who were responsible and honour the memory of those lost. If we leave this report to politicians and hands of Kenyan tribunal the outcome will be swayed to perpetrators favours, and if not the transgressors will recoil back to their tribal cylinders for sympathy and make the war against impunity take an ethnic dimension. You will hear them rally and hide under their communities and allege of witch-hunt of their community. This is not the way we should, not alone imagine if we have to stand up heads high come 2012.

The post election violence exceeded the normal parameters and for that must be dealt by an International Tribunal. Amnesty should not be an option here. Orelese we want to prove to the world that the more we change the more we remain the same and that Kenya is a truly failed state.  The Kenyans wishes of having justice prevail for everyone should be the driving gear for implementation of this report. The notion that a Kenyan importance has never outlived the Election Day should be wiped out by bringing the masterminds of impunity to book.

Implementing the Waki report is like taking up unpleasant tasks. If you have got to swallow a frog, you just don’t have to look at that sucker too long. He will not get purtier. As a matter of fact the long you look the uglier he gets. Lets bundle them at The Hague to end the culture of impunity for our own prosperity.

vernie - 2008-12-01 03:37:51
i admit that it is true but what the hell were you thinking?

man wazimu - 2008-11-04 23:05:43
HOT CHART STRICTLY KENYAN MUSIC BOMBA IS ON STAY AROUND.

brog - 2008-10-28 13:59:24
Hi john? Concerning this blog, I think you're selective and biased.you need to know that kenya has 42 tribes and no tribe is above the other. no one hate's kiuk's .Ok, look at the victims of the post election violence, were kambas,luos,kisiis,luhyas and the rest never affected? I suggest what you're trying to say is to protect what is yours .

owinojesse - 2008-10-24 05:44:08
kush and tigrates is not kenya but somewhere on north africa where the ancient kingdom of kush prospered

man wazimu - 2008-10-22 00:10:40
IT COMES AND GO BUT FINALLY HERE TO STAY IS REGGAE MUSIC FROM THE SLUMS TO SUBURBS AND TO THE BABIS.

man wazimu - 2008-10-22 00:02:59
What are the basis for friendship,is there a biblical basis or not?

brog - 2008-10-16 02:37:19
Wasee....Naskia siku hizi hiroo anajigamba mtaani ati  ako na  kitambi.  beste kumbe ako na  kwashiokor na ajui. mpatieni ka-advise