We are past chaotic demonstrations.

There is nothing like peaceful demonstrations in Kenya. 20th march we saw a tag of war between the government and the opposition in an event that left some people with physical injuries and others stranded. The demonstrations resulted to businesses being stalled and people not going to work and by so the scoreboards of the national stock exchange comfortably turned all pointers down and red.

If Kenya lost 2 billion shillings in one day then this is a redundant economic movement for a 3rd world country.The opposition threatened to be doing this every Monday until their demands are met but isn’t this the start of killing an economy that is already in ICU?

If each and every Monday we lose billions of shillings what will be the ultimate output of our demonstrations?

Both the government and opposition should stop thinking of their own interest. They led people into demonstrations which truth be told won’t affect them so much.

After the demonstrations a lot of Kenyans went to bed empty stomach, injured and frustrated can we say the same happened to the leaders?

As Kenyans we should one day sit and rethink our mission and purpose. We complain, we shout, we vandalize and then we start crying later about how the government is not concentrating on infrastructure while we are busy destroying the little we have. What has a bridge done to your leader for you to vandalize it? Innocent and striving business people lost properties worth a lot of money to wrath of protesters whose demands cannot be explained.

The law specifically puts it down according to article 37 of the Kenyan constitution that every person has the right, peaceably and unarmed, to assemble, to demonstrate, to picket, and to present petitions to public authorities. But why go an extra mile to make us poorer and struggle more. Now a person will burn another person car while complaining that the price of “Unga” is so high and then the victim of madness has to stress with “Unga” and now a car.

We have then graduated to now being thugs. We now talk of what happened to Northlands and let’s multiply that to the number of days we are going to demonstrate and then let us think of the total loss that is going to be experienced

What worm has consumed our brain cells?

Before we go back into the streets and be chaotic let’s remember we are the ones who go to bed injured, hungry and cashless.

Look for an alternative means to petition our struggles because we are past chaos.

Lerte Tellah – Samburu