Disability is not Inability

:: What do we need to reach there?

Changing the Value system:

Corruption is increasingly making justice not our shield and defender. Corruption is not only to target financial gain. It also includes targeting political gain. That is why the MOU is a thorn in Kibaki’s Presidency.

So it is not about Truth and reconciliation for Goldenberg or Anglo-leasing or President Moi’s or Kenyatta’s misdeeds. It is about values that make people see the results of honest hard work. Corruption is high because we give undue value to quick gains whichever the means.

Few are satisfied with what they have as a vehicle to what they desire. Many feel they have to have what another has to be able to get what they desire.

The Kenyan Dream if there is anything like that has been warped by corruption of our value system. Where ability will be what differentiates between any two kenyans. Where hard word is rewarded on equal measure irrespective of physical sensual or mental handicap...

So anti-corruption is not the answer but the watchdog. The answer lies in leadership values. The value system we use to provide service to them who we serve builds or breaks.

Governance structures: Media, political parties’ and civil society

Value systems is what will guide the interpretation of the law by the courts, it is what will guide editorial directions, it is what will settle political and economic competition to enable democratic examples that can lead a country from where we are to where we need to go.

Editorial partisanship especially of the kind that glorifies tribe even by simple yet loud commissions and omissions are the building blocks to where we don’t want to go.

The Narc government was built with significant contribution by the civil society. Yet the same civil society had turned against the principles and values we thought they know more about than any other. Civil society is but as a friend put it, was the best job available. This significantly now includes religious organizations.

There is no difference between the PWD leader who uses the little more information s/he has to get funds to enrich his desires as the religious leader who uses his/her position to gain political mileage.

They should show leadership from where they have been given opportunity to serve. This is because our warped values system is an indictment of the religious leadership. It does not imply that because they call on the name of the Lord they would automatically provide better political leadership.

Capitalism vs Socialism

The need to generating new capital using the resource we have is as important as the need to be your brother’s keeper. Oh God of all creation bless this land and nation, justice be our shield and defender, may we dwell in unity peace and liberty, prosperity be found within our borders.

Capitalism and Socialism are like a family they have to live together to make a nation. They are different yet they are one. one always leads at any given time depending on the needs of the family. It is only then that the land and nation are blessed ... and prosperity is found within our borders...

Our national anthem is adequate to show direction on where we have failed and where we need to go in terms of economic solutions. Kenya is a land that has all it needs to leave in peace and liberty.

But that is only possible if the justice is shield and defender of each economic transaction each brother undertakes. It is only then that prosperity can be found within our borders…

While our leaders have used our dependency on land perpetuate their stay in power, those who have had an opportunity to go through education need to balance between the services that are land intensive verses the services that are individual intensive.

This therefore brings to fore the kind of education we provide and its relevance to productive use of the other resources.

Leadership in transitional Kenya now, may requires the ability to build a majority of individuals into economic agents able to optimize productivity outside land intensive economic activities.

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:: Leader's meditation

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