KILLING IN THE NAME OF THE LAW.

Every Kenyan should cross his fingers and hope the worse not to happen, because if the National Police Service (amendment) bill is passed the “Men in uniform” will officially receive the powers to shot and kill in performance of their “legal duty”. The current law is that a police officer will only use a firearm if: saving and protecting his life and others or in self-defence or in defence of other person against imminent threat of life or serious injury.

The new bill adds power on the police to use fire arms to protect life and property, prevent a person from escaping from a lawful custody, prevent person who attempts to rescue another person from lawful arrest.

Just recently in Kawangware six Administrative Police in cold bleed, shot and killed seven unarmed taxi drivers in the name of “performing their duty” but  thanks to the High court Justice Fred Ochieng’ sent them all to the gallows since the law had provided that that they have to prove that their lives should be in danger which they failed to do. This is a clear example of how the police officers can misuse their arms if given any slight chance and if this bill is passed then the lives of civilians will be more in danger since a wider opportunity will have been created.

I find no need for police to be added new powers since this will expand the negligence and the recklessness practised by the rouge police in our beloved country. I do appreciate the importance of this law since just recently 42 officers were killed in Baragoi,Suguta valley when they had gone to secure the property that had been stolen  by cattle rustlers and this new bill will give the police more confidence when performing their duty to protect the property of Kenyans but on weighing the advantages and disadvantages you will realise we have more to lose than gain since first of all this law will be a detriment to the constitutional right; the right to life, it will be inconsistent to the  UN principles of use of Firearms and Force and more so the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission(TJRC) recommended police not to use firearms to protect property and went even further to state the Police are  among the Security agencies involved in gross  violation of human rights this including extra judicial killings.

Currently the police can use firearms during carjack and on reasonable belief suspects is armed or if a person damages or steals property and is threatening to cause serious injury or death. If this law is amended then even a pickpocket steals a purse police will just shot and kill the thief in the name of protecting property. More so the police may misuse these power and they may kill any one and claimed he had stole some property and even your own phone the police may claim it was a stolen phone and hence they shot and killed you.

For instance in Githurai 45, Kimbo  a man Kenneth  Kimani was shot dead by the police at a bus station and police alleged that he had stolen a Samsung phone which was worth less than Ksn.9000 and witness who were there during the shooting stated that Kenneth Kimani had nothing in his pocket or hands when he was shot dead. And even after the shooting three ambulances were prevented from taking him to hospital. In light of the above true incident that happened in Kenya do police really need these powers?

The second issue brought by the new proposed bill is that it deletes a section in the current law which empowers junior officers to refuse to carry out duties which need use of force (firearm) given to them by their superiors, if the duties are unlawful. By deleting this section it exposes junior officer to misuse by superiors and make them like puppets, carrying out orders without questions. Hence they can be used to carry out illegal acts such shoot to kill innocent civilians. In my view this will make police officers murders for hire and will lead to injustice.

My opinion is mechanisms should be in place for accountability for death caused by Policeofficers and they should live upto there Motto of ; Utumishi Kwa Wote. Since the new bill bring up an assumption that the police are good in killing but not in law enforcement and in the words of Justice Fred Ochieng’ i will end by saying  “the police are supposed to provide security, not to take away lives,”.

OPERATION "LINDA NCHI": THE WAR AGAINST ILLEGAL DRUGS.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Kenya defence Forces, Hon. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta declared war against illegal drug trafficking and traffickers during the 2^nd National Conference on Alcohol and Drug Abuse organised by NACADA and which I had the privilege to attend and heard His Excellency giving this order live and clear. His Excellency gave strong statements such as: “I will not entertain any longer scenario all we do is just give statistics on number of death and addicts (in relation to drug abuse)” he also said “I have already given orders that all foreigners who are either deal or suspected of engaging in drug trafficking to be deported and go back to their own countries....”

This is very true since 21 foreigners were deported including controversial Nigerian Antony Chinedu who is now free in Nigeria.

Personally, am very aware of the fatal dangers that illegal drugs can cause to any individual since drugs chose no one, and any one can be influence into abuse of such illegal drugs, both the rich and poor, young and old, educated and uneducated, and that is why I fully support any law or policy passed to control illegal drugs and ensure drug traffickers feel the full weight of the law, since they are the people who have sent our fellow Kenyans into the cemetery.

