May I inforn all my online brothers that from 1st July , Big Bro was switched on, and is watching and pegging every cyber comment, post, repply, share, forward , like and tag in our Cyberspere. No use making comments that may land your sorry ass in jail. If you can’t preach peace, hold your peace bro.
If you guys really knew what war does, you wouldn’t wish it to your worst enemy. Look at Libya, or Yemen, or Syria. In our lifetime, These countries flourished, and were considered among the fastest growing and most stable and robust economies. Today, for want of some stupid few, the humanitarian crisis there only rival bibilical apocalypse. Tell, if you may, during Gadaffis tenure, were such wanton loss of life and livelihood ever recorded. Yemen, Syria. Who benefited from the Arab spring. Who is the victim.
This are countries who had some very solid economies, the likes we Kenyans can only visualize in hundreds of years to come. But in just some short months, they crumbled like a cheap cookie.
Friends, Zimbabwe, with its Mugabe is a much better place to live today, than in Lybia. Think about that.
Let me explain some. Civil war is like a Ripple that creates other ripples, and the ripples create some more and so on and so on. You will sit in your house and plot to attack and wipe out tribe A. Day one will go as planned. Day 2, may be. Day three, probably. From there onwards, the war now dictates when you eat, when you sleep etc.
For life won’t be normal again. It will be war. And, as they say, All is fair in war and love. The Constitution you keep tapping about will be suspended within a week or two. The police will abandon the streets to go fend for their families. The army will hold on for a while longer before factions emerge. Their allegiance will gravitate and oscillate based on what war Lord will promise better. Then, hell will break loose. Forget your job, or business. You will be too busy evading death and burrying your loved ones in shallow graves , hastily dug enroute to the nearest UN camp. Your entire wordly belonging will be what you can fit into the UN tent.
The entire system will corapse. No schooling for your kids, no supermarket, no elec no water. Just bullets whizzing by.
As you waste away in your leaking tent, our political leaders will be in Amsterdam or Brussels or Havana or Tokyo, eating foreign cuisine and looking for UN tenders to supply you with blankets.
It all starts with one crazy stupid skunk shooting an arrow. Then war happens. For no society in the history of tge entire world, has ever sat back and watched as an enemy annihilated it’s populous. Every besieged community, at a point, fights back.
Kenya is working… It worked even during Moi. The situation is not that dire. Fighting, should not even be an option. My advice is, choose your words carefully, whoever you are. And, ignore any war drums. In the words of Hessy, if war breaks out, Utajua Haujui.
sisomi
Sir, you are excused
Hii story yote ni ya nini? Kenya is very peaceful…Let IEBC give us a credible election period
Just asking you madam to choose peace to war. You can’t buy pads during war. You may have to use pumice stones
swafi
How i wish Raila would read this…he has been beating thr drums of chaos and anarchy ever so loudly.
What happens when you have done all there is to have peace and to live in peace with all but still your neighbour starts the war?
I have read your piece @Kasighau and it has me going back into time. When the state of emergency was declared in 1952, my grandpa was only 34 years old, he was arrested and shipped to a camp in Langata, then Manyani and finally to the rice fields in Mwea where he spent the last years of his detention before finally being released. For him to have been arrested in 1952, he must have been an active member of mau mau for some time and therefore this means that he must have joined the resistance when younger than his 30’s. This is true for many of our fore fathers who fought for independence.
And i think for them they were pushed to the wall to a point that they said, in the words of the late George Saitoti, that there comes a time when the interests of the nation is great than that of an individual. and they left their young families (guka left 4 kids) and entered into the forest not sure if they will ever come out alive.
Man!..i really wish Raila would read this and take it to heart!
Most kenyans want peace but there are people who are hell bent on seeing this country burn to satisfy selfish personal intrests. Unfortunately our media is helping them advance thier agenda rather than focusing on real issues. Lord help us.
There can never be true peace without justice, social equity and respect for one another.
Now, that’s where you lose the point. Every person is responsible for this country’s wellbeing.
True…but some people are more responsible than others…dont you agree?
An election result is not justification for murder, rape, arson and theft, keep the peace.
Whichever way you look at it, without justice, peace will always be elusive. Have people ever sat back and thought through what Libya would be like if Gadafi just let go and allowed another person to lead Libya?
I agree…Selfish people infiltrate Elections and Rig aganist the will of the people…These are the real enemy of peace and development
He was willing to negotiate with the Benghazi based rebels during the uprising but NATO was hellbent on killing him at any cost. Remember they had imposed a no-fly zone but France went on with aerial bombardment of key government installations. He never had a fighting chance.
Noo, not then. Way before it escalated to that. The guy had been in power for 42yrs. A whole 42yrs, but as pragmatic as people think he was, he hadn’t thought of an exit plan. A simple exit plan that would have had his loyalists and their egenrations live peacefully at home in Libya. As things stand, most of them are either dead, or living in exile. Anga;ia baba moi; the guy is living out the last days of his life peacefully while spendign whatever birrions he had stollen. No one is after him just because he knew when to cede power. Cede because he somehow still influences the politics of the day anyways! Now that is what I can say is pragmatism.
Nitasoma baadaye @mabenda4 .
I think that’s where he messed up, he should have put in place an effective succession plan.