MISSION STATEMENT:
A new political formation called the “Kenya Red Alliance (KRA)” has been set up by a group of Kenyans at home and in Diaspora to address the growing and critical question of the “Kenyan revolution” which KRA initiative takers believe, is the only way to rescue the country from deep political, economic and social crisis after more than 45 years of dictatorship and authoritarianism by three subsequent regimes.
Today, the rapidly deteriorating situation in Kenya has led to starvation of millions of citizens, total collapse of social infrastructure, mass poverty, spiraling crime especially among the youth, personal insecurity, mass unemployment, looting of the economy by political gangsters, extra-judicial executions of innocent civilians by organized agents of State terror, banning of books and a host of catastrophic failures that are increasingly leading to the categorization of Kenya by the International community as a “failed State”.
The formation of KRA comes after six months of meticulous deliberations by “like-minded” Kenyans at home and in Diaspora who believe that fourty five years of experimentation with a deformed capitalist system of government headed by wealth grabbers is not working for the people of Kenya but serving the collective interests of a tiny class of thieves and robbers. This class continues to use the system to steal wealth produced by toiling workers and peasants and, in the process, leaving the suffering masses without the most basic of human necessities. Once again, a powerful smell of revolution is in the air.
While KRA initiative takers agree with millions of Kenyans who believe that politicians have let down workers, peasants, students and the army of unemployed youth, their position is that the rotten political system called capitalism that enables politicians to steal tax Payers’ money through illegal salary increments of MPs, institutionalized corruption, tax evasion by the rich, lavish lifestyles for the ruling class as Kenyans starve and an entrenched policy of external dependencies and internal exploitation by domestic and International wealth grabbers is directly responsible for the misery millions of Kenyans have and continue to undergo with devastating consequences.
KRA’s initiative takers believe that the system of capitalism has failed globally and that it will never work in Kenya because this rotten system (that pits the rich against the poor) has outlived its usefulness thereby making it incapable of moving society forward. Under the circumstances, it is the view of KRA initiative takers that the system needs to be abolished while corrupt and opportunistic politicians presiding over it should be forced out of power by a revolutionary movement or Party through available democratic channels.
The defeat of collaborators running the corrupt government on behalf of themselves will pave the way for a new beginning by a new generation of leaders and thinkers armed with a workable political alternative that can effectively end mass poverty, perpetual starvation, wanton deprivation, looting of resources and untold human suffering of millions of Kenyans.
KRA’s initiative takers believe that reclaiming the country will not be possible without a clear understanding of both the main issues that needs to be addressed and the political tasks ahead of KRA as a serious revolutionary outfit. While the core issue is to defeat the system, the fundamental objective is to erect a just and democratic government that will ensure equitable distribution of the country’s vast resources among the people of Kenya who are seeking to address the crisis of leadership in the country.
From the standpoint of KRA, there is no solution to the stalemate apart from revolution and the big questions on KRA’s table includes a general agreement about the definition of revolution within the Kenyan context, the kind of revolution needed in our country at this point in time, the immediate agenda of this revolution, how it should be organized and the people who are best equipped to lead the struggle for genuine political change, economic transformation and social justice in Kenya. KRA’s initiative takers believe that there can never be “Business as usual” as long as there are Kenyans going without food, clothing and shelter.
It is the view of KRA that Kenya is ripe for revolution but that there is currently no Movement or Party armed with the right ideas, strategies and tactics to lead the revolutionary struggle as the masses of the people cry for revolutionary change to defeat an entrenched class of looters who have been facing no serious or organized challenge as they run the country like a huge business empire where they are answerable to nobody but themselves.
Today, millions of Kenyans are convinced that the country is sinking but, unfortunately, there is a lot of hopelessness about what needs to be done. Although there is talk of reform from the opportunist wing of the democratic Movement led by sections of the wealthy ruling class and segments of the civil society, there is no indication that these reforms will ever put food on the table for the starving Kenyans, create jobs for idle youth, avail medicine in hospitals or create shelter for millions of homeless citizens in our country.
KRA believes that the political vacuum that exists in Kenya will never be filled without the element of revolution coming into play and it is because of this belief that KRA has been formed. The emergence of the Alliance is the product of convergence of individuals, groups and organizations which have, in the past, put forward a revolutionary agenda for Kenya but whose initiatives have been hampered by lack of sufficient revolutionary consciousness among the oppressed and subjugated masses in Kenya.
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First comes the misery, the gist for anything that can be turned to profit, then a trailer load full of petroleum and other inflammables overturns and citizens rush to guzzle the spillage, in the midst of harnessing the sudden fountain of riches, a follie as Latin would call them lights a cigarette and the whole mass is engulfed in fire. The endemic poverty, greed or sheer exhilaration that drove them to the scene simply turns into a mind boggling theatre of carnage and unfathomable loss. The village wails in disgust, the government promises action and mass graves are dug in a mass sendoff. Two weeks later, the same circumstance is replayed in another village not far off from the previous carnage and the same results are vividly repeated. Such is the curse of Africa, of Kenya, of our citizenry, our institutions, and our very way of life.
Our nation is best summed up in the words of Abraham Lincoln, that “we live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read”. Such is the anomaly of our nation. How does a President or Prime Minister pride himself as a leader of a people that live atop pipelines, scavange for food and die indiscriminately of hunger in a nation of unending arable land. How do you pride yourself to be the leader of a people that drink ethanol and petroleum mixed while you dine on imported wine and French cuisine complete with dessert and a salad in a half hearted attempt to put a lid on your blossoming bellies thanks to brown beer while your masses juggle babies in unending treks in search of food and shelter .How can a leader confidently trod the halls of the United Nations and sleep in five star hotels while your people are burning in a lake of fire ?
The events of Lunga lunga that consumed over one hundred Kenyans in a flowing valley of death depict a nation in tatters. A government unwilling to devote resources to relocate the people and evict them from a disaster that has been looming for decades for political reasons as they remain a voting bloc come election time. A people unable to unchain themselves from the vestiges of debilitating poverty thanks to policies implemented by the government that creates a class of haves and have-nots.A people left to their own whims to light charcoal fires, burn garbage, smoke cigarettes atop a thundering pipeline of oil and petroleum in a dance of death . The government quickly denied responsibility and heaped blame on the people for trying to siphon fuel from the pipeline. Just wonder aloud for a moment, were the pipeline meandering through Runda and Muthaiga and started leaking, would its residents have rushed with jerry cans and sufurias to harvest of the manna? It’s a question of economics, of stature in society, of economic class. Would their houses even have been constructed atop a pipeline? Did these people willingly live atop the pipeline in some form of adrenaline rush or junkies or machismo? These were families trying to raise their children and earn a living in the most “decent” of places they could afford, they were hard working men and women living under one of the most corrupt regimes in the world, citizens squeezed under a bloated government that nigh delivers services, under a leadership reminiscent of nursery school Kati plays in the likes of the puerile mike sonko and his counterparts in Nairobi.
My solemn prayers go to the victims and their families in the days, weeks, months and years to come. I pray that your respite will come in electing a leader and a government that don’t want to be the leader of a people that live atop pipelines and let you raise pigs in urban settings reminiscent of a scene from the house of prairie. In the words of Richard Bach “there’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.Take heart my fellow countrymen but above all take charge.
It suddens me and it shutters my dreams when I see a president put on a millitary attire actually it the second time he’s putting on the outfit. This is the biggining of tyrany he’s copyng the likes of mseveni alrather he is trying to woe the millitary its so sad
I like the ideology though I find the part of ethnicity wrongly placed on the registration form if we believe in equity.