It is a good morning to remind Luo Leaders and particularly the elected class that the Luo community is uninterested in carrying the yoke of opposition politics.
It means all Luo leaders must work more relentlessly to ensure the Luo are out of all spaces where any little opposition activity is taking place.
When Chamberlain visited Hitler to sign a pre-WWII peace treaty, both men knew there would be war. One man was ready, the other, not much; and so, he bide his time.
Chamberlain never got to sign the British to WWII but he did ensure in the peace he signed with Hitler, the British could use the ‘breathing space’ created to ram up its military hardware to match Nazi firepower; so that the British military which his successor — Prime Minister Winston Churchill — took to war against Nazi Germany was a much prepared force, unwilling to surrender.
We are in a period of prolonged peace. We insist that this period is used to build our roads and ports and piers and schools and hospitals and universities and to improve rice growing, cane growing, fish farming, etc.
That we use this period to entrench.
If our leaders truly claim to represent the Luo society which elected them, then they should know that the Luo society has detached itself from the general welfare of the country, and only wish to live in peace and to pursue its own prosperity which stagnated in the many years the war raged.
We do not seek to impose our values on any community. We do not wish to dominate any group. We are in competition with no one and importantly, we hate no group. We are the community that stretches its hand of friendship to forge genuine alliance for the prosperity of all.
If everyone is pursuing a united future where prosperity is shared and no region or community is left behind, such efforts will receive ready hands. But if there are attempts to return the country to the tribalism and crass economic discrimination of the past, such futile efforts will equally receive rock solid opposition by a group that fights hardest and longest for the great ideals of Kenya: equality, equity and non-discrimination.
No one above, no one below.