But  the new policy passed  by His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta of “arrest and deport” whereby if a foreigner is arrested for drug trafficking the police arrest him and the cabinet secretary(formerly known as minister) for Interior and Coordination of National Government-Mr.Joseph Ole Lenku will give an order that such person be removed and remain out of Kenya either indefinitely or for a period he may prescribe, this is per section 43 of the Kenyan Citizenship and Immigration Act,2011 which empowers the minister to do so and even after the offender is deported it is no guarantee that he will be prosecuted in his home country where he is deported to. And this was the process which was followed which saw 21 drug traffickers being deported

This policy of “arrest and deport” am very suspicious that it might encourage rather than discourage drug traffickers from coming to Kenya. Firstly, think of a country such as China where just recently five Kenyans were found guilty of drug trafficking and were sentenced to death! And six others sentenced to life imprisonment also a country like Philippines where a Kenyan woman, Asha Otieno Ogutu, 24 was jailed for life when he was found in custody of drug at the airport in Philippines, Now, assume you are a drug trafficker would you take drugs to China or Philippines where you will be either sentenced to death or life imprisonment or will you take drugs to Kenya where you will be “arrested and deported” and there is no guarantee that you will be prosecuted in your home country? Am sure every Tom Dick and Harry will happily bring their illegal drugs to Kenya.

Secondly, most Kenya drug lords are the “big fish” in the Kenyan society and even though we have a new government with high standards of qualification, since they have to fully comply with the integrity chapter six of The Constitution and also the strict vetting they undergo, who knows that a minister may be given “the golden handshake” and will close his eyes on drug traffickers so that they be deported and not face justice in Kenya.

Thirdly, we all know law enforcement officers who are “reformed” by name but their acts (some of them) are still in question. For instance just recently an Administrative Police (AP) officer was arrested in Kawangware with 40 kg of illegal ivory worth Ksh.400,000 and was caught by an undercover Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) agent who pretended to be interested in buying the ivory. It is alleged that the AP had acquire the ivory from a poacher who he had arrested by him with the ivory but failed to present the ivory when the poacher was charged. But the AP decided to sell the Ivory! Well think about this if an AP can act like this to ivory worth Ksh.400,000, then you guess what can happen when he arrest a drug trafficker loaded with illegal drugs worth millions of shilling? Will he not “arrest and deport” the drug trafficker and remain with the drugs to sell?

Fourthly, when we arrest and deport drug lords, they defiantly have well established network already in Kenya and the moment you let them go free in their country, they will still communicate with their fellow Kenyan  drug traffickers and the drug business will continue to boom! Because drug traffickers do not work alone they work in a chain consisting of producers, transporters, brokers and consumers and by arresting and deporting the chain is not yet broken, by deporting its only the distance between the chain that has changed.

Fifthly, one may ask: “when this drug lords are deported are they charged in their home country?”...well, look at Antony Chinedu when he was deported to Nigeria on suspicion of drug trafficking, was he prosecuted in Nigeria? NO!! Is he free in Nigeria after he was deported? YES!! Also, think of a country such as North Korea where bhang is legal, and a foreigner from such a country is arrested and deported back to that country for selling bhang which is illegal in Kenya, will he be charged for drug trafficking yet in his country it is legal? I really doubt it.

My opinion is, Kenya has enough laws to prosecute drug traffickers, since just recently two Ugandans were sentence to life imprisonment when they were found with cocaine at Jomo Kenyatta Airport and if by any chance they are not sufficient Kenya should make strict laws to control drug trafficking, since when laws are so lenient they are always broken as it’s easy to walk away and this can be learnt from the increase in poaching in Kenya where elephants and rhinos are been killed almost daily, since there are no strict laws to control such an illegal activity and poachers just pay fines and walk away. And laws or policy should favour no one since it’s unjust to arrest and deport a foreigne,r who will be free in his country and yet send a Kenyan to rot in jail. And yet this foreigner is deported using taxpayers money to pay his flight ticket.this foreigners should first serve their term in jail after which they should be deported and Kenyans should be educated of the economic and social dangers of illegal drugs.All in all the war against drug is war we should all be part of.

THE AFRICAN UNION.

Politicians will always be politicians; all there need to be is something common for them to fight for. Kenya legislators were all brought together by their greed for their quest for higher pay and no matter their political party or ideology they all work together to make their quest come true and the house speaker Justine Muturi went on to justify this by saying they are “correcting an illegality” made by the Salary and Remunerations Commission (SRC) and Prof.Kindikia Kithure defended it by saying “we are following the law by use of constitutional pathway”. These politicians were justifying their greedy acts in the name of the law!

Think about the African Union 50^th Anniversary held Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and you will definitely observe similar characteristics of political head of states from almost all states in Africa. During the AU meeting, the political Head of state all united to fight against justice for their fellow head of state namely Uhuru Kenyatta and earlier on Omar Bashir and they justified their support by saying: “Kenya has a reformed Judiciary and it should be given the first priority to try the cases” this were the words of the AU commission chairperson Ms. Nkosaza Dlamini-Zuma and she added that “the ICC was established to be the court of last resort and not the first resort”. A declaration also written by AU also read that “Kenya be allowed a National mechanism to investigate and prosecute the case under a reformed Judiciary” .I do agree that Kenya has a reformed judiciary but who will carry out this investigations? Think about investigations of Baragoi valley or Ouko or J.M Kariuki have the people involved ever brought to justice?

