Eventually, the high cost of living in Kenya has began to force the victims into the streets to demand that the government take action to address the crisis. Today, 10 million Kenyans are facing starvation while over 20 million others are increasingly finding it difficult to put food on the table.
Millions of youths have no jobs while millions of workers are living on starvation wages that cannot now enable them to live from hand to mouth. The country is slowly becoming one big prison where millions are threatened with death because there is no food to eat. In the meantime, a few thieves in control of the wealth of the country are enjoying life as if Kenya is a small heaven on earth. They collaborate with their Western allies to ensure that the Kenyan masses are kept ignorant, deprived, begging and perpetually in a state of want.
Between January and April this year, the cost of 400gms of bread rose from Ksh 35 to Ksh 40 (14% increase) while a 2kg packet of maize floor, the staple food, rose from Ksh 75 to Ksh 93 (24% increase). During the same period, the price of a 2kg packet of cooking oil shot up from Ksh 385 to Ksh 425 (10% increase) while a 500ml milk pack rose to Ksh 30, up from Ksh 25 (20% increase). Likewise, 10 gms of tea leaves is now more expensive after prices rose from Ksh 30 to Ksh 40 (33% increase) while the price of a 2kg pack of rice also rose from Ksh 310 to Ksh 340 (10% increase). A 2 kg pack of wheat-floor rose from Ksh 90 to Ksh 135 (38% increase). These price increases are unprecedented and causing argony to millions of Kenyans across the country.
The uncontrollable spiral of food prices in Kenya is not new. What is new is that poor Kenyan workers and millions of unemployed youths who can no longer put food on the table are beginning to wake up to the fact that something is seriously wrong with the institution called government. Demonstrations organized by consumer organizations and Civil Society groups have been witnessed across the country. The Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU) has warned that the government must increase the minimum wage or face unspecified consequences. Social movements like Bunge la Mwananchi have teamed up with youth groups to demand government intervention to save Kenyans from starving to death.
To show that it is addressing the crisis, the government moved to implement cosmetic measures to try and appease the starving millions in Kenya. Through Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, the government announced that it would reduce kerosene and diesel taxes by 20 and 30 percent respectively but this move failed to reduce public rage. As an extra measure, Raila Odinga, the Prime Minister, announced that the government would abolish taxes for fuel and kerosene to force prices down so that food can become affordable. However, there is one important equation in the food crisis that millions of Kenyans are not being told.
The high cost of fuel, which is being blamed for rising prices of food, transport and other commodities is just the tip of the iceberg. Fuel prices are being increased by agents of greedy capitalists seeking to enrich themselves by ruthlessly exploiting poor Kenyans. What Kenyans are not being told is that the government is part of the conspiracy to ensure that the wealth grabbers will continue stealing from the poor even in the face of cosmetic changes which have so far had no impact in food pricing.
No solution on a capitalist basis
Raila Odinga stated clearly that “This is a liberalised economy and we would want the market to be the main determinant of prices”. In simpler terms, Raila was saying that Kenya has a capitalist economic system of government and that the situation is unlikely to change in the near future because the government belongs to a group of wealth grabbers. It is the greed of the capitalist class that drives their members to engage in corruption. The haphazard price increases that benefit the rich are part of this corruption and the victims are the millions of poor Kenyans.
During demonstrations to protest against high food prices, there was not a single political party (represented in Parliament) that joined the demonstrators to show solidarity. Both ODM and PNU did not try to take advantage of the demos to increase their political profiles by being seen to be on the side of the poor. Why?
Because these parties are the main agents of capitalism at the ruling class level and joining the protesters could have been the same as drinking poison to commit political suicide. When the six Ocampo criminals returned from The Hague earlier this month, they were met by a “mammoth crowd” at the airport before they proceeded to Uhuru park to engage in verbal political diarrhea. Where was Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto when their supporters were protesting against high food prices? The answer is that they made tactical retreats because the demonstrations pitted the rich against the poor. Just like members of the ruling class, both Ruto and Uhuru have nothing in common with the poor who are unable to afford unga.
