@StateHouseKenya@KenyaGovernors
Dear Mr. President.
I believe if you never read George Orwell's allegorical novella the ''Animal Farm'' first published in 1945. You acquainted with''All animals being equal, with some animals,are more equal than others? standardmedia.co.ke/national/artic…
This allegorical novella has enough characters in it, that depict today's Kenya, your leadership, it's unfairness's & Utopia if you may. Two main characters Napoleon & his counter part Snowball, for instance depicts the handshake properly. But that is a story for another day.
What is of interest, is the adage from it, ''All animals being equal, & some being more equal than others''. An the case in point, that of Wanjiku lives & their importance to your Administration.
Do Wanjiku Lives Matter ?
It took 40 minutes to save the life of Jubilee secretary general Raphael Tuju, following his accident on 12th February 2021, along Nrb-Nku highway. Where no stone was left unturned to ensure this important person's life is saved. Kudos for everyone involved.
However, what does that say of your Administration's segregative response & or selective amnesia in a country where, road carnage is such an immense Achilles heel?
Lest we forget, Wanjikus aka taxpayers in this case, who indirectly footed the bill for the 40 minutes response, triage & helicopter ride. Lose their lives daily, especially from post accident inadequate response, & or the often lack of it.
Back to Animal Farm, Tuju is your Squealer, the one who spreads Napoleon’s (& am not saying you are Napoleon, you are more like Snowball), propaganda among the other animals. Justifies the monopolization of resources & spreads false statistics pointing to the farm’s success.
In case you may wonder @AtwoliDza is the tame raven who spreads stories of Sugar-candy mountain, the paradise to which animals supposedly go when they die.@David_Murathe_ is Old Major. The prize-winning boar with a vision of a socialist utopia. Who Wanjiku is, jijazie mwenyewe.
Back to Wanjiku & Road Traffic Accidents-RTA's. If it can take your Govt 40 minutes to save an important life, shouldn't at least take much lesser to save the boss, who is over taxed left, right & centre, to ensure there is a helicopter on the ready to save the servant ?
Mine is obviously a deluded lone voice in the wilderness here. However, doesn't the taxpayer on Kibwezi, Nyeri, Salgaa, Garissa, Kisumu, Kakamega, Moyale, Mpeketoni or Lokitaung deserve the same treatment as Tuju, albeit the not being a Secretary General of Tano Terror ?
Yes it is impossible to have helicopters spread all over black spots. So let's settle for less, is it that impossible to have trained EMT's or First Responders & equipped ambulances stationed in most of our along the highways towns. Especially now that devolution is in play?
Is it impossible also to have Community Emergency Response Teams-CERT's. Trained & located in towns on, our major accident prone towns like Salgaa, Makindu, Mtito Andei, Makutano Sagana, Ruiru, Maseno, Voi, or Awasi etc ?
If you read George Orwell's Animal Farm, you definitely remember Squealer. The pig who spread Napoleon’s propaganda among the other animals. Justified the pigs’ monopolization of resources & spreads false statistics pointing to the farm’s success. kenyans.co.ke/news/65201-tuj…
Squealer, was an exemplary sycophantic mouth piece. A good example thus, of the many ways in which those in power, often use rhetoric & language to twist the truth. To gain, maintain social & political control.
A silver-tongued pig, who always abused language to justify Napoleon’s actions & policies to the proletariat by whatever means seem necessary.
By radically simplifying language—as when he taught the sheep to bleat “Four legs good, two legs better!”—limiting the terms of debate.
Today's political science too often inculcates a dispassionate view of politics among scholars. Somewhere in the "literature reviews," mathematical models, "event counts," & language of "transaction costs" are buried issues and incidents that have real impacts on people's lives.
1980-to 2002, restrictions on speech & association in Kenya chilled discussion of policy & institutional development. Kenyans, civil servants included became noticeably less willing to take decisions, for fear of disapproval, & Govt business in some ministries slowed markedly.
Politics was not fit material for discussion in public places because of the proliferation of security agents in bars, matatus, public transport, clubs, & offices. Kenya had become a Gestapo country. Speaking anything that could be construed as Anti-Establishment was dangerous.
@AfricanUpdates That aviation is an important fully unexploited contributor to economic growth & development within Africa. Can open & connect markets, facilitating trade & enabling linkage into global supply chains. Is in no doubt, but our protectionist Govts & myopic thinking?
Whereas, enhancing air connectivity can help raise productivity, by encouraging investment & innovation; improving business operations & efficiency. The protectionism current is a bane, many continue to ignore.
Air transport is indispensable for tourism for example, where convenient air service facilitates the arrival of larger numbers of tourists to a region or country. But our stagnated thinking, poor leadership & acumen lack especially where changes can tilt the status quo ?
Flood havoc is a repeat offender, for the last 57 years & counting. How come we have never undertaken capability assessment of flood emergency planning & preparedness in Kenya. And based on the outputs of such, built a National Capability Framework ?
If it is not Budalangi, it is some place in Nyanza, Tana River, Narok, or even Nairobi a supposed capital city & seat of the National Government.Where as we speak, all that is lacking, in the likes of South C are whales, sharks & dolphins. As residential estates become submerged.
Facilitation. The efficient management of the necessary control process, with the objective of expediting the clearance of persons or goods & preventing unnecessary operational delays. Which can be handled by the existing NCASC, Is another Committee necessary?
It goes without saying that, ours is a circus. If at all you cared to validate the NCASP effectiveness(Annex 17 Standards 3.4.4 to 3.4.7), Thro a working NCASC, that is, would we need a component of its work replicated through a whole NATFC, essentially made of the same people?
The fire part is not just a wake up call, but a challenge to Kenya as regards NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS & Actions Needed to Address Gaps in the Nation’s Emergency Management Capabilities. But is any of you in the leadership positions at the least bit concerned ?
@NDOCKenya It's current operational status aside is supposed to have a National Prep'dness System to help assess the nation’s emergency management capabilities in preparing for disasters &, in part, to help prioritize sectoral cross cutting Disaster Mgmt leadership, but does it?