Well, as an African I have all reasons maybe to celebrate of such a decision passed by the heads of states in the AU meeting since it shows finally African leaders have stopped being puppets of the western imperialist, but first before we pop the champagne and begin the party did you ask yourself the one million dollar question. Which is: did they support the bid to drop the ICC cases because they believe that those African people who were murdered, mutilated and sexually harassed will get justice in African courts or did they support it because it was their fellow political head of state who was being accused? Me I think the latter is the reason why they supported the bid.

If you read articles from mass media coming from the AU meetings you will realize that the discussion was mainly based on Mr.Uhuru Kenyatta who is their fellow political head of state. But do you know that more than twenty(20) Africans are facing charges in the ICC people like Joseph Kony of Uganda, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo of DRC,Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d'Ivoire and many more others yet African Union only concentrated on Uhuru Kenyatta case only. Why did they not include the other African ICC cases in their bid to ask United Nations to drop the charges if they think African Courts are capable of handling the cases? Well I can say it is because Uhuru Kenyatta is their fellow political head of state.

I do agree that the ICC is a tool by the imperialist only punishing leaders from small and weak nations but it ignores crimes committed by rich and more powerful nations and that’s why maybe Uhuru Kenyatta is being accused of being responsible for the more than 1000 death that occurred during the post election violence yet the “super power” leaders are not being accused of the death of the tens of thousands of people they are killing in Iraq, Bangladesh and the list goes on. And that’s why I strongly agreed with the South Sudan leader Salva Kiir when he said the ICC court is made to “humiliate African leaders”. But my big worry is that the AU is handling this case from a political point of view without caring if justice will be achieved.

Though the AU resolution will have no effect on the ICC case it brings to our attention that maybe still African head of state are not after justice but rather to strengthen their political relations.

My opinion is if the AU does not support the Cases of the ICC it should not be selective on specific cases but it should insist all cases concerning Africans in the ICC be dropped but before they do that they should form an “African Court of Justice” which should have judges with integrity to ensure justice is served. This will prevent politicians from saving their own politicians from the jaws of justice. But I do appreciate the resolution passed by the AU to have its own Army this if implemented will be a giant step toward African independence. But I still insist AU should know the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLITICS AND JUSTICE!!!

THE CONDOM AND THE CHURCH

The condemnation of the condom by the church reminds me of past errors of the church such as the claim that the earth goes round the sun which the church vehemently condemned. It all begun in 1512 when Nicolas Copernicus came up with the heliocentric model that stated that the sun was at the centre of the solar system and that the earth went round it. The church vehemently suppressed the theory and went on to forbade him from publishing his book “De Revolutionbus” which had articles to support his theory. The church thus forced the people to believe that it was the sun that went round the earth

In 1600 Giordano Bruno was burnt to death after the church found him guilty of heresy and that he claimed that the sun was at the centre of the solar system. In honour of his death and his fight for the truth a statute was erected in 1890 the same spot he was burnt, the statue was mainly erected as an emblement for freedom of thought.

In 1616 Galileo Galilei took up the heliocentric theory and held his ground that the earth goes round the sun, he was tried for blasphemy by the church, since he was stating contrary to the scripture such as Psalms 93:1, 96:10 which have text stating that “the earth is firmly established” and the church interpreted it to mean that the earth never moves but it’s the sun that moves round the earth. Galileo was found guilty of blasphemy and was sentence to life in house arrest.

In 1687 Sir Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope and it became clear that the sun was the centre of the solar system and that the earth went round the sun and not the sun going round the earth.

In 1822 the church finally permitted the publication of work dealing with the theory that the earth goes round the sun

In 1992 Pope John Paul II officially agreed with the theory that the earth goes round sun.

From the above it took approximately 500 years for the church to accept the truth the earth goes round the sun and this was after many years of misleading people that it’s the sun that goes round the earth. This was after many philosophers and great thinkers were killed and imprisoned on claiming the truth yet the church did not hear, all in the name that it was contrary to the scripture. What also need to be noted from the above is that the church is not ALWAYS right. And that the church is so conservative and it may not be able to compete with the present reality of the time and technology.

What most people should know is that the bible was written on cultural context and misinterpretation of the Bible has led to suffering of many people throughout history. Slavery and discrimination of the female gender was all caused by misinterpretation of the scripture and that why unlike the Holy Koran which is also recognized as a source of law in many countries the Bible is not since it can easily be misinterpreted.

