Kenyans often exhibit.
Ochieng is not talking of the blind loyalty of the positive type that Kenyans on Twitter now known as Kenyans on X, exhibit when they are being hyper patriotic in defense of country and flag whenever outsiders try to belittle us.
And not certainly the type of loyalty that ensures that those that choose to oppress us with tongue lashings are‘ salimiwad’ and put into their proper cages and silenced. Kenyans fighting for their political space are oft called the Uber and KFC generation.
Their parents are castigated by politicians on high horses that berate them for not bringing up robots that show deference to any politician who needs to be called honorable to remind him of just how dishonorable he is as a role model.
Ochieng is referring to the blind loyalty to an entity one does not understand to a degree that Kenyans have murdered each other disputing the supremacy of their alien clubs even though they have not even approached the gates of the proposed Adani’ s airport.
What level of stupidity is required to knife a fellow Kenyan on the result of a match that you are both watching on television. That type of blind allegiance has been the bane of Kenya and has stunted opportunities for Kenyan progress.
Ochieng would like you to picture a Kenyan who is suffering from the effects of inane Rutonomics which translates a bottom-up economy as the transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top by a series of ill-conceived taxes.
Picture this same person, frothing at the mouth with juicy epithets aimed at the administration as be dresses in readiness to answer the call of Baba who has promised the government a bruising battle on the streets to address the cost of living.
The person dresses and arms himself with strategic missiles just in case the police are
Are Kenyans loyalty to the country or an individual. For sixty years we’ ve had political musical chairs involving the same players. Isn’ t it about time that Kenyans queried their blind loyalty to these politicians. If they haven’ t taken you far in six decades how many more decades do you propose to blindly entrust to them so that they can dig you deeper into the morass. Haven’ t Kenyans suffered enough to decide to vote for Kenya first.
foolhardy enough to lop teargas into the matchers. It is a well-known fact that there are no such things as peaceful protests in Kenya. The Kenyan police is irrevocably violent.
The police were previously known as the police force, since the only response they have to any situation is force. They have rebranded to a police service but what they do now is serve injustice, as usual, except now in a new‘ expensive’ uniform made in Gikomba.
The person presents himself at the appointed venue where the bush telegraph informs them to gather and they begin their weekly skirmishes with the police ostensibly to liberate Kenyans from the clutches of a ruthless robber and his cabal.
Like a gift from heaven, in comes a group called the Gen-Zs with a similar mission and way much younger. They inform the Baba goons that they are not only fighting against unjust taxes but a person who is committed to ruining their collective futures.
They respectfully request Baba to step aside for the moment since he has done his part in speaking for Wanjiku who is now called Mama Mboga. All hell breaks loose as the determined youngsters push the government to the ropes.
The commander in chief has run out of ideas and it is just a matter of time for him to capitulate and hand over the instruments of power to the people who had in the first place elected him to serve them but was failing miserably.
Then the unthinkable happens and the person who had dressed and moved to the streets to fight for Baba’ s agenda is given new instructions to remove the youngsters from the street since Baba has now entered into an arrangement with the tax collector.
Imagine the shock and horror when those who were supposed to guard your flanks are the ones attacking you and in total disbelief the whole campaign is thrown into disarray and the supposed common enemy becomes an ally of your hero.
History will at one time record this moment as the lowest that Kenya had attained in its struggle against oppression. History will also record that the taxes did not come down nor was the cost of living addressed but a mutual arrangement was concluded.
Ochieng is not so concerned about the domestic arrangement of the political class but is justifiably worried about the blind loyalty of the person who dressed to go to the streets. Was his loyalty to a cause or to a person?
What type of blind loyalty informs a person to endanger his life for a person who does not have his interests at heart. Come to think of it the only fame that Kibera ever achieved since independence was as the biggest slum in Africa.