I read this well thought out piece on the complacency of the Kenyan middle class and thought to share by Eunice Songa
Kenya is a beautiful place, isn’t it? Opportunities abound for those
willing to work hard; the land where you can be born in a small village,
work hard and enjoy your lifetime in lush suburbs of Nairobi.
But we get caught up in that rat race don’t we? The never ending pursuit
to get a bigger, flatter TV, a smarter phone, a more expensive car and
holidays to those exotic destinations we see on our friends’ timeline.
While we make sure our children are in elite private school “A”, that
our houses are on the right side of the CBD, while we are sipping our
500 shilling mojitos with colleagues at the hottest after work watering
holes in the city, our beloved Kenya, our land of opportunity is
crumbling right around us.
But hey we know these problems right? They are plastered across the
dailies: “Doctors strike again!” “ 2.5 Bn shillings scandal in Ministry
of “take your pick”” “KCSE exams leaked!” “Security at all time low in
Kenya!”
What do you really feel when you read those headlines? I won’t lie, I am guilty of it as well. you skim the article to keep informed and have something to say during
polite conversation and continue flipping through the newspaper. So when billions of shillings disappear, money that we break our backs
to earn, why aren’t we up in arms about it? Why aren’t outraged, enraged
by these scandals? Why isn’t there a fire burning inside of you when
you realize the people you put in charge of the well being of your
beloved Kenya do not measure up and are in fact draining us of the
little we have.
We, the middle and upper class pay most of the tax but why don’t we demand quality service?
Mind Thoughts : 'The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.'_ Andre Gide