Under the system of capitalism, the government has no say in prices of essential consumer commodities because under the system, the market dictates. Unfortunately, there is no solution to the high food prices under the system. What Kenyans will continue to witness are cosmetic changes aimed at soothing public anger while the status quo remains.
Once Kenyans understand this arrangement, they will begin to look elsewhere. The only known option to sort out the crisis is revolution, not just to remove the thieving capitalist class from power but to change the system of government so that the State can take control of prices of key consumer commodities without being held hostage by the wealth grabbers. There is no short cut.
The reason why a few rich thieves have managed to take control of the wealth of millions of Kenyans is because they have control of the State machine which is at their disposal. Although many Kenyans believe that the country has a government in place, there is no government. If you have no food to eat, no clothing, no access to medical care or you have no shelter, then you are deceiving yourself when you think that you have a government. What the country has is a Committee of wealth grabbers calling itself government and whose members are accountable to nobody but themselves.
These are realities that Kenyans will have to accept before they can begin to understand or examine the politics of revolutionary change. Any Kenyan still looking at the so called leaders expecting that when one of them comes to power, he/she will change the situation is politically unconscious. The revolution will have to be organized from below and the current ruling class will have no role to play in this revolution because this ruling class owns the system that needs to be overturned so that a new beginning can be set in motion.
Okoth Osewe
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UHURU KENYATTA IS USING KWEKWE TO FINISH(KILL) OCAMPOS WITNESS (MUNGIKI WHO WERE USED BY UHURU TO KILL LUOS& KALEN JINS ARE BEING KILLED & BODIES SET ON ACID!!
3 men killed, bodies burnt with acid
BY SIMON NDONG’A
Updated : 8 hours and 42 minutes ago
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KISERIAN, Kenya, Apr 28 – Three people were on Thursday found murdered and their bodies burnt with acid on the Kiserian-Magadi road, on the outskirts of Nairobi.
Witnesses told police the bodies were discovered sprawled on the roadside 20 kilometres from Kiserian.
Police officers who visited the scene said two of the men had bullet wounds in the head while another was hacked to death.
“We have looked at the bodies, it appears they were killed and acid poured on their bodies. We have not been able to establish circumstances under which they were killed,” area divisional Police chief Farah Mohammed said.
Mr Mohammed said one of the bodies had been scorched with acid on the private parts while another was badly burnt on the chest.
“It is a mystery which will need to be thoroughly investigated. For now detectives are still gathering any clues to help in the investigation,” he told Capital News at the scene.
Police estimate that the men were aged between 18 and 25 years.
“We cannot tell whether they are Kenyans or not but I do not want to pre-empt any investigations. We do not know what really happened and until we are over with the investigations we should not speculate over what happened,” he said.
Mr Mohammed told Capital News they were also seeking to establish if the men were killed at the scene or were just dumped on the roadside.
“We are also interested to know if they come from this area. So far, no one has been able to identify them,” he added.
“We do not know really what happened unless we carry out the investigation and post-mortems… maybe we will be able to know their identity. In addition, we will be subjecting them to fingerprinting so that we get to know who they are.”
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This Unga Revolutionary group will be wiped like>Here>
My concern stems from the fact that the witness protection system in Kenya is wanting. Where ever witnesses are “stored” they stand exposed now that the defense and prosecution of the two Kenyan cases at the ICC began discussions on the disclosure of evidence against the so-called Ocampo-6.
Most of the O-6 are wealthy people with immense resources and powerful networks. They stand to loose everything should the charges against them be confirmed. That is their reputation, their massive investments, political aspirations, in exchange for long term jail sentences if not life and seizure of their assets to pay off PEV. They actually stand to benefit should the witnesses lined up against them by the ICC Prosecutor vanish or fail to show up.
Suppose any one of the O-6 is linked to witness disappearance, what greater penalty is there over and above the charges against them at the ICC?
So when stories similar to those of the disappearance of former Foreign Affairs Minister Robert Ouko or JM Kariuki start surfacing in the media, its raises eyebrows?
Here is what I am talking about,
Shock of bodies on Magadi road
By FRED MUKINDA (fmukinda@ke.nationmedia.com)
Posted Thursday, April 28 2011 at 08:15
Bodies of four people have been dumped at Icross junction on Magadi road in the outskirts of Nairobi.
