Opinion
Kenyans have learnt gross rapacity from their rulers
By Macharia GaithoPosted Monday, February 2 2009 at 16:22
Other will entrust their money to “magicians” who promise to double or triple their investment, while others will happily surrender all they have to charlatans who promise them heaven right here on earth.
Inevitably, those who are greedy and rush for that instant wealth will burn their fingers (pun fully intended); unless they are part of the ruling elite and therefore within the official corruption networks that drive the Goldenbergs, Anglo Leasings and dodgy commodity trade.
When they become victims of their own greed, we mourn for them. And if it looks like the law might catch up with them, we politicise the whole thing and assemble our tribesmen to make threatening noises.
Those are the kind of noises already coming out of the Rift Valley from some minister feeling the heat over the maize scandals.
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Submitted by kenmare69Posted February 05, 2009 12:38 AM
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Submitted by Cyclope
They died doing what many Kenyans want, FREE THINGS, "where they hardly sowed", to quote from Narano's post. Despite all these and past tragedies, when remedial ideas/help etc come knocking on Kenyan doors from abroad, many leaders want in, so that they can benefit at the expense of its citizens. Kenya has to come out of the mentality of "give me, give me, give me". People ought to be inventive and innovators than bold beggars. This is where Kenyan society has gone wrong.
Posted February 04, 2009 11:00 PM -
Submitted by ikiplagat
Macharia you are right.Nowadays you don't have to be rich to be greedy in Kenya. look at our ministers who 2 years ago were paupers....they became so greedy when they entered parliament
Posted February 04, 2009 09:10 PM -
Submitted by Magathuka
Macharia you are spot on. Kenyans we have become careless to point of forgetting to taking care of ourselves or heeding words of advice. We prefer to blame everyone else and forget that those we are pointing fingers at are a reflection of ourselves, for example, the corrupt and inept leaders we have pretending to lead our country. The loudest noise makers are just waiting in the wings to get a chance at "eating." Now that we are discussing the Kenya we want, can all Kenyans first agree on the Kenya we really do not want.
Posted February 04, 2009 08:37 PM -
Submitted by mza
Unfortunately, our tribalism stands on the way of a leader who would wipe out all these ills. Even those who showed some hope have now fallen back to their tribal cacoons. Solution? I think we just have to let the wheat and the weed to grow together. For so long as we build strong institutions that ensure the wheat is always above the weed. Not the other way round as it is in Kenya today. That's what they've done in Europe and America.
Posted February 04, 2009 05:17 PM
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Poverty is nothing like a sudden rain shower that finds you shopping for dinner at the market. It’s a culmination of a number of events, most of which are nourished by a fertile state of bone-headedness. (If this doesn’t go down well with you, you’re free to bite my ass.) Wiper and many, many others is part of a chain of stuff that thrives pretty well on the aforementioned condition in our country. It’s good that he acknowledges his part. If anyone’s still scooping up ‘Wiper’s’ wisdom, may the good Lord bless you and ‘Wiper.’ Amen.