AN AMBIGUOUS LEADERSHIP. As I watched news, the novel titled MINE BOY by PETER ABRAHAMS is what hit my head. It is a melancholic story written in the context of south africa’s apartheid. At the mines, Xuma’s strength makes him a successful mine boy – a boss boy for one of the mine supervisors – Paddy Oshea, or the red one, as Xuma calls him. Paddy is considerate and understanding, and despite his not being black, he becomes friends with Xuma. To Paddy, a man is a man first and then color comes second. But as Xuma soon realizes, as a black man, he remains a second-class citizen under the apartheid regime. An accident occurs at the mine. Two people die inside the mines, the bodies are taken out, the engineer terms it as a small problem to do with machines and the boss orders everyone back to work. To the boss, what counts is the work in the mines and not the life lost. After the accident in the mines that takes the lives of Johannes and other miners, Paddy and Xuma lead the strike together with the mine boys when they are forced to back to work before the place is repaired. It is the same way that uhuru is trying to rule the country. The other week we lost officer in line of duty in turkana, he came out demanding nothing but the stolen guns. On Friday we lost 21 more. He came out again backing in the same manner. The president has found people to play with. One wonders, if it were some kikuyus being killed in some places, si KDF ingekua imemwagwa? The cook could have come out backing about some lines having been crossed. An omondi or an otis name could have appeared to have been arrested in mathare slums, then charged in conection of the slained soldiers. But what we are now witnessing is somebody who cares more about guns and his community than the lives of turkana community. We are seeing somebody who is ready to impose curfew even for an year on those people who kills those who voted for him, but turkana, being that they refused ekwe ethuro, they just have to produce guns and then continue burying their deaths, as pupils still write on the ground. Uhuru is not even ashamed of himself that he was standing in a mourning crowed, with an interpreter, backing of how he treasures guns than life. Sincerely speaking, giving back guns cant raise the dead. Neither will it stop the killing. They had killed with their own guns before taking the ones of those corpses. What make him fill that recovering stolen guns will make things different? Cattle rustling is an activity being controlled by those who are in government, if I am tobe sincere. The stolen cattle are usually taken to dagoretti slaughter house and another slaughter house in embakasi. A fact that even a primary pupil knows. Unless uhuru want to lie to us that he don’t know this.. How do you explain a situation that young men who just recently join the army are the ones who usually loose life in such places? This is because they choose people, greenhorns and uncooperative officers, to send, just to portray it as a fight between communities. Uhuru should take the life of Kenyans seriously. Walking around with jeans to be termed “simple person” isint enough. That is not what you were “elected” for. Affirmative actions is required. Meidevil type of leadership wont help here. Educating turkana people is the long term solution here. Education is what will end cattle rusling.the rest of Kenyans cannot be using book, with school having suplus of teacher while turkana pupils writte on the ground, then you tell us you are treating each and every Kenyan equally, no matter who they voted for....?????
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:30:04 +0000
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