Monday, October 11, 2010

The ICC and the Politics of Stupidity

Last Updated: October 10, 2010 22:04

The ICC Investigations are coming faster, and the focus has narrowed to a few cabinet Ministers who were financiers and Perpetrators of the Post Election Violence. We all know that the ICC Prosecutor has to build the burden of proof to indict those individuals with credible evidence to be admissible in the Chambers of the International Criminal Court. We also know that those people whose names will be released as having a case to answer will carry their own cross.

Panic has struck and the politicians who are feeling that they will be under investigation have started to marshal their political sycophants and the old phrase of "Our Community is being targeted" have made a return. While at it another brigade came up in their characteristic caricatured and comical press advocacy and said that their own sponsored party leaders had meetings calling for mass action for Kenyans to go kill themselves. 

In a swift rejoinder an equally charged group of cabinet ministers from the said political party came out fighting frustrated at the comments made by the political comedians who have overburdened the tax payer. I was very shocked when I saw another member of parliament on the floor of the house stating that his entire Kalenjin Nation had not been represented on the PNU list of nominees to the Parliamentary Constitutional Implementation Committee. 

Fast forward to the weekend, it was all drama as more troops joined the comical debate of tribal kingpins and another one on why Kenyans will fight even more if some politicians were indicted to answer for their SINS.

What I have been wondering is why these folks keep on getting prime time on national news to pour their stinking verbosity on issues that are divisive and backward thinking. Why do our media keep focusing on these political sycophants who keep on displaying their politically motivated ethnic stupidity?

For Kenya to move forward through the New Constitution, we have to dethnicize our politics and fully embrace inclusivity and oneness as Kenyans. Let us get rid of the characters who are ethnicising leadership and reducing their positions in leadership as a theater of the witty and the absurd. I personally lost faith in the kind of leadership we have from day one.

I just wonder why the politicians keep on thinking that Kenyans are so stupid a people that they will keep on following them to political yonda of oblivion! In a country where we still have IDP's there must be Justice and those individuals who committed the crimes against our fellow Kenyans should not be allowed to hide behind Parliament perimeter and confines of cabinet offices and when the run becomes tough they run back to their so called tribes/clans in the name of "My people"

Those individuals must pay the ultimate price of causing the deaths, destructions and displacements post the 2007 elections. We should all stand by the ICC and stop the political stupidity by a few politicians to mislead us. We welcome OCAMPO and his team and the best Christmas gift he can give us is warrants of arrests to those politicians that think they are the "Untouchables" We are Keenly watching your moves Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo!!!

Emmanuel Dennis

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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

THE MERU and ISINYA Youth FORUM You don't want to Miss

Good Friend---

On 27th October October, we will be kicking off our grassroots engagement with the First Forum in MERU County. We will be making a case for uniting our voices, our votes and beginning the journey to reclaiming the assumption that the young generation is not ready for Leadership. We hope that those of you who are near MERU County do not want to miss this opportunity. We are also appealing to any other young leaders both at national and grassroots level who want to join us during the ground breaking meeting to come along and pass a message of solidarity to our friends in MERU.


BUT it isn't just about MERU,  it's about KENYA…We want to start knocking doors, sending text messages and talking to our friends and neighbors and let them know that they have a historic moment to move our country to the next level through unity of purpose in community.


An amazing thing happened when over 100 young people in Isinya collected money to host a KATIBA meeting in Isinya. They have also invited us to go and facilitate the constitutional discussions. After Meru we head to Isinya on 30th October. You are also welcome to join us in Isinya Kajiado County.

Two more Forums are planned for Nyeri and Siaya in November and December respectively.


It's just the beginning and we will cover all the 47 counties in 2011 and 2012. Through you, we will make a difference. We expect a minimum of 200 young people in those meetings. The young at heart are also encouraged to participate because we are all Kenyans and we must work together in moving our country to efficiency and get rid of the corrupt network of lethargic leaders come 2012.


To keep retirees from scavenging over County and Regional governments, we are looking to turn the volume across the country and it starts with YOU and ME. Will you work with us to bring this Forum to your County? With your help we can and will Rework a New Kenya. We are better together.


Regards,


Emmanuel Dennis

 



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Emmanuel Dennis Ngongo
YES Kenya Leader
Initiator of the Green Teams Initiative
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Nairobi Kenya
Cell: +46706048398
http://emmanuel-ed.blogspot.com/
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