Let's share the words of the old and I hope you all internalize what he said.

At Madiany in Bondo on 1st June 2005, the late Ramogi Achieng Oneko the last of the kapenguria six was holding a pen and a paper.

This is what he wrote.
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"We knew, and it is true even today, that Kenyans are one people who have the same common human needs; that Kenyans are practically kept apart by geography but have never meaningfully disagreed....
.... That many Kenyans have never actually met but have heard of each other; do not care what the other actually look like, do not drink water of the same river or eat daily the other's staple diet...
...yet, they have consistently been told by some political leaders, directly or indirectly, that the other is the enemy, cannot be trusted and should be kept out of political power."
Such powerful words. This were the words of Ramogi Achieng Oneko, as he wrote a foreword to one of the Kenyan political autobiography;- "The price of freedom" by Wanyiri Kihoro. Now,let's all look at what he said & what he meant & how you as a voter, you've been a fool for long.
Oneko,died on 9th june 2007 before witnessing the 2007 PEV. 14 years later after his death the Kenyan people are divided once again, we have never met but our leaders have met and have been meeting on our behalf to discuss on who becomes an enemy every electioneering period.
In 2007, our leaders like Raila Odinga, Musalia Mudavadi, Joe Nyaga, William Ruto and Najib Balala among others, had met on behalf of their tribes, and they made their people believe that Kikuyus were enemies and couldn't be trusted with power. 41 against 1 was born.
On the other side, KANU led by Uhuru Kenyatta, PNU led by Mwai Kibaki and the likes of Martha Karua, they had met on behalf of Kikuyu people and they made them believe that Luos are their enemies and couldn't be trusted with power.
In 2013, William Ruto left ODM and joined Uhuru Kenyatta in an alliance that formed the govt. And all of a sudden, the two nilotic groups in Luos and Kalenjins became enemies.Their hatred for each other was more evident in social media streets in 2016-2017. Again,our leaders won.
Those two recent examples, can give you a glimpse of how our leaders since the days of Jomo Kenyatta and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, have always met in boardrooms to choose for us our new Political enemies going to each elections.
Who has been the fool throughout this arrangement? It's you as a Kenyan. You have given someone the mandate to choose who becomes a friend and who becomes an enemy to you. If they say kill Luo and spare Kikuyu, you will do it. If they say kill Giriama and spare Luo, you will obey
We are now in 2021, and by mid year, our leaders will have met. They will have formed the next alliances that will make them clinch power, the alliances are not about you, they are about them. Then the alliance will identify their next enemy.
And in your wisdom or lack of the same, you will take the new friends and hate the new enemies with passion. You will make your thumb to be the most active part of your body, as you try to insult and degrade tribe X which has now become your new enemies.
Your thumb will be the highest defender of the newly found friends, in fact, you will praise their tribal leader and claim how clean he is despite the fact one year ago, you claimed he was the most corrupt. Your finger will sanitize your new friends & tarnish your new enemies.
Because, you are just a fool, a tool to be used when they want to use you, then after elections, we shall all come back to suffer together. A few will defend the mistakes they did in the ballot, but we shall suffer together as the fools we have always been. Good day kenyans.
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