Dissent

My dear Kenyans

Please do not shout us down because some of us after the election still dissent. We are not any less patriotic for thinking otherwise. Do not chastise us for having serious reservations about our president elect. Do not deny us the liberty to shudder at the serious human rights violations charges leveled against our president elect and want answers. After all, not every African leader is walking around with similar charges and for our Nation’s sake, we deserve answers.  We have many other reasons and suspicions and we ask you to please not mistake our dissent for hatred, it is not. Some of us are Christians and know our duty to pray for the leader of our Nation and the content of those prayers may not be “Oh God how thankful we are” but, “Have mercy on us O God that we may lead a peaceable and quiet life in all Godliness”.  And some of us dissent because we do not view a Democratic decision as the equivalent of God’s approval, for we are well aware that many nations before us including Israel have asked for a King and God gave them a King. We also dissent because although we agree that it is God who raises up leaders and puts others down, it is also God who raises up those leaders for good or for evil and we just want to be sure for Democracy does not provide these assurance. Yes we dissent and we are proud to dissent and we are not six, we are a couple million strong. We may not pay homage to the majority, but we keep democracy vibrant dissenting even after the election, for the end of tallying does not signal the end of peaceful dissent… We too are going back to work, doing other things like dissenting and making widgets and building nations and paying homage to God alone who has never been known to be democratic and who may not necessarily shout for joy because the people have spoken. Personally I think the boy from Starehe is pretty smart..he he. Peace!!