It is said that history repeat itself. And maybe that can be very true and it may take 500 years for the condom to be accepted by the church as a way of preventing HIV/AIDS, Sexual Transmitted Infections (STIs) and also be used for family planning.

In a research carried out in Kenya by  Kenya HIV Prevention Response and Mode of Transmission Analysis, it showed that there are approximately 100,000 new infections of HIV/AIDS annually and 44% of this are from stable relationships such as marriage this is much greater compared to new infections from sex workers and clients which is at 14.1%. This may send an awkward message that it’s safer to have a sex relation with a sex worker than your partner in your relationship. But do not get me wrong, am not saying that people to have sex relations with sex workers but rather am showing the importance of condom in sexual relation since the low percentage in sex workers in new infection maybe the fact that they use a condoms.

My opinion is that condom can be used to control the spread of HIV/AIDS and also stop unplanned pregnancies. Unplanned pregnancies mainly lead to abortions especially among the youth which may lead to the death of the woman since the abortions are conducted using dangerous means since it is illegal in Kenya and done by untrained people. Unplanned pregnancies may also lead to a big family which the parents may not be able to provide for leading to poverty, malnutrition and also increase in crime in the society. The church should also be at the frontline to teach the congregation the importance of faithfulness in marriage and the church leaders should practise what they preach and the cases where church leaders are involved in sexual offences should cease to exist, since if the church leaders themselves cannot control their own sexual behaviour how do they expect the people to behave? But most important and especially to the youth they should know that abstinence is the 100% sure way to stop abortions and HIV/AIDS since the bloody truth is that AIDS IS REAL!!

THE CHINA MAN,

"All that glitters is not gold" Chinese companies have flooded Kenya and have undertaken alot of projects most of them through loans-debts- like expansions of the Kisumu airport, rehabilitation of the Moi International Sports Centre, expansion of Thika-Nairobi highway, the Sondu Miriu power plant and oil exploration in northern Kenya,r mining coal in Mui and vry soon they are also involved in installing CCTV cameras in Nairobi Metropolitan myb its bcz they are hardworking and are timely in finishing their job.......bt do u rember how colonization begun it begun with missionaries who brought the Gospel and b4 we realized it we were chased out of our lands and we lost our freedom...China is an upcoming superpower and to have power u need slaves, hope we shall not be among its slaves when it rises to power bcuz today we talk about modern colonization where u make a country ur debtor and u use that to controll it.its my hope Kenya will nt fall in the trap of modern colonization bt all in all china does a good job bt hope there is no hiden,malicious intentions...LONG LIVE KENYA!! bt keep in mind "When the deal seems so sweet think twice".

THE JUDICIARY BLACK SPOT

The judiciary is moving at a supersonic speed on the super highway of reforms, but has it got an accident at a black spot on its road to the Promised Land? After March 4^th election, the results were announced declaring  Uhuru Kenyatta as president, Raila Odinga filed a petition to The Supreme Court  seeking the court to declare the election invalid,  but The Supreme Court ruled in favour of Uhuru Kenyatta. Not everyone was pleased with the ruling since it was received with political reaction. If a person supported Uhuru, of course it was a ceremony for the birth of a new president; on the other hand, if a person supported Raila Odinga, it was a funeral to them since they had to bury their dream of being lead by the son of Jaramogi. The Supreme court was criticized on a number of things such as rejection the 800 page affidavit on court procedure bases, this affidavit contained evidence to support Raila’s case but when the court gave the judgment it stated that Raila had not given sufficient evidence to prove his case. The court was also criticized relied on legal authorities from countries such as Nigeria and Uganda whose democracy record is not upright. It was also stated that the judgment was read in a casual way, on the day of giving the final judgment, since the judges did not read the whole judgment as is normally done in courts. To put a hot nail on the wound, just recently the High Court recently terminated a 20 year old Goldenberg Case where the country lost billions of shillings “thanks” to Judge Joseph Mutava, who released the master-mind of the Goldenberg scandal, Kamlesh Pattni .Judge Joseph Mutava is being investigated by the Judicial Service Commission on his conduct and also his relation with Kamlish Pattni. The Director of Public Prosecution, Keriako Tobiko said they will appeal the case to the Court of Appeal but they are being frustrated by some issues such as; the judgment which cleared  Kamlesh Pattni went missing from the High Court registry and only resurfaced after 18 days and it is believed this is part of a scheme to defeat any avenue for appeal, since an appeal should be filed to the a higher court( The Court of Appeal), 14 days after the day of judgment, in this case the 14 day window of appeal has already lapsed but an appeal can still be possible if Prosecutor will give the judge reasonable reasons for the delay.

