Part 1: Poor Beggars

I have heard it said more than once that Kenya is a country of ten millionaires and ten million peasants. If you ask me, I think Kenya is a country of tens of millionaires, tens of millions of poor people and wall in between them. Everyday the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. It’s the story of our lives.

When a government is made up of hungry hyenas who eat even their own children, a big gap develops between the authorities and their subjects. More often than not, various characters take advantage of the gap created for personal gains. This only adds to the disillusion already rooted in the public. People will always see the government as the enemy. No leader, especially the politicians, remembers he was put there by a society that had faith and believed in him.

When people cry to the government to fill the gap and it ignores them, crime happens. Gangs sprout to govern areas ignored by the administration. They extort, kill, rob, rape and perform other inhumane injustices to the people they claim to police and protect. Those same gangs form coalitions and alliances with the state police and henceforth, they would be untouchable.

When the cry of the people becomes too great, sects are formed. I am not pointing fingers here but that is how a movement like Mungiki thrives. It exploits the gaps left by the central government. It preaches hope and ends up the personal gainer. Just look at what is happening to the matatu industry. How does one go about reversing the whole cycle after they stood there and watched it all happen?

After decades of grand corruption, Kenya’s economy has been reduced to what you could refer to as a past-retail-date retired whore. There is no more revenue to sustain the big mouths of the politicians and the big guys at the top. They are living like kings yet Kenya isn’t a monarchy. In their big tinted cars and helicopters, they see themselves as semi-gods.

The other day I was analyzing the stock market and one thing stood out very clearly: It’s the rich man’s playing field. It’s been proven that if you know what you are doing, you can make millions of shillings from the stock market. Take a stock like Kakuzi, for example. If you bought its shares towards the end of January, now your investment has yielded about 25% (beginning of March). Imagine you had about half a million shillings to play with.

Its time people stopped fearing the monsters that govern them. Civil justice is very sweet. Stand up for the future, don’t live for today...

[[ ...to be continued.]]

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Signed: Dr. Mwas
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