Friends, citizens of Kenya,
when we launched The Clean Kenya Campaign on the 15th May 2012,
we were clear in our minds what we wanted for Kenya. Our country is dirty, from
the physical environment to the social and political realms. Our values are
dirty, our leadership is wanting, our morals are debasing and our relations
with each other are equally wanting.
We have become a careless society, we dispose our waste without care for
the environment, our leaders are a selfish lot with no vision, we worship
mediocrity and are easy to manipulate, bribe and incite. We can be called to
kill for the lust of power and greed for wealth. All these are filth in
society. We have become a dirty society in all spheres.
The filth that is our country.
Basically, we have lost the consciousness that distinguishes humans from
base animals. This ladies and gentlemen, is how ‘dirty” Kenya has become.
It is this continuous spiral into a society without conscience that led
us to begin a campaign that would clean the physical as we take stock of our
social and political lives.Impunity, corruption, lethargy, mediocrity and tribalism rules our lives.
We are headed for another election year and already, mediocrity, tribal
alliances, political shenanigans, innuendo, misinformation, abuses and hate
form the bedrock of what most of our leaders and aspirants seek higher office.
We must redefine our lives with certain irreducible minimums. We must
arise and redefine what our values, aspirations, common destiny and vision is
as a nation.
We all have a role to play for a cleaner, safer, decent and peaceful Kenya.
We all want to enjoy cleaner, safer and decent environments to live in,
enough to eat, take our children to school, access quality and reliable health
care, a job that puts food on the table, infrastructure that makes trade and
movement easy and above all, service delivery that is commensurate with the tax
burden we bear.
We are inviting all Kenyans of all walks of life to this Kenyan
Initiative. We have already formed the University Students for A Clean Kenya
with its membership already at over 5600 and Religious Leaders for A Clean Kenya,
we want to invite Doctors for A Clean Kenya, Teachers for A Clean Kenya,
Lawyers for A Clean Kenya, Civil Servants for A Clean Kenya, Architects for A
Clean Kenya, Jua Kali Artisans for A Clean Kenya, Sportsmen for A Clean Kenya.
In essence, each and every one of us in our small ways can become a
change agent for a clean Kenya
where issues, good leadership, good governance, selflessness, integrity and
sacrifice for Kenya
is our rallying call.
We call upon all Kenyans to join this growing national consciousness. We
are activating these networks to interrogate leadership, redirect leadership to
issues and ensure we have peaceful elections that will lead to prosperity
irrespective of which tribe our leaders come from. Hence, we are driving the KURA KWA FUHARA campaign. This is to
ensure peaceful elections bring happiness through putting into office visionary
and pragmatic leadership.
These networks will ensure we continue holding to account leadership in
the devolved units. They will remain the social audit networks as we move into
devolution.
The
Clean Kenya Campaign is a non partisan campaign to take back our country
from the sorry dustbin of mediocrity it has been thrown into. We will use our
platforms for all our activities for positive engagements with fellow Kenyans
to reclaim Kenya’s
beauty and integrity both in physical cleanliness and as a peaceful nation.
Best,
Otieno Sungu.
TCKC
0729294743.
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