Is Kenya a Failed State or is it Failing?

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Sun, April 24, 2011 12:41:29

OPEN LETTER TO

Hon. George Saitoti
Minister of state for Provincial Administration and Internal Security
KICC Building, 3rd. Floor
PO BOX 45617-00100
Nairobi.

Dear Sir,

IS KENYA A FAILING STATE OR A FAILED STATE?.
For 14 years since 1992, the Kenya Government totally failed to stop the attacks, murder and evictions of innocent Kenyans from their homes. Many women and children were murdered and many orphans and widows emerged from the attacks. Today, they languish in poverty and suffering as Internally displaced people in their own country. These are people who had acquired their homes legally and had lived in their homes peacefully for many years. The Government of Kenya has totally failed to return the IDP to their homes. The Kenya Government has totally been unable to provide enough security for the IDP to go back to their homes. Whereas there is no law in Kenya that paves way for any community or any individual Kenyan to claim free land in Kenya, the Kenya Government has continued to tolerate and to allow one single community, the Kalenjins, to harass, attack, kill and evict other communities from the Rift Valley.

You will recall that 2 years before the first attacks in Sondu in 1991/92, President Moi had continuously warned Kenyans and the entire world of the consequences of introducing a Multiparty system of Governance in Kenya. For a period of more than two consecutive years before those attacks and killings which took place in Sondu, President Moi gave the war warnings whenever he addressed any gathering in Kenya. In his first 14 years of rule from 1978 to 1989, before the pressures for the introduction of the multiparty system of governance build up high, President Moi never, at any time mentioned anything, to do with war or chaos in Kenya. Similarly, the Kalenjin community had never protested or claimed land in the Rift Valley in Kenya, before President Moi prophesied and/or predicted war and chaos in Kenya. The Kalenjin community in Kenya had lived peacefully and intermarried with other communities before and after the independence of Kenya in 1963. The utterances of Moi about war and chaos in Kenya is what cost many Kenyans their lives and others who continue to suffer from senseless attacks and evictions. It is therefore in order to construe that President Moi incited his community to attack other communities who were perceived to have been behind the pressures for the introduction of a multiparty system of governance in Kenya through his war language. http://public-opinions-uganda.blogspot.com/search/label/Isaac%20Newton%20Kinity.

The Kenya Government has failed to arrest and prosecute President Moi for his incitements which led to the beginning of the attacks in 1991/92. The Kenya Government has also failed to address the importation of poisoned arrows from South Korea in 1991 which were latter found in the bodies of those attacked and killed in 1991/92. http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/letters/58598/print.

Is there any reason the Kenya Government should not be declared a failed state after its failure to return the IDP to their legal homes, to prosecute President Moi for incitement and to prosecute those who imported arrows from South Korea which were used to kill innocent Kenyans. Can the Kenya Government explain why it failed to stop the killing of innocent, helpless and defenseless women and children for more than 14 years since 1991/92 to 2008, except for 1999 to 2002? What other signs of a failed or a failing state are expected, other than the failure to protect the Citizens against any unjustified attacks? A few months ago I wrote a letter to Prof. PLO Lumumba asking him to investigate the importation of the arrows from South Korea and the subsequent use of the same arrows in the attack and killing of innocent Kenyans in 1992.

He replied to my letter and asked me to request the commissioner of the Kenya Police to do some investigation. I then wrote to the Commissioner of Police, but until this day I have not received a reply. What else would qualify a state the title of a “Failed State” if the above facts are not enough?.

Sincerely

Isaac Newton Kinity

Former Secretary General

Kenya Civil Servants Union and Chairman

Kikimo Foundation for Corruption and Poverty Eradication.

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