The members of the Facebook group "Tana River County Kenya" have seen unpleasant posts
directed against the governor and his counterparts….and despite the preponderance of despicability,
not all are a vile. As much as I castigate the insults fashioned against the
government officials of Tana River County, I congratulate positive or otherwise
constructive criticism fashioned against these leaders in equal measure.
I
will not waste my energy asking what the governor and his counterparts have
done in terms of development for this county so far, because it is an
undisputed fact that nothing much has been done. Since the Governor assumed
power in 2013 we have not seen any commendable developments in the county. We
did not have to wait for the World Bank report for us to know that our leaders
have failed us, no, we have seen for ourselves.
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| H.E. Amb. Hussein Dado – Governor County Government of Tana River |
The
County Government of Tana River is fashioned on omnipotent and imperious
executive, sycophantic county assembly, timid opposition and subjugated people.
These tyrannical regimes are premised on the four pillars of endemic
corruption, lamentable incompetence, gross violation of human rights and
negative ethnicity. Yet this problem of incompetence and failure to perform to
the people’s expectations is vile, nauseating and perilous. Resultantly, this has triggered the long
quest by the people for positive change in the county.
This
impotence in leadership has resulted in loss of public faith and confidence.
Regardless, we the people of Tana River County are still hopeful that positive
change will be realized in Tana River County in the near future. We are always
praying and hoping for better days. But every day we crawl out of bed into reality
that our government has not done much… and then worries start to add on…did we
vote in the wrong leaders? Regrets are quickly replaced with fear, fear of the
unknown.
Did
we elect the wrong leaders or did we elect the right leaders who have
deliberately failed, ignored and/or refused to deliver to the people’s
expectations? Do we have a chance to redeem ourselves? Phalms 30:5(b) provides
and I quote verbatim “Weeping may tarry all night, but joy comes in the
morning” Yes, we keep falling but never defeated to rise again, come 2017 come,
we the people shall elect performers and not people who have been vomiting on
our shoes by sustaining the eating culture. The main duty of elected leaders is
representation…we voted them in to represent the people and not their
stomachs!!!
The executive arm of the government is composed
of non-performers, egotistical, callous and incompetent leaders. However, the
leaders of Tana River have two years to redeem their legacy. In the meantime,
the people of Tana should remember that some of the people who vie for elective
posts are good, some are bad and some are truly dreadful. Choose wisely come
2017…not on the basis of gender, or religion or tribe but on the basis of
capabilities. I digress!!!
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Corinthians 4: 17 “for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an
eternal joy that far outweighs them all”
Freedom
is coming tomorrow.
