SOCIETAL DECAY THAT STENCHES.

I am not one of those political analysts who waste our precious time on TV in the guise of breaking down the political atmosphere of the country to the common Mwananchi, while at the same time using Byzantine words and uttering ambiguity. I still wonder how they expect the common citizen to understand all that English of the nose. I am of the strong view that they should stick to practicing their political analysis in lecture theatres and leave us alone to enjoy our soap operas in peace.

Anyway, away from our learned friends. I am still holed up in a Kamukunji with me, myself and I still arguing as to whether I should blast some people with insults because of their blatant display of ignorance as they continuously cause mother earth pain due to their nature-destructive ways.  I hope none of my fiery insults will find themselves in any of the following sentences, as I hit the keys on this board, but if they do, well, I am so not sorry!

First, I will address myself to our honorable leaders who after all, are not so honorable anyway. I still don’t understand how a representative of the people will stab at the back, the same people who so generously showered them with their precious votes during the elections! Your people cry of food insecurity, but hey! Look who just grabbed land in a wetland and put up huge buildings there? Your people cry of water shortage but look! Who just cleared acres of forest for their pockets sake? Your people cry of their land giving up on them, look! Who just dumped tons and tons of waste on agricultural land? look who just signed the papers illegally for some rich tycoon to set up shop next to our rivers and when diseases break out, we have no one to turn to because your evil, twisted ways push us down the drains, and our lives become much more unbearable. Your political gimmicks our dear leaders, are the end of Mother Nature, and when she is gone, we go down with her.

To my fellow citizens, I am now very sick and tired of your ignorance and continuous pathetic excuses of “I didn’t know”. Doesn’t that repetition burst your eardrums?! You dump domestic waste anyhow, a walk down these streets tell of a tale of waste, sore to the eye and your excuse? It’s the government’s work to take care of your waste for you. Till when for you to stop shifting your responsibilities to others. You cut down trees for fuel, and you expect us to let you be because it’s your only source of fuel, how ignorant? You don’t even care about what you are cutting down, as long as its’ physical attributes are fit for it to be called a tree, then fire wood and charcoal it becomes. You don’t care how many elephants are remaining in the world, but as long as its tusks are large enough for some hefty notes and silver, then it’s game for you.

If the Pharisees during Jesus’ time were still alive, then am pretty sure they would be complaining to him for calling them hypocrites while the big ones are you and me. Our fear of responsibility and over dependence of the government has turned us into robots who can’t think for themselves. We are a people with eyes but do not see what we are turning our world into, a people with ears but can’t hear mother earth’s cry of help, because we are so engulfed in exploiting her resources that we don’t see the harm we do to her. The moment she strikes back, everyone is up in arms shifting blames and pointing an accusing finger to the governments of the day, forgetting, not even the strongest or most stable government can tone down Mother Nature’s vengeance, because, she hits where it hurts the most.
        By Githinji Kiiru.