Of sex boycotts and what not...

I couldn't help it I just had to. When the Group of Kenyan women under the aegis G-10 came calling for urgent reforms nobody expected that their choice of weapon for waging war would be to demand for sex boycott. Granted the idea is novel. But would the situation as per now warrant such a reaction this early in the quest for a total change of the system? Personally an arsenal so vicious should have been kept for later but I do reckon they just couldn't hold on to it.

Please do not get me wrong. I do greatly understand that the reforms as needed should be urgent and be so demanded by any means necessary. It goes without saying that our women have greatly borne the brunt of the atrocities brought about by the insufferable greed of these hyena like politicians. But if you haven't considered the impact of such a call for a sex boycott then you would not understand how effective and potent the call is as an arsenal.

Without going too far to bore with how effective it is as I am already blogging on it, how about we consider why it was just one launched too early in the offensive. The argument lies on perceptions. these women in all due regard constitute some of the most highly educated ladies in the country and opinion leaders at that. But what their passionate call has done is to render their call to be law in the households. it is on this premise that the strategy of G10 lay.
However, in it also lies the poison. Kenya isn't ready. There is a cry but no boiling point. So when our mothers and sisters deny the men their conjugal rights, their protest falls on deaf ears and imperceivable by the men. Inevitably the anger and frustration of these men on what they consider their basic right turns on the women and I would not shut my intuition to the advent of domestic violence. reverse progression if you ask me.

That some youths emerge days later with the dimly creative name Y10 demanding some resignations while blatantly leaning on one side stood to show how much there is need to work on the psyche of the youth. The time for partisan activism died the moment goodwill on the part of the coalition goverment receeded. Down with the Y10 and for crying out loud get smart!

100000000th SOLUTION, THE

Information is undoubtedly power, trust me, I now know that more than ever. If you haven't met my acquaintance then it would be prudent to let you know that I started pursuing a law degree mid this year and am wowed each time the study of law presents a new element concerning governance, the constitution and much more.
Am now convinced more than ever that the solution to our current problems lies not in bulky strategic documents and dispensations of god knows what.

A change in the moral, social and cultural perceptions (simply put for me nowadays..Kukuza utu) and providing the much needed access to information are the two ways that for me provide a solution to our problems.

Do not let the ease of the phrase trivialise the meaning for you. Access to information not only involves making the said information available but also implanting its importance to the people whether they asked for it or not. It boils down to duty, to your country and fellow man

If you are reading this as a young Kenyan and do have access to information that will raise information for the masses share it out. If you are a youth seeking to make a change do not yap about out of sheer ignorance....seek for information...read.
And when you have the information synthesis it and share it. We are rightly called the information sharing generation by taking on that trait we may eventually be the force of change in this nation

Caucus and champion your MP on the Freedom of Information Bill that it may be passed into law.

Well....

I've been thinking...rapidity.. thats what we have in our Kenyan society.....of thought...of circumstances..of life of political parties but never of keeping appointments. of death maybe.
Why talk of rapidity...its because of the nature in which we rapidly let go of what we as Kenyans within a particular space of time collectively consider to be ideals....what happened to constitutional reform.....youth representation, participation, empowerment? And dont rapidly elucidate your response by castigating our political class...we are even more to blame than anybody else......think of how rapidly the youth ministry, the fund and lofty ideals of representation we built and rapidly cast into the sea of rapid forgetfulness. Well..... just a thought!