The heading of this week's The Economist Magazine boldly states, "East Africa’s most important country is failing to pick itself up after a traumatic and bloody election". The article again looks at the major problems pulling reform behind with the root of all the political confusion conspicuously being a leadership regime that just won't get it. With inflation at a rate of 18%, 4 million reportedly depending on food aid, dragged justice just really is too much for Kenyans to handle not to mention growing tensions arising from the angry and highly charged mostly-youth population. If leaders or should I say same old leaders, don't really put their words to action now and implement reform and serve justice as best desired by Kenyans, I am really afraid of a bleak future comprising instability and chaos generally.
Of course problems facing the East African stronghold do not just stem from the post-election violence and processes following from the violence but they are very deep-seated issues which would probably need more time to fix than is being expected but just for the sake of the immediate future a quick and rigid solution needs to be reached at quick hastily. Kenyans' problem's with political differences will not just be decided at a court but should come from the people themselves. That is probably a question for another day so for now, why don't "we" all just get done with the acting and do something about the delayed justice which as I see it might be a huge course of concern from the international community(which has to again be the big Bretton Woods institutions which we are now forced to look up to).
Why should we let justice and the demise of a few front line individuals, which is definitely what some of the alleged instigators are looking at by me, pull our rating down?
You can read the whole Economist article here
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