{"id":440662,"date":"2011-06-14T06:20:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T06:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/14\/kenya-marginalised-minority-end-the-sad-chorus\/"},"modified":"2011-06-14T06:20:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T06:20:17","slug":"kenya-marginalised-minority-end-the-sad-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/14\/kenya-marginalised-minority-end-the-sad-chorus\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Marginalised? Minority? End the Sad Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Clay Muganda<\/p>\n

13 June 2011<\/p>\n

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Nairobi \u2014 When it all started, there was gnashing of teeth and everyone was breathing fire and brimstone.<\/p>\n

Many called Press conferences and banged tables, and Raila Odinga was called more names in two weeks than he has been called in his lifetime.<\/p>\n

Maybe he deserved those names because he was throwing not just a spanner in the works, but a whole workshop – welding machine, lathe machine, grinder, cutter, filing tool, you name it; Raila threw it in – what with him being an engineer who knows how to deal more with human beings than with metals or machines.<\/p>\n

During the banging of tables and whining, the Speaker of the National Assembly was also thrown in the mix, and did we hear the word ‘impeachment’?<\/p>\n

We are in Kenya, where we hear so many words from characters who do not know what the said words mean.<\/p>\n

When there was a climb down, all those who were making the loudest noises started applauding… or kept mum – yes, ‘mum’ was the word, considering that she had to come to the aid of her son, he of the banging tables infamy – and the country moved on … and the JSC took over … and while it was entertainment galore, Raila did not take the credit … neither was he given any.<\/p>\n

So we have opened a new chapter where public vetting is the order of the day.<\/p>\n

When the CIOC took over, people were still glued to their tellies, applauding how we had opened a new chapter in public entertainment … until we got to the DPP.<\/p>\n

As Kenyans went atwitter with a double entendre joke on how we got a new CJ who is studded for extra justice, others were saying that the person being vetted to be DPP was the right one because he comes form a minority community that is also marginalised.<\/p>\n

Say what? Marginalised? Minority? Really?<\/p>\n

Forget about his qualifications, his community was a good enough qualification, and for a moment there we almost forgot which community is the face of Kenya’s tourism sector, which community controls one of the biggest and most lucrative game reserves in the world.<\/p>\n

That was an insult, not to the people of Kenya, but to Keriako Tobiko himself, to be offered a job not because he is qualified, but because he comes from a minority community which is also marginalised.<\/p>\n

The new Kenya has just become old and I think we should have a President from the Njemps or the El Molo.<\/p>\n

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