In most Courts of Justice, there is always a black spot called “political influence” and this ends up causing the death of justice to many people. For instance, in 1992 and 1997 general elections Kenneth Matiba &  Mwai Kibaki respectively, would not successfully file a presidential election petition against Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi because the court at the time acted as a puppet of the “big fish” of the society and justice was measured with the depth of a person’s pocket. I have a strong belief that Kenya has moved from those miserable years and am bloody sure the “Mutunga’s Courts” is a reformed court and was not influenced politically or bribed on giving its ruling and that is why the judiciary has not got an accident at the black-spot neither has it had a puncture to slow its speed or stop it towards a reformed judiciary. KEEP UP JUDICIARY!!

KILLING THE MESSENGER

The death of Senior Counsel Mutula Kilonzo hit many Kenyans with a jaw breaking blow. I will not jump the gun and state he was assassinated or murdered but throughout Kenya’s history, Kenya has a “good track record” of sending its heroes to the cemetery. Heroes who fought against inequality before the law, corruption and stood firmly for what is right and so far no “big fish” has been held accountable. It all begun after independence in 1965 when Pio Gama Pinto a socialist Politician was shot at close range on the driveway while waiting for the gate to be opened and it is said he was murdered for his socialist ideas, no sooner had Kenyans recovered from the loss of such a hero than Tom Mboya was shot on the 5^th of July 1969 at Moi Avenue, Nairobi while   visiting a pharmacy. Isaac Njoroge was arrested and hanged for the murder of Tom Mboya but during his arrest he asked: “Why don’t you go after the big man?” and Kenyans have never known who the "big man" was and up to now we are still in the dark. It is said Mboya was murdered to remove political competition for the presidency seat as he was seen as a political threat for the top seat. Mboya can be attributed as a King Maker since thanks to him USA has a president named Barak Obama, since it is due to Mboya’s Scholarship programmes which sponsored Barak Obama Senior to USA and during his education there he met and married Stanley Ann Dunham who then became parents of Barak Obama. In 1975 the “peoples millionaire” J.M Kariuki was bloodily killed it is said he was killed for his courageous fighting against corruption, unfair distribution of land after independence and his continuous complain against the widening gap between the e rich and poor. In 1991 Robert Ouko was murdered and his body found by a heard boy dumped in the bush, his murder was so controversial that Kenyans were forced to swallow a bitter lie that Ouko shot himself to the head then set himself on fire while dead!! It is said he was killed due to his plan to give a report on political corruption in the Government of Kenya at that time. Many Kenya heroes have suffered the same fate, heroes such as Alexandra Muge, Mugabe Were,Odhiambo Mbai just to name a few and just recently the death of George Saitoti is still raising eyebrows due to his political ambition as potential presidential candidate and his harsh fight against Drug Lords who have invaded Kenya.

Kenya may never know who the “big fish” are, who have existed since independence and have continuously killed our messengers who have brought the message of the fight against  corruption and standing for what is right, But am sure Kenyans have heard the sounds of the war drums of the fight against corruption and we  will fight till we win this battle and war, since they can kill the messenger but not the message, in the words of Fred Hampton I will conclude by saying “You may kill a revolutionary but, YOU WILL NEVER KILL THE REVOLUTION!!”

KENYAN GREED SYNDROME

 I read a story of a crowd of angry men who brought a woman before a Wise-man and asked the Wise-man, “This woman has been caught in the act of adultery and the law commands us to stone such a woman. So what do we do? And the Wise-man answered, “Let him who is without sin be the first to throw the stone at her.” And before long no single man was left standing at the scene. They all went!

I bet most of the Kenyans are angry with the greed of the legislator and would like to stone them, for their demand on higher salary and  that the Salary and Remuneration Commission reviewed their salary downwards, but before we go to the street and demonstrate, before we seek one million signatures from Kenyans so that we can recall the election or before we beginning stoning the legislators lets first think about the one million dollar statement : “ let that Kenyan with no greed cast the first stone”

All Kenyans generally are greed (I stand to be corrected) either directly or indirectly, is just that the greed manifests itself in different circumstances, forms and capacity. Just to give an example; how many times have you read or heard the news and saw a petroleum truck that has overturned and saw Kenyans siphoning oil from it yet they have witnessed other Kenyans burn to death on such an activity? How many times have you seen a beer, bread or a soda truck having an accident and see Kenyans running to the scene not to help the accident victims but rather to enjoy the “free products” of the accident some even going to an extent of stealing from the accident victims? How many times have you entered into a matatu and the conductor failed to ask you the fare and you just walk away without paying? We have just come from a general election the other day and I bet you have a campaign material either a cap, t-shirt, poster or anything that falls under this category for a politician you did not support yet you took his cap, t-shirt  reason being...it was for free!!and if you do not have I bet it’s because you were not exposed to such an opportunity .This example which are just among the few in our society have  one conclusion which can be observed and that is people  like free things. This free things in the long term leads to greed because we want everything even the ones we have not worked for and that’s the main characteristic of greed and that’s why  a hyena is known to be greedy because it eats what it has not hunted. More so, the main argument the politicians are giving in their quest for higher salaries is that members of their constituencies see them as ATM machines and they always ask them for hand-outs commonly known as chai(tea).

