Author: jamaapoa
•Wednesday, April 16, 2008
This is my 100th post almost 2 years since I launched the blog. A milestone, I guess. As I flashback I can see I did not live up to be an avid poster and my blogosphere network is negligible if not inexistent. It could be by design, not accidental. After all, isn't everything predestined.

Unfortunately things are not right in Kenya right now.

My worst nightmare, the Mungiki, has come home to roost. They are more sophisticated and are getting more ruthless by the day. The government machinery looks overwhelmed, leaving ordinary citizens, especially in Nairobi and surrounding areas, wondering where to run for help. It looks like of late whenever a section of the society is disgruntled by the ruling class, they result to destructive mass action that grinds the country to a halt so that the government can give them audience.

I have always wondered how the Mungiki can be dealt with and eliminated from the society and I have always hit a dead end. I had a discussion with a friend on what can be done to Mungiki the other day. As I was exploring the various 'finality' ways of dealing with such vermin, he commented, "be careful, they are our brothers and sisters!". Yes, our brothers and sisters who do not regard with dignity our life and property, their brothers and sisters.

We have a bloated cabinet that disillusions and adds to the hopelessness of Kenyans. The cabinet will no doubt multiply our poverty and divide our meager earnings. They will extrapolate our ethnic divisions and punch out our eardrums with their never-ending bickering. They will reduce the life expectancy of an average Kenyan who can do nothing about it. My greatest beef is the recycling of aged politicians who can't even read an email on a computer screen leave alone reply to it. The youth again have been sidelined to be future leaders, the leaders of tomorrow.

With poverty levels rising, looming food crisis, an inflation that is rising by double digits, high prices of basic commodities, fuel getting to the hundreds, increasing unemployment, soaring insecurity, poor infrastructure, a neglected AIDS crisis, thousands of Kenyans in IDP camps with no immediate hope of resettlement and a disgruntled youth population that is the Kenya's next time bomb, there is no reason why one cannot conclude that Kenya is getting so messed up.


Author: jamaapoa
•Monday, April 07, 2008
Right now I am in a rage. A rage that is mixed with despair. What to do; that is the question. Someone, somewhere, right now is causing pain and anguish to a people I hold so dear. A people I hold so close to my heart. I know this someone, and have reasons to believe they are the cause of this misery. Nevertheless, I do not have credible evidence against them. Yes, it is a serious matter. A police case, they say. Previous attempts to resolve this matter legally have not borne fruit. It is all about evidence that can stand a court process.

I have engaged the gears of my spiritual mind. They say that I should pray until something happens. Yet, with each passing hour, I am shifting to a lower gear. Engaging the turbo and the 4WD, in the recesses of a crafty mind. Eerie stuff of how I can end all this are hazily indicating a left turn to the direction of my imagination. I am plotting and I am not liking it.
Author: jamaapoa
•Thursday, March 20, 2008
Last Sunday was Palm Sunday. I traveled upcountry to join the local Christians there in celebration of...palm Sunday, I think. The city and its environs were full of same old same old processions. The Pentecostals ignored the day altogether and went on with their normal prosperity gospel. Aren't things back to normal? Tomorrow is Good Friday, ushering in the Easter weekend. It is rote. Kenya Christians will celebrate Easter in unchristian ways and move on to April. Life goes on.

Assuming 80 per cent of Kenyans are Christians, events that engulfed Kenya in December, January and February have left me wondering whether there are any Christians in Kenya or whether it is worth being one. Christians massacred Christians and burnt their homes and properties. Christians were burnt in a Christian church by fellow Christians.

Christians burnt 13 Christian churches in Kibera alone, and a further 400 Christian churches were burnt by Christians in the expansive Christian-rich Rift Valley. Christian leaders incited Christian supporters to rise up against their Christian neighbours, or looked the other way when they heard the plots against their fellow Christians. Christians are still burning and killing each other in Mt Elgon and Laikipia areas.

Yes, Christians cheated, stole and killed. They even cheated and rigged in the elections. They came up with justifications for their unchristian actions and plotted to cover up their misdeeds. Some even engaged in self-redemption tactics.

President Kibaki is a Catholic Christian and Prime Minister Raila is an Anglican Christian. These two Christians watched as fellow Christians killed each other, when they knew that their Christian words were enough to quell the violence. They are now both in power and have forgotten that their Christian countrymen are wallowing in the misery of IDP camps, refugees in their own Christian country.

The Christian spiritual leaders even vied for political posts. There is a bishop in parliament. She is not the first one; there have been others before her. They failed to make a Christian mark. Her three months in politics are a herald of things to come; no change. God had spoken to Bishop Muiru that he was the anointed one for the presidency. Kalonzo Musyoka was supposed to be a presidential product of a Christian prophecy. A miracle.

Oh ye Kenyan Christians, who has bewitched you?

Do we really have Christians in Kenya? I doubt. They all live in denial. They are ungodly Christians. Maybe the Christian religion cannot be sustained without the shedding and burning of human blood? There are no Christians in Kenya! If they are there, their Christian voices would have been heard and respected during the pre and post election unchristian crisis.

Now that there are no Christians in Kenya, how can there be Christian spiritual leaders in Kenya? In Kenya today, there is at least one cardinal, several archbishops, hundreds of bishops, thousands of reverends, tens of thousands of pastors and hundred of thousands of other fancy titles like apostles, deacons, fathers, brothers, sisters, and church elders. Yeah, titles devoid of Christian leadership and values.

In Kenya, the Easter Christian message is yet to change Kenya Christians’ unchristian hearts and minds. It is not worth being a Kenyan Christian, don't you think so?