"Whereas she came as a top diplomat on behalf of his boss President
Barack Obama to deliver his message, it is not lost on us that she
cannot, at her level, pursue what she does not believe in. Media reports
indicate that she expressed reservations about Deputy Prime Minister
Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto vying for president.
Reports indicate that she hinted America would impose sanctions on
the country if the two vied and won. This cannot go unchallenged.
Sometimes I wonder whether the US believes in the democracy they
preach about every time. Or perhaps their ‘democracy for export’ is
quite different from their ‘democracy for home consumption’. Unless I’m
completely wrong, democracy is people-driven. It does not matter whether
the people are right or wrong; the word of the people prevails.
I do not want to go on and on about sovereignty; some would say we
have heard that already. I also do not intend to belabour the point of
the international law principle of non-interference with the domestic
affairs of other states; some would say it happens all the time.
Rather I’m appealing to our sense of human dignity. This is the last
thing we have and if we lose it, we lose everything. We have lost our
economic and political rights to foreign interests. We have to consult
all and sundry before we take any action at home.
We do this without acknowledging one fact; every nation has its own
interests that are paramount and will achieve them through subjugation
of others. A keen observer would see the negative effects we suffer as a
result of the ideals imposed on us by the West. Think critically of the
SAPs and ESAF.
It is a high time we asked ourselves of the dent to human dignity
that is caused by having Kenyans to pay for accessing public toilets in
towns; in a country where citizens do not have enough to eat. Poor
Kenyans cannot access clean water in towns; this in a country where we
have rivers and lakes. All this, as a consequence of Western-driven
“reforms”.
It is a high time Kenyans and Africans in general, fought against
neocolonialism. Dictatorship is abhorrent. Crimes against humanity are
indeed crimes against God. But who said that only the West could see
them and deal with them. Are we so daft that we cannot make decisions on
our own without being prodded by the West?" (thanks Bu'ush)
