Politicians & MRC

|Two political rallies were held in the coastal town of Mombasa by two political heavyweights namely Mudavadi and Raila. It is a script that we have seen over and over and over again in our political scene every time we get near the elections. Two bed fellows all over sudden become distant and cold and eventually nemesis to each other.

Sticky point though dealt with by the two sons of Kenya on the coastal town was the quickly spreading nightmare of the MRC secession calls for the coastal region. We did see both politicians extending an olive branch to the MRC (an outlawed group by the government by the way) to sit down and chat a way forward.
While it is important to address the issues affecting the coastal region as a whole, the last time i checked, threatening to secede from a country is a crime known as treason!

The area know today as KENYA was not agreed upon by any of the communities currently living there. This was all done during the scramble for Africa by the European powers and like when in my childhood we would have our mum cut the white african cake (ugali) into pieces enough for each of her 7 kids for the day, us as Kenyans, didn't have a say at all regarding the boundaries that were laid down some 100 or so years now.
If now we start encouraging one region to balkanise themselves from the rest of the country, what are we telling the other regions? I use the word encourage because if politicians can stand on a podium and make promises to a group, which has clearly stated its intentions of secession, then that goes to cement the groups intentions.
There is no doubt in my mind that all these is being done for the simple reason of garnering votes to the said politicians and not necessarily to solve the regions problems. It is therefore very misleading for politicians to continue fooling Kenyans with their greed for power which makes them not to be brave enough to say even the unpopular truths!

Every region in this country is faced by numerous challenges, and especially regarding the youth. My major concern about the MRC is the posibility of being infiltrated by radial extremists, and the Kenya as we know it would be long buried in history books. We have all seen what has been going on in the Josh region of Nigeria in the last couple of years. With our politicians being so negligent on how the handle some to these very thorny issues, it is scary to think what kind of a bomb we are toss around each other. Tullow Oil have recently discovered even more oil deposits in Turkana. If there are regions that have been relegated to the back seat in the colonial, independence and modern Kenya, it is the North Eastern Kenya. We surely do not want to trigger negative emotions about this country 50 years on, as much as greater part of those 50 years have been barely getting by while carrying aloft the Wenye Nchi. Let us not let clowns who have ascended into positions of power take our dear country to the dogs as we watch!