NO WE CAN’T

NO WE CAN’T
This Piece I did it to all the Kenyans and the Kenyan youth who were Celebrating the President Elect of United States, Sen. Barrack Obama’s Victory. It was a reminder that we can not conduct business as usual and expect different results. The piece borrows and negates Obama’s line “Yes we can” and lay bare how Kenyan youth need an urgent change in thoughts and action to bear the audacity to Utter Obama’s words. ( Dated 5/11/2008)

This is to all Kenyans youth.

Today marks a historical moment in man’s existence. The victory of Barrack Obama in the USA polls has proved to us that never before, have we as a people dedicated our lives and pursuit on anything and went unsuccessful. That when we are determined we will succeed. That positive thinking alone will not take us there unless we spice it up with enthusiasm.

But this very day is of no importance, if the Kenyan youth will not go beyond the limits of celebration. We are almost forgetting the moment, and head back to our usual places of comfort. Yet we want the world to believe that “Yes. We Can! “ . I say no, unless we change right now, right here we remain “No. We can’t”.

Today we are silent like graves, quite like tombs on Waki’s report.
Today we have allowed Raila and Kibaki combined to take us for a ride
Today we have allowed our government to kill and maim her people in Mandera.
Today we watch us Ministry of health services officials feasts on our Ksh. 13 billions
Today we are forgetting to ask who Mobiltelea was.
Today we refuse to remember the NSSF saga.
Today we don’t know who the Artur brothers were.
Today we are not interested in constitution anymore
Today we are not keen on Grand Regency
Today we don’t care about who killed Pinto, Mboya and JM
Today we don’t want to know who killed over 500 young people in Ngong Forest, Mt
Elgon and many parts of this country; we refuse to condemn the police brutality.
Today we don’t care to ask why Kenyans are squatters in their own land
Today we are accepting the fact that Ndung’u report on land still lies unimplemented.

This is why I believe that unless I see more from you and me, you are wasting your time by celebrating Obama’s victory. No. We can’t. He did not just wish or celebrate others victory, he pursued it; dedicated and willing to go as far as he believed he may go. Have you ever asked yourselves why Mungiki make sense to young people? It is because it identifies itself with a common man. It makes sense to the youth. It knows what it wants, and it would be willing to go for it no matter what. It pays all prices to get wherever it wants to be. Mungiki never rest, they never despair. This is the kind of determination we need. Young people can borrow the determination and say’ to hell’ to tokens from this government and organize themselves and say we want it now. Yes this way change may come our way.
This country problem is leadership. From the residence of the president to palatial homes of our ministers, from the comfort zones of our MPs to the corners of civil servants and religious men, we remain led by blind, selfish and rotten leaders. Most of them have blood on their hands, some corrupt, others just sleep and for some is just to grab. What a shame! And you as a young person, you are silent and hoping things to change. Then you cheat yourself with Obama’s Slogan that yes you can. No. You Can’t.
Obama has won. He has sent me and you to a soul search mission among ourselves, to believe that we can, and to act as we can. This calls for us to find one another and organize ourselves. Young people you can’t afford to sit down there. Wishes will take you no where.
Let us agree that on this and that day, that on this and that place, we will meet and start a campaign of joining the Obama “ movement” that will declare that we must “CAN” before the year 2012.
Let us say that we will not go anymore to Uhuru Park to clap for these political thugs who have brainwashed us for years and years.
We must rise fast and draw our charter of operation. We don’t need so academic wording; all we need is the power to mobilize our communities and let them know that our war in 2012 will be generational. That the old if they wish, will elect their fellow old and selfish lot but for us we are going for nothing less than our fellow youth.
That is the spirit. Obama is not a president for Africa, not even America. He is a worldwide movement that we must embrace to make a new world order possible. If we fail to take this root, then we may as well go to hell if not Hague.
I hope someone will hear me. As for me I remain

Yours Trully Ever Ready

OULU GPO