...MInoRIty Report to Dear PEV 1300 pLUs or MInUs,

Maybe the 1300 plus or minus who died were lucky. Yes, that number refers to those who died after the 2007 botched General Elections. And yes, you can call me a sadist, but that’s my take, and, maybe you need to listen (read) first. And yes, I was a clerk at some polling point in High-level (Estate), but if some rigging took place, it was not there. We were in a high-end estate, people do not rig in such places. Or they ought not to.

Anyway, let me go straight to the lucky 1300 plus or minus. Kenyans fought. We really did. I mean we fought; pangas, jembes, knives, spoons, stones, fires and even bullets. It was like a weaponized Wrestle-Mania, not a group of 15, but the whole country. From the highlands to the lowlands. Heck, we even fought orally, bad words and infighting through our 42-mouths. There was no reason. Infact, I only survived the fighting as I live in a high-end street, plus the perks that come with a gated neighbourhood. I won’t say the ‘Coast’ factor helped me, as some hoods here-normally known as ‘Peaceful’ Coast, were also embroiled in the battles. More of vandalism though.

And the fighting was orchestrated by whoever just because of two gentlemen, or are they gentle? Kenya fought and people died just ‘cause of two people, and the need and personal urge for one of them to have the cake. Photo after photo, and footage after footage showed the extent Kenyans had gone to, to take sides in the contest. And where were the two gentlemen? I wonder. Heck, even politicians were divided into two humongous groups.

Fast forward to the intelligent, and I would repeat, ‘Intelligent’ Justice Philip Waki. He racked his brains and decided to go after the politicians. He must have decided the local mwananchi was a non-issue in the whole burn-out episode as the 1300 plus or minus who died, covered that, since the number largely constituted of local wananchi, no politicians. They don’t die in fires while locked up, nor do they get hacked to death or amputation by pangas. Local wananchi do.

Waki made a list, and after that list was revealed, we realized the politicians may be as normal as us, taking sides without thinking of the future. Well, the 1300 plus or minus had caught up on them. And the top two had duped them too, whether by principle or through coincidence. They are now facing charges, for the lucky 1300 plus or minus.

As for the rest of us, and I mean the local mwananchi, we may be as equal as we can imagine. Since 2007, things have been going from bad to worse, and we are experiencing it as 42 mouths. Inflation that is threatening to burst, corruption in the government that is affecting us all, failed rains that are making us all face hunger and therefore more inflation, hiked fares, impunity, displaced citizens, dying citizens in famine-hit areas, lawlessness and now GM maize. We are facing all these disasters as equals, not as PRO or ANTI-the 2007-botched- election-yet-to-be-seriously-known-rightful-winner.

All tribes that form Kenya, even the tribe called the Kenyan Police, are facing starvation and inflated prices. After all the stupid fighting and rampant shooting of demonstrating Kenyans, we are suffering as one. I can bet even some relatives of the protagonists are facing starvation too, even though they fiercely defended their ‘watu’. We are suffering as ONE, not 42 tribes, not just local wananchi, not as regions, not as those who voted for a particular candidate, but as one.

Maybe that is why we were FOOLs to fight over people who cannot directly help us from our current predicaments. When you buy a packet of maize for Ksh 150, no one is there to offer you a comforting hand. We messed and fought over people instead of virtues like good governance, accountability and reason.

None of the 1300 plus or minus in their lifetimes did buy a packet of maize flour at Ksh 150, nor did they face the prospect of consuming GMOs. They are Lucky. May they RIP as we continue to languish in pieces.