[kictanet] [here we go again.. surely we can't be this dumb] 800, 000 Kenyans need food aid, agency says

[Patrick A. M. Maina]

Guys, last year the problem was TOO MUCH RAIN. This year (less than 12 months later), the problem is TOO LITTLE RAIN. This has been happening for over 100 years. 

Corruption makes us look foolish and incompetent to the rest of the world.. like we are incapable of something as basic as learning to compensate for nature's cycles. Then we get offended when the developed world holds  paternalistic or condescending attitudes towards us... It's not them, we are doing this to ourselves!

When will we realize that it is NOT THE RAIN PATTERNS that are the problem... it's having people who don't care about the impact of their selfish actions on the less privileged, in positions or jobs that require caring.
When you look at countries like the Netherlands, which should not even be viable (because 1/3 of their land is literally below sea level) or Israel - which is literally a desert but among the top 20 most food secure nations, the significance of our continued failure as a society really sinks in. 

Some problems are so fundamental, they should have been solved decades ago. There is no excuse. No one to blame, but ourselves as a society. We contribute our part to grand corruption by being silent and passive about it.

Silence, in the face of repeated injustice, means CONSENT. These are 800,000 victims of our silence in the face of corruption, nepotism and short sighted thinking. Don't blame the rain.. look in the mirror. That is where the problem is.

https://www.nation.co.ke/news/800-000-Kenyans-need-food-aid/1056-5016738-taikvpz/index.html

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