Voting is
being allowed to give an opinion on who you feel/think should be your leader.
This being the case, those seeking to be elected do all they can to influence
your opinion. A wise and discerning voter, should be able to see through the
smoke screens. They should be able to form a personal opinion taking into
consideration real issues that affect them and looking at how best these issues
can be addressed and who is best suited to do this.
Unfortunately,
this is not the case. And politicians knowing that, have always had a field day
to play with the mind of the masses knowing that they can form an opinion on
behalf of the individual citizens, opinions that will favor them as politicians.
I sought to analyze
some of the beliefs in the minds of the people that continue to keep us in the
position we find ourselves year in year out.
- By putting our tribe ahead of our country, we allow the politicians to put themselves ahead of the country.
- By maintaining our indifferences, we allow the politicians to stick with their greed.
- We complain about their actions but Do nothing about it.
- Our leaders reflect who we are; selfish and ignorant citizens produce selfish and ignorant leaders.
- There is an African proverb that says, “Never negotiate in Hunger”. We have allowed our leaders to starve us so much that we end up selling our birthright for a bowl of soup.
- . Have you had someone say; “I would have voted for so and so, I know and feel they are the right person, but voting for them is wasting my vote”? We have been made to believe that our one vote, our one voice doesn’t count. That as an individual we don’t have the power to make a difference.
- We have been made to think that a political position is not a job but a reward. And that is why we want to reward ‘our own’, whether they can do the job or not.
- We have been made to believe that the people with a lot of money are better leaders. Just say that aloud and hear yourself. What happened to leadership being a calling?
- We want to believe the next leadership will bring change but we are not willing to change our voting habits.
- . The politicians have made us doubt our ability to make independent opinions and they have given us opinion polls.
- . The politician say, “Do not vet me by my capacity, vet me by my tribe and the numbers I represent”. We have set that as our standard.
- We have been made to believe that the next leader will still be corrupt and thus it will be less worse if they are from our tribe.
- We are made to believe we will vote wisely yet we have been tethered by our wrong perspectives.
- . We are made to believe that the politicians are doing us a favor.
Do you see
the uphill struggle simply by going through the above statements? We have to
say it like it is and confront the issues at hand. For how long will this
continue? For how long will we suffer? For how long will we remain enslaved in
our own land? For how long will we remain on survival mode, yet our country has
a lot of untapped potential? For how long will we live like strangers in our
own land? For how long will we remain miserable and lose whole generations to the vices that surround
us? What is the point of all this?
For you, this
must start to be the mouthpiece of the new sound, the new voice and the new change
agent. It starts by speaking the truth. We have to desperately want to see a
real transformation in this country. It starts by talking to your family, your
brothers, your sisters and your friends, We have to talk about these things. We
have to confront the lies and the nothingness. NIPE TANO. If only you can reach
out to five households with this message, five workmates, five friends and five
neighbors. We have to start a movement that will take us to our destiny as a
people of Kenya and most importantly as a people of Mombasa.
I,
TendaiMtana, believe that, the future of our county Mombasa is in our hands. It
is within our reach.
NIPE TANO.
MAMBO NI SASA!
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