The government, the government, the government!!! What the hell don’t we know about the government of Kenya? If it isn’t Corruption its tribalism and nepotism, if it isn’t coalition standoffs it is Executive verses legislature wrangles. It’s a replica with honesty verses dishonesty, inaction versus action, anti-reformers verse reformers etc.
You really annoy me my brother, you should have kept mum if you didn’t have words to say. People are dying and it is extremely disappointing that you have said that food and resources are available to avert this crisis yet the pictorials that we see each day and night are alarming and unforgivable. Are we talking of citizens of this country or are we in different zones?
Mr. GOK Spokesman how can you dare stand before the eyes of God and of the people of Kenya and with a penchant of habitual denials annoy us by stating that you have no reports of deaths in drought prone areas whereas the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya told and attested to parliament that a total of 20 Kenyans were reported to have died of hunger.
You have only continued to drive the point home that you are serving a disjointed and failing government. I thought you should be trying to unify your pronouncement to the effect that they will preserve the little trust we had for the leadership of this country but have only submitted to us, that even the little hope we had for you we must take away.
The horn of Africa suffers specter of famine
Failure by governments in the horn of Africa to borrow leaf from countries with success stories keeps plunging them into distress of disaster management conflicts. Famine in Kenya is back after decades of drought and this exposes our governance systems into ridicule. Experts have time and again warned on looming trends of tragedy but our sleeping leaders only see the reality when it’s too late.
The pictures appearing in our media stations showing dying African malnourished children and adults is distress to all of us. It is a shame that the current famine is rated the worst in several decades, this is according to various humanitarian groups.
We must change tact to win famine
We should have started thinking of long-term measures a while ago. No amount of aid will end will instantly end drought in all the affected counties and that’s why I insist on long-term measures that will seek to sustain food security.
With the weather man suggesting scarcity or no rain at all a temporary measure of donor support and other efforts should be used to impress in the short term. It could be true that the government is devastatingly trying to salvage the situation at their very best but to us their best is our worst. The government must excuse us for feeling. We are simply expressing our democratic rights which are enshrined in the Constitution.
It is high time that the government should pull up its resources and borrow ideas from well established institutions in developed countries to harness knowledge on food security tips in their agricultural set ups.
The government should read t tale tell signs then develop a master plan on strategies that touch on food security and human social welfare. How do we spend our resources to mitigate adverse conditions like famine? Why should we engage donor support yet we tolerate malpractices like corruption? If we defended integrity and accountability and cherished selfless leadership then our management efforts to avert famine would bear fruit 100percent.
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