Why we must use all means possible to fight this threat to our statehood

What you need to know:

  • Civil rights, the right to property, freedom of association and movement, the right to engage in business, the right to leisure, and the pursuit of happiness must all be curtailed for the greater good.
  • Buildings that harbour enemy combatants will be razed to the ground and any consumables within that are not destroyed will be seized for use by the advancing troops.
  • Instead of engaging in productive pursuits such as procreation and expansion of the voting pool to ensure retention of the tyranny of numbers in 2022 and beyond, they have reduced themselves to zombies.

We face a dire emergency. Elite General Service Unit commandos of the Kenya Police must therefore be removed from battling Al-Shabaab terrorists, cattle rustlers, ethnic militias, assorted bandits, and providing watchman service for VIPs and be redeployed to confront this grave new threat to national security.

So serious is the threat that under an unwritten executive order, citizen militias have been mobilised under the command of MPs, MCAs, and other local political leaders to form the first line of defence against the insidious encroachment on our national sovereignty.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. There will be no time to formally declare a state of emergency, but the Constitution of Kenya will be suspended for the duration of this conflict.

Civil rights, the right to property, freedom of association and movement, the right to engage in business, the right to leisure, and the pursuit of happiness must all be curtailed for the greater good.

The usual responses that have been found ineffective have to give way to new rules of engagement.

Therefore, the disciplined services deployed in this war must accept a new command structure where they will be subordinate to MPs, MCAs, and the citizen militias that have a keener ear to the ground.

This applies to the GSU, the regular and Administration Police and all other uniformed forces, including the Kenya the Prisons Service, the Kenya Wildlife Service, the Kenya Forest Service, the National Youth Service, the county government constabulary, as well as all ranks of the former provincial administration from regional commissioner down to sub-chief.

This grave threat to the central region, sorry, to the Republic of Kenya, must be fought with all the resources at our disposal. Field commanders like Kabete MP Ferdinand Waititu and his Gatundu South counterpart, Moses Kuria, have been given full authority by State House to lead their citizen militias and the supporting disciplined forces in a scorched-earth policy that will brook no resistance.

It will be shoot on sight, take no prisoners, in full recognition of the fact that in a state of war there will always be innocent casualties.

Often there will be no time to verify the bona fides of every individual in the captured territory, so all suspects must be mown down without mercy and dumped into the gutters.

Buildings that harbour enemy combatants will be razed to the ground and any consumables within that are not destroyed will be seized for use by the advancing troops. Soldiers, after all, often have to live off the land.

When there has been little thought of field rations, troops reserve the right to sequester what they need for dietary requirements and creature comforts. That is not looting, just rehydration. 

They also deserve the right to taste any impounded consumables, before destruction and disposal, to ensure that they are indeed lethal to body and soul.

Our militia voluntarily turning themselves into test subjects is the highest form of patriotism and commitment.

There can be no gainsaying the fact that cheap alcohol is taking a severe toll on our young men and women in central Kenya.

Instead of engaging in productive pursuits such as procreation and expansion of the voting pool to ensure retention of the tyranny of numbers in 2022 and beyond, they have reduced themselves to zombies.

Instead of providing honest labour for our farms, factories, and households, they are wasting their lives away in a drunken stupor, blacking out on the streets and unable to provide for themselves and their families. And who will be left to take the frontline on our cause the next time we provoke an ethnic-political war?

If they must drink, why settle for cheap, dangerous, poisonous stuff instead of decent products like those available to members of the Single-Single Malt Scotch Whisky Society?

Why can’t they frequent decent places like we do instead of cheap, dark, dinghy, unsanitary joints that are themselves health hazards? Why must somebody black out on the streets and alleys instead of summoning the chauffeur to drive him home?

This sloth and indiscipline is threatening the social, economic, and political fabric of our counties.

Alcoholism, drunkardness, and the pursuit of thrills must be left to those who can afford it.

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