I think it is a high time we change the “free philosophy” in our society. Maybe this philosophy came with the colonisers when they brought many gifts to the Kenyan community chiefs in order for them to support them conquer  other communities that did not support them and these chiefs were awarded with wealth and high position in the colonial government  and since then Kenya has had this idea that a leader must have wealthy and be  very rich and that’s why( maybe) one of the reasons Kenya  has had  a long trail of rich presidents and politicians or maybe we may blame our upbringing in schools where we saw prefects been given small  free gifts and hence many students struggled to be prefects to enjoy such free gifts or even serving with a lot of favourism when they did not report their friend to the teacher and we grew up in the belief leadership is a matter of personal benefit.

We are now in 2013, a new generation of Youth have emerged and I think we need to change the rules of the jungle and the tables must turn. We need to remind each other of leaders such as Dedan Kimathi, Wangari Mathai, JM Kariuki, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and many other around the world who put their lives in service of people not for their own interest but for society benefit, of which the fruits we enjoy today on the other hand we also read in history about leaders like Id Amin Dada & Mobutu Sese Seko who because of their greed they messed with the lives of their people and the economy of their country. Look at like a country like DRC which is endowed with valuable minerals but due to its greedy leaders like Mobutu the country is among the poor countries in Africa.

As a new generation I think it’s a high time we stop using old fashioned ways of raising our demands. We will demonstrate until when? Why can’t we use future oriented techniques to ensure that we put the last nail on the coffin of greed and bury it forever and ever and ever to be forgotten? Just the other day we demonstrated when the Members of parliament wanted to award themselves heavy send-off packages and yet still right now when they are demanding for higher pay we may be tempted to demonstrate again....this sends one message that the demonstration did not convey any message to the minds of politicians. Thou am not against demonstration which I always think is the best way to voice the injustice in the society, why can’t we also develop modern methods which will change the direction of Kenya leadership once and for all because by the end of the day it’s not only our leaders that are greedy but each and every Kenya is a victim of such a vice either directly or in directly. I think we should form youth groups and go to schools or even call for youth conferences and share or teach each  other  about service to people and leadership skills cause am sure everyone has something to share and through this will be able to understand the problems facing our society due to greed at different levels such as  in our family, community, constituencies, county, national and international level and with no time we shall have developed new leaders who will defiantly enter into history to serve as a source of inspiration to future leader and generation.

Do not get me wrong am not against philanthropic Kenyans neither am I against free things from the government such as free education and now free laptops and milk. But free things from the government such as free education is an economic strategy to increase the revenue of the country, whereby the government will offer free education to the people, who will eventually get jobs and the government will tax them hence increase the taxation income unlike when majority of people fail to get jobs due to lack of education qualifications and go to casual employment which are rarely taxed.

President Uhuru on the opening of the 11^th parliament he stated that approximately 50% of the government revenue is spent on paying government civil service and I think this may increase due to the fact that members of parliament have increased from 222 to 349 and more civil servants are being employed for the ongoing devolution program. And I think as a developing country, we should be investing more than 60% of our revenue in infrastructure and income generating activity in order to achieve vision 2030 or else by the time we    achieve that vision we will be heavily in debts.

In my opinion it’s no time to point fingers towards our politicians because by the end of the day the other fingers point towards us, because it’s us who voted them there. It will begin by each one of us learning to eat his own genuine and honest sweat and training ourselves to be leaders not to benefit ourselves but our society and leadership is not about a heavy monthly pay but rather having heavy ideas for the development of the Kenyan society and history has proved this right look at leaders like Mobutu Sese Seko who seeked to enrich themselves and how they perished.

As for me and myself I chose not to cast the first stone, because am a greedy Kenyan in one way or the other, but to walk out of the stoning scene but at the same time to support the Salary and Remuneration commission for undertaking their constitutional mandate as per Article 230 of Constitution. SAY NO TO GREED AND WALK THE TALK!!!

WILL UHURUTO WALK THE TALK?

Politics is over, it is time to get back to work, It’s time to make the promises a reality. Uhuru’s government has made two crucial promises to school students:-

1)      Free laptops

2)      Free school milk

These promises are very rosy & I bet all Kenyans are excited to see them come true. But before the celebration of these promises begin; let’s ask a question that might call off the party: Which rat will bell the cat??

