@edwinsifuna After being a speaker for the longest and an Mp under the Moi regime with little constitutional regulations,his constituency has zero kilometers of tarmac and languishing in colonial land mercy! Huge tracks of land under whites and him being their lawyer and chairman.��
@Ruthjelagat13 The current president was against the 2010 constitution,yes.Funny how he's rushing this laws and the affordable housing con game...Simwelewi kabisa
The late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was not only the founding father of Tanzania but also a seer. He could see Idi Amin Mama coming. He dissociated himself from a country made up of cowards. Suluhu si uoga. No retreat no Surrender, Africa!
#AfricaRising✊🏾
The Maasai community in Tanzania is also protesting against the government’s plan to sell their land to private investors, declaring they are ready to die defending it!
@Tevin_IsOmondi The bill went through Parliament,all stages up to presidential assent😭😭😭😭
Truly, the Gen Zs who reached Parliament and chose rice instead of mission focusing did us baaad
Bill gates is wiping Kenyans out and its the Kenyan govt helping him, why do you guys vote, why pple so stupi😫. You a slave without land. They are turning us into a landless people, if you dont own any land, you are subjected to those who do. They building you affordable housing to live after they take yoh land
A scene from The Bildad Kagia Play, depicting him arguing with Kenyatta over how land was being dished out!
One of the prime crimes that happened after our so called independence is that Kenya was loaned £12.5M, to be loaned to Kenyans by the new government, for purposes of buying land from the white colonialists who wished to sell “their” land back to the natives.
As we all know, banks don’t just give money to anyone; one has to prove that they can pay, that they have collateral and so on.
Most of the Mau Mau fighters who had been in the forest and the detainees (prisoners of war) who had just come back from detention & prison in 1961-62 did not have collateral. Their kids had also been victimized and denied an opportunity to advance their education as the colonial government advanced the interests of their collaborators.
These means that most of those who had the means and networks to acquire the loans to buy the land from the white colonialists were the colonial collaborators.
In fact, while this was going on, Jomo Kenyatta’s government was busy hunting down the remaining Mau maus, killing & silencing them.
Bildad Kagia chose to advocate for equity! He held to the belief that we could create a fair Kenya. He refused to be bribed with huge chunks of land and for this, he paid a price too high. At some point in the play, the narrator wonders whether Bildad’s principals were necessary in such a corrupt nation and how they played out on the people around him. For example, his children attended local primary schools instead of the prestigious schools where prominent politicians’ kids usually schooled.
Bildad died in 2005 at Jericho Estate in his daughter’s house. That scene really broke my heart and my sister made a commentary on how sad his ending was, perhaps even more than Kimathi’s; the later had died hopeful that the rest of the country would carry on with the fight and win. As for Bildad, he had lived through the war, he had seen independence, but things shifted immediately. He had seen his friends like Pio Gama being eliminated for their stand against Jomo’s government. He had lived through an assassination attempt, and like most of the political class of the time, he had had an opportunity to steal public resources and enrich himself! However, the man had chosen to continue with the fight for a Kenya that could work for all, and he had lived through decades of seeing that become an impossibility.
Here is a man who fought, never sold out despite numerous opportunities to, but one will be permitted to wonder, for what? For we live in a country that celebrates, honors and crowns the sell outs.
You can still catch the play at the Kenya National Theatre Today!