It is almost coming to
be interesting that very soon our sons and daughters will have to be taught “a striking
nation” as one of identifying characteristics of this beautiful Kenya.
It is barely a month since teachers called off their strike, barely a week
since doctors threatened a strike was looming and barely hours since KNUT
issuing another notice for a strike if within seven days the notice is not
responded to. Who is to blame?
If I was good in law, maybe
I would get sufficient grounds to justify one and condemn the other. But that
aside, will the blame game and endless press conferences by the involved
parties be of any help? I believe just as I am, Kenyans must be tired with the
everyday press conferences summoning strikes?
Sincerely, does it mean
the methods of conflict resolution we were taught in High school, even in
Primary school, were only for passing exams but not application? Let’s openly
share this out and tell of what benefit it will be to a class one kid still
struggling for his or her future to tune to news everyday warning him or her of
a looming strike?
It is just two years
since all sectors came out pomping and grinning on the reforms that had taken
place in judiciary saying that it had restored its dignity. Then why is it that
when it comes to implementation of rulings that don’t favour us we sternly come
out to condemn judiciary and claim it’s a government cartel. Unless am wrong
and I stand to be corrected, the ruling of the industrial court over the just
ended teachers’ strike clearly stated that it was illegal. What did this mean?
Why couldn’t someone move to appeal so as to avert consequences that could late
accompany the ruling?
Actually, the present
is watching. And remember, it’s from the present that we constitute our future.
The future shall hold us accountable of all the atrocities and injustices we
bestow on the innocent, young angels who are still grappling to make their future
any better from education. One day they will stand to ask us why we never did
what was right when we shall be telling them what’s right in the name of wisdom
of the old.
I kindly challenge the
society at large, to be cautious of the moves we make and judge first before
implementing. How good would it be if just half of us would put the interests
of this country first before putting our own selfish, malicious, parasitic
interests? Just imagine, what would be the gain? Am not trying to justify
anybody or condemn anyone, but condemning the ill character mushrooming in our
society. Somebody said, “Our Children are having hard time to learn good
manners, because they don’t see good manners anywhere” and I agree.
Who
is to blame?
I go on my knees and
pray, after talking this much, because nobody may hear me, and pray that the
notice issued today for industrial action by the teachers Union, KNUT, will not
mature before an amicable solution is reached. It will not only be beneficial
to our children but also to the economy of this beautiful country that I adore.
It shall be a move that
shall grant the participants great honour and make history be kind to them.
However we may not award them in any way for doing this, for the good of this
country, there is somebody somewhere who’ll award them in kind.
I may be writing this
much yet adding you words to construct a sentence to abuse me back, but please,
consider my request beautiful Kenyans. No one will ever come to build Kenya
unless we do it by ourselves.
God Bless Kenya, God
Bless the People of Kenya.
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