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KENYA AT 60


Kenya turns 60 today 1st June, perhaps we should say happy 60th anniversary of birthday my beloved country Kenya.
This is the day Kenya attained independence; liberation from West colonial system of governance.
Immediately after the independence and the Kenyan Africans were left to rule themselves. His excellency then President Jomo Kenyatta became the first head of state and he saw that main problems facing country and maybe Africa as a whole was poverty, ignorance and diseases.
Today after 60 years the problems still persists, on top of another emerged  and that is corruption. What a disappointment to the heroes and heroines, we have betrayed our own land .
It is so sad that the country that we fought to control ourselves is defeating us to control and instead we've become our own enemies, where we still fight tribalism, nepotism and sycophancy is the norm, impunity is no longer amputee indeed it is walking.
The ruling government today here in Kenya assumed the throne and ascended on it in the year 2022, the month of September.
Kenyans voted the government with the hope that a new dawn  only to realize that they were burying the little stars that were already there to give them light.
And then what is there for the Kenyans to celebrate, if taxation is being escalated everyday, high cost of living is headache to every populace.
The 'wanjiku' have nothing to celebrate, she wakes up to search for the meal planning to have three meals a day but only gets a meal a day, the same person is the one being taxed while other forms of taxes still storms from the parliament. The parliamentarians who were to be the voices, representatives of the people are the ones averting the will of their people.
How sad is the country at 60,  the country that is no longer child but is equal to be called mzee, the Mzee but a toddler is far much ahead of him.
It is my country, Kenya. It s our country. It is your country. My and your love for Kenya should not be forfeited.
The Government should have the heart of citizens inside it.
The government should be humane enough to everyone.
It is hard but we must sail.


By DON GLEN.

EAGLE'S EYE MEDIA.

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