Business Daily (Nairobi)
17 January 2008
editorial
Political activism notwithstanding, we cannot afford economic saboteurs in our midst. We have witnessed the crippling of the lakeside town of Kisumu's economy with scores of entrepreneurs leaving for good after losing their property to looters, goons and arsonists.
Eldoret town is on its knees too. Trenches have been dug across main roads, illegal roadblocks have sprung up, bridges brought down and public offices burnt down across Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces.
On Thursday, we saw goons try to derail a train in Kibera slums of Nairobi. In word, goons are bringing down what tax payers painfully built. Agitation for change cannot be achieved via economic destruction and sabotage.
Sanity must prevail since we will all pay a heavy price for the self-destruction we are going through. The days when nations thrived and emerged from the ashes of war and ruins are over. After the last embers die out, we will still have a nation to build, and an economy to run. Our politicians are not helping us either.
It is time we separated the reformists in our streets from goons taking advantage of the crackdown on Orange Democratic Movement rallies. It is time we separated hard-liners from moderates in both President Kibaki's camp and the Raila Odinga's group.
The MPs have left their institution solid and unharmed. It is the poor man's economy that has been hurt by the ongoing political push.
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