First, ICT is a developing concept in Kenya and per a research in 2009 by Information and Communication Technology, said 90% of teachers are computer illiterate, will the percentage have gone down by 2014 to meet the ICT student next year or will the government hire new ICT teachers & yet they are unable to pay the present teachers who frequently strike?

Secondly, my opinion is laptop should have begun with high school first so that if they graduate and become teachers they will be competent to train the primary ICT students. It is a rule in all training institutions that the learners begin with the concept or theory then the practical or application. Even in military you begin with the training how a gun works then you’re given the gun. This principle should also apply in here; Students should be given the theory of computers, then they be given the laptops not immediately they land in class one. Or at least they should change the syllabus.

Thirdly, the past government (but I appreciate the fact that this is a new government) was unable to supply free text book worth approximately Ksh.700 to every student, what about a laptop projected to cost about Ksh.12,750?

Fourthly, in rural areas no classes and classes are held under trees. Should government first create an ICT conducive environment before the laptop is brought in because how will they learn in rainy season?

Fifthly, electricity is not yet in all parts of the country, but well I know they are solar powered laptops but the sun is not always there, will there be learning in rainy season?

Sixth, Kenya children basic needs to be addressed sufficiently before investing on other things. I think students need to be given better clothing and food before a big investment is made on an item that they may not use since they will be unhealthy & unfit for the learning to take place.

Lastly, free milk, well it will make our school children healthy. But will it be on constant supply, because after every rainy season there is always no milk even for a consumer who wants to buy it with his own money....now, what a student who will get it for free?

Well, am not pessimistic neither am I the doubtful Thomas but am an optimistic who likes to know the framework of how things work, but I believe these two pledges are possible, because if Kenya planned The Thika Super Highway and we achieved, if we planned the Konza Techno City  and the LAPPSET transport network and have all begun what is impossible for us??

More so Kenyans will get employment opportunities, especially  ICT  professionals who should take this opportunity to enlarge their skills or businesses so that they will take advantage of this also farmers should improve on their daily production and all Kenyans should be ready to give to Caesar what is Caesar's .LONG LIVE KENYA!!

SHOULD KENYA RETHINK VISION 2030?

SHOULD KENYA RETHINK VISION 2030??Charles Dawin in his theory of evolutution said that the only species that survived are the ones that were able to change.History has proofed this right and over the years we have seen Kingdoms and companies collapse because they could not change. Kingdoms such as The Roman Empire that was almost the ruler of the world at a given time in history, one of the reason the kingdom collapse was that it was unable to change its war tactics and when the enemies learnt them, they crashed the kingdom. Companies such as Motorola which was the master of mobile phones in the world market delayed to change from analogue to digital mobile phones and before they knew it Nokia had taken over the market; the same fate was suffered by Ericsson. Also company like Kodak, which was known for its cameras and films filed for bankruptcy petition the other day since it was unable to change to digital cameras which had taken over the market...back here in Kenya companies such as Telecommunications and Posta are suffering the same fate since were unable to adapt to modern communication and now Safaricom is the master of Kenya communication....Don’t get me wrong that am comparing companies with a country(Kenya) but am emphasising the need of change. The vision 2030 is a Master plan, and one of its best plan is the construction of a world-class technology hub called KONZA TECHNO CITY(savana silicon) one of its kind ever made maybe in Africa, but if this city was planned to incorporate the 2012 technology, by the time we reach 2030 technology would have changed a lot and this city would not be relevant! And it will suffer the same fate as history has proved since it will not be able to have changed to the 2030 technology at that time since it was planed according to the present technology of 2012.....maybe the Vision 2030 plan should be revised annually to incorporate the latest changes in technology so that techno city will remain relevant even in the 30th Century and this should apply to all plans, for instance if electrical cars were to be the main cars in Kenya, in future, will the roads & parking places have instalments to charge them ....and that why I think Kenya should RETHINK VISION 2030.

ABORTION,SHOULD KENYA LEGALIZE IT?

