We lost Dennis Simiyu Muyila last night to heartless hitmen. The world does not want good people like him, only miscreants and thugs will survive.
Unpacking the invisible knapsack of privilege in corruption in Kenya
The on-going investigations and arrests in Kenya in regard to corruption has raised admiration and consternation in equal measures around the country. The amounts of money mentioned in the dealings have broken the County’s “best record” of looting. However, given these are by no means the first, nor will they be the last cases of corruption in high places, is it not time to put aside the normal political rhetoric and engage in a no-nonsense discourse on what every Kenyan over the age of thirty knows: The existence of ‘unearned’ opportunities or wealth which is an indictment on our value system that it warrants a disbelief in an idea foundational to the Kenya’s future and the Independence dreams which were shattered by the opportunism? I am proposing a discourse that is poised to propel an ideological movement well beyond the Parliament, the courts, police cells, the ivory tower and into political discourse, pop culture commentary, and workplace seminars. Discussing corru...
RIP Sims.....am still coming to terms with your passing on.....
ReplyDeleteRIP Sims.....am still coming to terms with your passing on.....
ReplyDeleteHe was agood friend of mine. RIP
ReplyDeleteVery heartless !! How can people be so EVIL??? Killing someone when the whole family is watching !!!
ReplyDelete1 Corithians 15:19 "If have hope in Christ in this life only, then we are to be pitied above all men" .....Heaven in indeed home !!!
ReplyDeleteSo sad! We hope these thugs and the man behind it is caught. What person is so heartless and cruel to want to take someone else's life! May God give the family strength during this trying times. Dennis, my friend and village mate, RIP.
ReplyDeleteDear Friends,
ReplyDeleteIt was indeed sad for Kenya as we lost two leaders in a plane crash on June 10. The deaths of Prof. George Saitoti and his assistant Orwa Ojode, two pilots and their bodyguards, sadly coincided with the fourth anniversary of the deaths of roads Minister Kipkalya Kones and Lorna Laboso, who also died in a chopper crash.
As Christians we need to pray for the country, especially now that we are approaching the General Election. We pray that the elections will be peaceful. In the June Update, we try highlighting the plight of squatters. They are a forgotten lot, even as the government settles the IDPs. Land still remains a focal point in Kenya; it was the basis upon which the struggle for independence was waged. Sadly though, many Kenyans remain landless despite the sacrifices made by their fathers and forefathers.