By: Rashid Wanjala
During the Presidential debate, Uhuru made the “willing buyer, willing seller” remark (very insensitive to the majority poor) which has ignited debate and fire, testament that people are fed up with Capitalistic answers to historical land injustices at The Coast, Rift Valley and Central Kenya.
Uhuru must know that a key tenet of perfect competition is free flow of information. Kenyatta as President had superior access to land markets information than the other Kenyan willing buyers, he knew where land was available, and at how much.
He knew where land was available. He went there first, and hoarded the commodity in huge quantities. Other willing buyers got the message late and went but found the supplies had been hoarded via phone calls to PCs, DCs etc by Kenyatta.
Okay it’s not Uhuru’s commission, but his is an act of omission by not sharing the loot. 5 decades after the hoarding, he still sits on the commodity. His land is still home to squatters, who are just asking for a “quarter of an acre for the squatter” out of his half a million acres.
Kenyatta family land-half a million acres- can supply 4 million families with an eighth of a plot. If each family has an average of 5 members per family that’s 20 million Kenyans out of 30 million Kenyans.
That’s bottom 65% of landless Kenyans each owning an eighth of an acre. Kenyans could as well kiss land problems goodbye, if Uhuru would lead the House of Kenyatta into stopping being selfish. Land prices would drop, as supply would correct the mismatch with demand. The common men like you and I would for once afford land. Uhurunomics?
The historical presidential debates were meant to be a milestone of democracy, equality, equity and liberty but Uhuru turned it into a theatre of bragging- reading from a script of the absurd. Capitalistic answers cannot substitute moral questions that are about redistributive justice. For a man to one day rest in peace, compassion is a virtue that has to be exemplified by a rich man.
Even Andrew Carnegie one of the richest men in the early 20th C, unlike Uhuru, owned up to the evils of corporate greed and committed his wealth and last years to charity. And even today, The Carnegie family and trustees continue to advance his ideals of giving back through the Carnegie Endowment Fund. Such is the act that helped him die in peace.
Uhuru has to help his Dad rest in peace. He has to court the landless and/or explain to them why they should let his dad rest in peace. He has the power to restitute the malfeasances meted out on these harmless souls that has no ability to become “willing buyers”.
The Rockefeller Foundation is also the brainchild of a family intent on rehabilitating an image of a business empire whose image is mired in a cloud of corporate greed and capitalism without compassion.
Uhuru’s capitalism lacks one ingredient, which is compassion. But to regain the trust of the landless masses he has to rebel against family. He has to shake off family baggage. He has to share the spoils with the masses.
Yes Uhuru’s wealth is a birthright, an inheritance. But he is a man above the age of majority. He can decline a part of his inheritance, if he wants to regain the moral high ground of redistributive justice. He cannot hide behind his family. The Kenyatta family comprises individuals. Uhuru is “man solo”. He can commit his portion of inheritance to a good cause. That’s what the landless masses and the squatters are asking.
However, Uhuru, as usual has chosen family over the nation, as evidenced by his arrogant answer during the Presidential debate. It took Raila’s intervention to save him from the debate-mob of Presidential wonna-bees that was baying for his blood.
And those pissed off by his answers are many, including Joshua Arap Sang’ who made a Youtube video as a rebuttal to Uhuru’s claims that appear to be disrespectful to the poor and desolate. Those so poor, landless and jobless to be willing buyers, and willing sellers.
Mama ngina once angrily, snaped at a reporter, when asked if she could donate a peace of land to the orphans after an orphanage visit. I doubt if there is an Iota of remorse in the family, no wonder most land agents are from one region only.
And those are the saddening facts that we must face
Uhuru claimed to have donated the 30k land in Taita Taveta. Is it a reality or a gimmick. Uhuru should come out clean and confess to the sins of his father and face the bool by the horns. He should not keep hiding under the table over the land issue. The more he continues to hide the more the aggitation from Kenyans, he may find all of it bellonging to all Kenyans at the end of the day. KEEP WATCHING
Its late for Uhurus capitalism to show compassion to landless kenya. Its now the best time for Kenyans to vote wisely. I thank the Debate organisers to advocate for democracy.
Food for thought!
Food for thought.
why u so much consentrate on Uhuru land? How many hectors his family owned?
acheni siasa mob iyo ni crap its senseless n meaningless whoever posted this lemmi put it very categoricaly that you r a poor boy even upstears struggle 4 wat will help u not politising nonsence hia if tha lands are for the benefit of tha nation n economy thn hio ujinga yako peleka kwenu stop being a small boy n infact adress this 2 kenyataa in grave not uhuru the son.nkt….
Relax man, the article is noble and full of sense…stress nayo.
sijui nini inauma watu na shamba ya the kenyatta family. even if he wants to donate he would never donate the whole 500k acres again ,this land ni ya the brothers sisters etc so they cant even allow him to sell an inch without their consent. Picture it like kama ingekuwa its your dad at the helm u think unge sema juu u want to be the president you donate it. we should focus more on the businesses we can put up and be self dependant as for the land incase one is a squatter at any of their land for over 12 years then they should be the ones to be considered but not ati land in coast ipewe some poor landless man in central just because they have a lot.
Larry, we understand it is not his passe, the issue is his family owns tracks and tracks of land where as other families are hucking each other for as little as quota accre! That is why I suggest to the Kenyatta family to face every reality that comes with the land issue in this country, because at the end of the day, it will be repossed. The earlier they face it the better for them and Kenyans. KEEP WATCHING LARRY :)
If you want the status Quo to change then use your vote wisely come Monday 4th.
Tunahitaji mashamba yetu, Let him tell us who sold him.
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haya willing buyer willing seller. who sold him 30,000 hactres of land?
keep it to your self
kali hiyo
Imani…..this is one question i have asked myself this week mpaka they're close to labeling me as hater
I don’t belief the fate of the landless should be left at the mercies of the Kenyatta family or anyone owning huge tracks of land. I think his answer was very good. He committed himself to support and respect the INDEPENDENT LAND COMMISSION to do it job. Should the Commission find it that part of Kenyatta’s or any other person’s estate was acquired illegally, then such land will be repossessed. Why I think this is the right course is because the distribution of the land in Kenya will be fair irrespective of who is in the power. Let us even for a minute think that Uhuru is not running for presidency and he want to do business. What it means is the He can still keep the land if acquired legally and he has no obligation to share his family estate on compassionate ground. I don’t want to think even for a minute that I will own land just because someone somewhere have mercy on my plight. In such instance, am not guaranteed to ever own land but if the Commission does it job light, every one is assured of a fair share.
Poverty mentality. Always thinking freebies. No wonder, some crooks took over others properties in the guise of stolen elections. But take this for free: there are people born in Kibera and Mathare slums and through their own effort end up in Karen and Runda. They did not wait for the free Uhuru land.
Take this also for free: the poverty level of a country is directly proportional to the fraction of the population that derives their livelihood directly from land.
Even propaganda should be intelligent. So you want a family of 5 to live on an eighth acre plot in the middle of Taita Taveta? How low can one get?
this is very sage advice to somebody who owns "half of kenya"………. na kenya ni KUBWA SANAAA.
n thts why kenyans will never succeed…. waiting 4 donations n blaming the wealthy for all their problems
Nonsense.
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