ABORTION, should we legalize it?before you support or oppose look at a research as per eaclj.org:
*85% of teenager engage in sex and do not use contraceptives
*40% of birth are unplanned and 47% are among the teenager
*310,000 abortions are done every year in Kenya only
*21,000 women are admitted due to abortion complication due to unsafe abortions
*2,600 women eventually die due to abortion
life begins at conception as per The Constitution(art 26) and anyone who causes death of another, is a crime of murder as per Penal Code section 203. The Constitution permits abortion if the life of the mother is in danger.....but what about our mothers,sister aunties and school girls who a raped by there fathers,brothers uncles(incest)?what about those girls who are gang raped by thugs? shouldn't the law also permit them to abort?
I know religious institutions are the first to throw the stone against the support of abortion, but we can say its them who have failed to guide the society with moral principles on the importance of sex after marriage,for them not supporting the use of condoms, for them not carrying civil education to the youth about sexuality.....but well,there is no time to blame each other while life of more than 312,000 Kenyans might be lost by the end of this year-2013...
My opinion is this that a law should be passed clearly permitting abortion if :
1)The life of the mother is in danger,
2)if the girl became pregnant through forceful sexual intercourse through rape or incest
3)and to a given extend, if the pregnancy was unplanned and the couple have no financial means to meet the basic needs-this is because most of these children will end up being street children and get involved in drugs & sexual activity who will again become pregnant, lead to other street children and the cycle will go on and on,of what benefit will it b having streets full of street children hence increase crime and drug abuse?
4)and the law should state it clearly that any couple(both the father and mother) who undertake unlawful abortion due to their reckless sexual behavior they should be found guilty of murder.
because honestly, we can not continue losing our mothers & sisters due to unsafe abortions done on them....the church should also teach the society of the important moral principles on sexuality and schools and education centers should teach their students on the dangers and consequences of reckless sexual behavior
BUT,in any case if the government refuses to legalize abortion its my opinion also it should set up children homes where if a girl is raped and is financially unable to meet the needs of the child the child can be taken to these homes and stay there and can be adopted by another couple or can stay their until the lady is able to meet her needs and can pick the child at that time.
well,whether u support or oppose one thing you should know is life is a right to every man but whose life is important putting all factors in consideration..the mother's or the child's life?.....if your mother was the sole bread winner of your family and she is pregnant and due to health complication his pregnancy if not terminated she will die.....would you prefer her to die and live you as a street child since you have no means to provide for yourself or her to keep her pregnancy and later die together with the child in his womb...all in all LETS RESPECT LIFE.

ITS JUST MY OPINION: ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY

ITS JUST MY OPINION: ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY: last year on 19th December 2012 the  High Court slapped six officers with the death sentence after they were  found guilty by Justice Ochien...

ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY

last year on 19th December 2012 the  High Court slapped six officers with the death sentence after they were found guilty by Justice Ochieng of killing seven taxi drivers on March 11, 2010 on Naivasha Road in Kawangware, Nairobi.i really thank the court for putting "justice" in action since its quite rare for police officers to be found guilty of an offence, many time the case just ends and the police are released free to go,but this time the trend changed.
But we are in the 21st century the 2013, i think its a high time the death penalty be removed from the Kenyan statutes law and also the constitution should support the same.
i do  know the last time the death sentence was implemented was in 1987 and it was Hezekiah Rabala Ochuka after the attempted coup failed and he was found guilty since he was the master mind and he was hanged in Kamiti maximum prison.
Right to life is a right that should be respected by everyone and everything even the law itself.the Constitution of Kenya-2010, Article 26(3) that states about right to life states :A person shall not be deprived of life intentionally, except to the extent authorized by this Constitution or other written law. the constitution should state it clearly that the written laws exclude punishing criminal offenders .this is because a research done at different intervals by different criminologist shows that most criminals prefer the death sentence than the life imprisonment sentence.the reasoning of this research is that a criminal can perform any worse of the worse offence as long as he know if he is caught he will be hanged and his life will end there, but if a criminal knows he will spend the rest of his life in prison he will fear because of the loneliness and the solitude he will experience while alone in the prison.in my opinion life imprisonment is a better deterrent to crime than the death penalty,the criminologist continue to say that criminals if place in the right environment, they will reform since humans are naturally good but due to the environment they grow in they mentally change into inhuman behavior. in this sense i think Kenya should reform the prisons and create sections where the worst of the worst prisoners will be kept and the right environment be created and hence give them an opportunity to reform and join the society again or continue with life imprisonment,this is because some of these criminals, became so because of the violent up bringing environment which they grew in. may be their parents were fighting violently every now and then or they grew in a society where people killed each other anyhow and hence they developed the mentally that for them to survive in these world they have to use violence hence becoming hard-co criminals yet its not their fault.
so far Kenya has 1,440 prisoners sentenced to death(as per the penal reform organisation) and this prisoners are been subjected to unreasonable mental anguish and suffering,psychological trauma and anxiety after extended stay on the death row and thus is a violation of human dignity and the state is indirectly discriminating them which are serious offences in the bill of rights.because how would you feel if a person told you he/she is going to kill you brutally and painfully one day one time and he does not say when..how will you fill as you move from day to day with that fear that one day you will be killed brutally and painfully...and that's how prisoners fell while waiting for that unknown day to reach.
Kenya has abolished the death sentence by de facto(by fact or by practice) but one day who knows it may be applied and thats why it has to be abolished by all statutes and supported by the constitution.LETS GIVE PRISONERS ANOTHER CHANCE, LETS RESPECT LIFE.