BLOODSHED

The level with which people in Kenya so freely and easily take each others lives is alarming.

My condolence goes to the families of those who have lost their lives in the recent wave of terror. If its not the Mungiki its the bomb blast. The source of the Mungiki mayhem though in my opinion is poor governance right from independece. The succesie governments have failed to address the issue of unequitable distribution of resources. It is hard to go to bed hungry when your next door neighbour is feeding on roast meat and driving a state of the art Merc. Talk of giving mungiki adherents a means of sustainance is both reckless and dangerous. What would happen if similar vigilante groups spring up all over the country with the hope of being treated the same in the end. It is thus imperative that policies like free education and access to basic social services be instituted. These will go a long way in mitigating the level of crime we are seeing. Its not a new phenomenon. South Africa despite its great economic position has one of the highest crime rates on the planet since most of the wealth in that country is in the hands of a few wealthy individuals. In Kenya though the turn towards crime families like the Italian and Russian Mafia or the Hong Kong Yakuza is an even more scary prospect. Its time that each person took action and cared about people around them.