So the media tells us that President Uhuru Kenyatta has re-constituted his inner team and put in place a new 'power circle' to enable him to ruthlessly execute his idea of what Kenya should be. The same media reports on government officials disregarding court orders with impunity and treating our Constitution like an inconvenient rag, making this seem like the new normal.
When we ask whether there are no other qualified Kenyans to serve in key offices than Kariuki, Muturi and Kinuthia, we are told to wait for our turn to eat. When we ask why the government has decided that court orders are just suggestions which it may or may not obey at its convenience, we are told we are an unruly lot that needs a benevolent dictator who knows what is best for us.
But when people tell us to accept and move on, many of us groan like the ancient Hebrews being forced to produce bricks without straw. We cry out to God, 'Please set us free!' and to the politicians 'Let us go! Let us find some space to worship God, to think, to be human, to be Kenyan, outside the bars and walls of tribe and the fences of party, of this new dictatorship. The bars in which we are currently constrained, imprisoned and suffocating.
But make no mistake. Our time is at hand. Soon we, like the Hebrews, will head out into the wilderness. We will risk hunger, thirst, exposure, death. For we cannot sustain this constrained way of being, of thinking, of living, any longer.
Change is coming.
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