The Beggar Who Arrived in Style …

This was a newspaper headline in US. I want to cry because my people die like fleas whereas their money is being squandered by politicians and their impossible lifestyles. I want to laugh at this insane frivolity. I can’t laugh and cry at the same time. I am not crazy. I may cry later or not. But, most likely, I won’t cry.

I call that lifestyle impossible because the people in question cannot sustain it unless they become corrupt. Money can really corrupt. Most people let money be the boss instead of being the boss over money.

Yeah, there are police officers who are billionaires (of course, not in dollars. This information will suck the life out of someone) in this country. It is one story to explain your gains legally. You got your gains in business and you can explain how? Okay. It is another story to guess. You have no idea how you became rich? Is this a joke?

People die every day. Some die because they went hungry. You prevented that food from reaching them and now you are rich. My friend, curses will make you wish you left that money alone. You are a dead man walking.

But carry on if you do not feel tormented. After all we can’t be all good. No way! I just hope to never meet you in this life or the next!

Here is what happened:

Kenya happens to get struck with hunger issues. To be honest, I am barely affected by this because I live elsewhere away from hunger but I do worry about the hunger struck. Okay, worry is a strong word. It hits me that things are spiraling out of “control”. It is a sad affair. It is also very wrong. People die of hunger in large numbers. I am not asking you to intervene. Only God can do something. Nothing short of a miracle will do. Let the affected people come up with self-sustaining strategies. On this note, Red Cross, I love your “Boma” Idea.

 I tell you, if you can hire a room for a month in Boma, you have paper, my friend.

You cannot help anyone by giving him a fish every day. Instead, teach him how to fish.

If the lake, river or whatever is far, death cannot be very far!

Anyway, apply this tip as per where you are. There are people who take it literally. If you are far from a lake, use your brain. Why are you afraid to think?

To the Red Cross haters, feed those people every day with three meals a day, we see how far you are going to go.

Now, let me say something about hunger and politicians.

Our politicians are greedy. Very greedy. They would rather spend the taxpayer’s money buying jets for themselves than solve starvation problems. Yeah, I wonder what they go to discuss in boardrooms. I am guessing they talk of how to further sink this country into debt! Maybe they just play cards. Who knows?

Of course debt will always be there if a country keeps asking for food! You know, it is a shame for an agricultural country to ask for food. I mean, Israel is a desert and they import soil and plant food. Hell, they export the food too! One word; stunning!

No country in the world can outdo Israel. Even the agricultural states pale in comparison.  

Lord, have mercy on us! Because we simply cannot compare with Israel! These people just amaze! You know, where God is, good things are abundant. Look around you, you can tell.

I know everyone has problems of their own but you can look at some problems and know that the management has issues! The management here is the politicians. They manage this country. Somehow!

Okay, they claim to manage this country but they don’t do squat. If that is the definition of being a sophisticated leader, I do not want to be a politician.

Disclaimer:

Not all politicians are bad but the rest (they are many in number) have created such a bad name for them that it is normal to call politicians, terrible people.

That winds up the disclaimer. Don’t overdo disclaiming!

On matters of death, our politicians have become so immune to it that when people die of hunger, they marvel. They do not understand how anybody can die of hunger! The shock registered on their faces is not because they care. It is because they can’t wrap their brains around what just happened.

I am not saying that dying of hunger is okay. But, I guess people are different. You do not expect me to be someone else. I can’t be. How now? I am merely saying that the hungry need feeding. This is a gaping failure at politicians. But, they have so many failures that this is just a drop in the ocean.  This is not okay.

Here is really what happened:

Once upon a time, the then president of Kenya hired a concord to bring maize/corn to the country. Yeah, you read that right. He hired a concord. Of course, it is always taxpayers’ money that does things like hiring high-end planes.

He tried. I know politicians who can buy Concords that are rarely used by maize/corn. By the way, nobody uses them, ever! They are just sold at auctions because they have no use. Oh! People are still starving. That hasn’t changed.

Thank God, those airplanes are no longer in production.

It surprises me when people complain about the successor’s style. Guess what; maybe you’d do a shoddy job if you were in his shoes. He was frugal to the point of making some countries complain that they are getting squat. I think this was a great move. You have to know who’s for you and who’s just a parasite.

Sometimes, the parasite you thought was a parasite needed you to help out then they’d remember you when they were able. But, sometimes, parasites are just parasites. They need you to survive. Cutting them off is a great idea. You may look bad but so what?

Given the history of this country, parasites are many. One just has to be careful. Any strings and your country will be dead soon enough.

The successor had his faults like anyone else (who said that your leader needs to be perfect?) but up until now, the changes he pioneered are still echoing in this country. He was a Godsend. People needed to be jostled from their self-induced sleep.

Anyway, Concords!

Now my question is: How do you hire a concord to fetch something you begged for? You must be a lunatic. Man, you need to get your priorities in order!

But, given the bad history, the actions will always tell you that this person was a joke!

Never complain if you are called a beggar arriving in style. I mean, how do you beg and then show up in a concord? What is wrong with you?

Anyway, the headline was talking about another time when this former Excellency visited the country he borrowed from, in a concord! Christ!