Only Politics

With Kenya’s post-election violence still underway, it is a saddening reality that families are being broken due to several abductions, burning of houses and other human rights violations. It seems Kenya remains in a desperate situation and its government hopeless in respondiing to the needs of the people. What’s making things worse, many officials are selfishly focused more on forming a coalition government and seemingly setting aside the welfare of the thousands of homeless Kenyans wandering in the dark, unsanitary camps in the region. There is nothing wrong of planning things out in the Cabinet; but make sure the pressing problems of the displaced Kenyans are given much attention. The plan of creating 40 ministries in the Kenyan government will certainly put budget to question of whether this ambitious forecast can sustain the basic needs of the refugees as expenses would be high to provide salaries and all other logistics for the newly elected officials. As things begin to complicate in Kenya, its helpless people doubt the capacity of its government to sustain their daily needs and start to lose hope over their condition, especially now that the rainy season is complicating their daily battles to survive. Several sicknesses and diseases like colds and pneumonia have caused the death of some refugees living in tents with insufficient food supply and medical care. Are we looking for possible survival of these marginalized Kenyans? Or we are only waiting for their lives to end? Whatever assistance that Kenya will get is a big thing to treasure for the many families who are hoping to overcome these hardships in life. Donor countries will be very much welcome to give anything they can provide to the losing hearts of the refugees. Their hope becomes blurred as their government seems helpless to give what they badly needed.