Police say the four may have been killed elsewhere before their bodies were moved to the junction and acid poured on them.
While Kibaki and other Kikuyu elite belch from eating high quality food bought by tax-free money from poor Kenyans, the truth is that the Kikuyu community is gaining almost nothing. I am happy that Muigai wa Njoroge and group do sing the reality facing many Kenyans. To hell with the Kikuyu elite who have been exploiting the country since Independence with Jomo Kenyatta having been the CHIEF THIEF. His son Uhuru is now behaving like him running around arrogantly thinking no other Kikuyu but him ,is fit to lead Kenya. This deeply SUCKS!!!
UNGA, Muigai wa Njoroge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O1CDi_O2y8
Muigai wa njoroge No 9. new political release
One billion people in the world live in impoverished nations without safe drinking water. The markets in their slums sell sour milk, tainted chicken and spoiled meat. They are dying of starvation. They wear worn-out shoes and ragged clothes, and travel extraordinary distances for food, water and employment. Only one percent of them ever go to college, and most can’t even sign their own names.
Many have AIDS or malaria, and the number of orphans is ever increasing. They endure civil war, evil dictators, an active human slave trade and refugee camps. Their daily suffering is more than many in American society can even comprehend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duJUvvXvN40&feature=related
Rich people getting richer and poor people poorer. People are starving to death but nobody cares.
Help to change this world of Evil full with greed and hypocrisy
Do anything to help!
Osewe you are so right about capitalism that has no sympathy but requires that the greediest survives. It is quite the reason behind the glaring poverty in many developing countries.
It’s interesting that some smart Westerners speak out that they are the reason behind global poverty through their control of financial markets and trade patterns that don’t favor the poor. Washington, through the World Bank and the IMF, gains billions of dollars from the poor through the so-called poverty alleviation programs. From each dollar, they gain five more.
Anyway, we must keep on talking and hope that our greedy ruling elite in Kenya will wake up. Can Kenya do an Arab sort of rebellion? Below is an explanation behind a critically acclaimed film titled “The End of Poverty?” The full movie link is below it.
The feature-length documentary The End of Poverty? won critical acclaim at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and is narrated by actor Martin Sheen. It is a daring, thought-provoking and very timely documentary by filmmaker Philippe Diaz. The film takes a hard look at world poverty and challenges capitalism and the American way. In a world of plenty, why are so many families around the planet still living in abject poverty? Looking beyond the popular “solutions” for poverty, The End of Poverty? asks if the true causes of poverty today stem from a deliberate orchestration of resource misallocation started in colonial times.
It is painful to watch this clip with Mama Ngina (Uhuru Kenyatta’s mother), avoiding the question of whether she would think of donating part of her vast pieces of land to the IDPs. This is a lady who knows her late husband Jomo the Thief was the reason why so many Kikuyus were thrown out of Central province into Rift Valley and eventually evicted and thrown into tents by the Kalenjin warriors in 2008.
Shocking reaction from Mama Ngina. Damn you Woman!! Evil this is……shetani!! Does money permanently erase any sense of compassion in these people? Thank god the journalist gave us this moment to really get an insight into the mentality of these thieves. To make it worse it’s her own people suffering- the Kikuyu. Seriously!!!!!!!!!! As Osewe said, Kenya needs a revolution a country of almost 40million people…it’s only a matter of time……..
Mama Ngina Children’s home is now being misused by some greedy people instead of using it to help poor and destitute children. No accountability as usual and this is also a mark of the Kikuyu Mfia roberry that renders children landless because their parents homes are taken by force.
Witness Of Ocampo Mass-murdered !Watch this Video>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhc0o1Vr5MY&NR=1
Self-interest is the life-blood of pure capitalism sir, so where’s the beef?
http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446696/1155734/-/view/asBlogPost/-/jlyrwxz/-/index.html
Earlier KTN’s Beatrice Marshall sought the views of Prime Minister Raila Odinga on the state of the economy, and began by asking him why the government seems unable to protect the public from rising costs of basic commodities.
http://www.ktnkenya.tv/new/?page_id=1&id=2000036193