The Association of Kenyans in Switzerland (T.A.K.S)

People like Dorothy Angote, the Lands Permanent Secretary should find better things to do or say when it comes to moving the lives of Kenyans from the  current situation of lack and despondency.
 Dorothy Angote was reported by the by Beauttah Omanga of East African Standard as having re-opened the highly emotive land issue and heaped blame on the  Kenyatta regime for the problems bedeviling Kenyans today. She went
back into history and recounted fairly and mythical tales about the  inheritance of laws from the British imperialists as the reason Kenyans are languishing due to land related issues.  Angote recalled independence  history, saying the British government gave Kenya huge amounts of money in  1964 to resettle landless Kenyans when her citizens, former colonial
 masters, returned home at the dawn of independence. However, the money Angote was referring to was given by the British government to partly  compensate white settlers who were leaving Kenya and the balance to resettle Kenyans who had lost their land to the settlers. Dorothy, please get you fact right and stop taking us back to irrelevant historical times.
Our concerns with people like Dorothy Angote and James Orengo in matters of land policy debate and lack of workable solutions given the current state of land affairs. Dorothy could not even come up with one policy solution other
than reminisce on the past as if we can go back to pre-independence days.
Kenyans are not living in the past. We are living now. We need solutions and not in the past. If People like Dorothy cannot provide the required policy  leadership, which can produce solutions, the, they should quit public office and allow Kenyans with passion for solutions for today to serve in that capacity.
Please, for heaven’s sake, stop living in the past. We need solutions for the 21st century. These endless land commissions should be abolished. Land issue in Kenya is not rocket science. It is either there are legitimate issues or ego possessed politicians are merely pandering waiting for the next general election.  The horizons do not indicate a sign of land
redistribution in Kenya. After, who owns the land? It is the selfish and ego filled politicians who have zero desire to see the welfare of peace loving
Kenyans uplifted. So, can Kenyans expect to see any meaning land reform policy championed by the likes of Dorothy Angote and James Orengo?  Over the years, Kenyans have witnessed a passive approach my the administration to  resolve issues through commissions of inquiry. The cost of running those boogieman kinds of commissions runs into billions of shillings at a time when the government cannot provide the basic necessities like security, food, and health services.
If Dorothy Angote cannot provide feasible policy direction into the land issues in Kenya, she should be fired for sloppy work.
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I have always wondered about politics and politicians. In so called democracies, when is the power of the Mwanainchi ceded to the political leader? Surely not at the ballot box, because that would be frightening.  You cast a piece of paper as your neighbour similarly does for the candidate and tomorrow you are at each others throat with the neighbour at the instigation of the politicians? You read their party manifestos and no where does it talk about war. You cast a piece of paper as they do in the friendly neighbouring country in the east and shortly after the politician has mobilized your armed forces, comprising your sons and daughters and none of his ofcourse, and tomorrow with one command you and the neighbouring country are tearing each other to pieces. And who said the politician, at the time of giving the order knew anything about the armed forces, how they fight their wars, their brutalities, inhumane actions for which the politician will be trying to ironically explain tomorrow. And where is morality in all this? After attacking and occupying the neighbouring country in the east, they will be the first to cry foul when the neigbour in the south does the same thing to the neighbour in the west and their explanation will be that the “Circumstances” were different and lo what about when the neighbour in the north tried to attack their country? off to the UN with a myriad of complains under as many conventions protecting only “Their” interests. The big question however is exactly when do we cede the people’s power to these people? and how can we regain it when it is neccessary to do so. Is it all lost until the next election. My suggestion is provide for a provision for wanainchi to petition against some conduct of politicians on critical matters and if the petition goes through by popular vote, so be it, the politician has to reconsider their position. Do not tell me about budgets ’cause any war would probably surpass any costs in blue and green dollars to the affected wanainchi.Street protests have rarely amounted to anything so let us make it official, otherwise down the road you will tear down the whole concept of humanity if you leave your lives to these people called “Politicians”.