While Celebrities Are Too Scared to Accept Boniface Mwangi’s Challenge, Cabu gah Embraces It
Boniface Mwangi challenged Kenyan celebs to show that they had a spine and cared for something other than their music. none stepped forth. Well, that is other than Juliani who is always showing love for any worthy cause.
that would be all i have to write if it weren’t for noble souls such as Cabu Gah who champion the cause for what they feel is right. And this is what Cabu Gah had to say:
I remember clearly,the ONLY NAMES I saw in the March 4th Ballot Paper were; Martha Karua,Peter Kenneth,Musalia Mudavadi,Uhuru Kenyatta,Raila Odinga,Ole Kiyapi and Paul Muite.
And I didnt see the KANU party either.
But,day by day,it looks like I am living in 1993. And Mzee Moi is in POWER!
I am NOT a media person. Or a journalist. Or a reporter. And I have NO stake in the media industry whatsover.
I am just a simple artist. A musician,writer and social evangelist.
But today,I will be joining the KENYAN MEDIA in protesting AGAINST My President. And His Government.
I was quite young when the Moi Government was ruthlessly clobbering and breaking the skull of a hapless but undaunted Wangari Maathai.
Maathai stood for Truth. And Justice. And Freedom. And Democracy.
But for her trouble,she was met with the MOST horrendous beatings in the streets.
She was clobbered. And pounded. And mauled. And whipped. And battered.
For being so audacious. For being so daring. And stubborn. And valiant.
Not just her.
Many others faced Nyayo’s monstrous wrath,too.
From Gitobu Imanyara to Kenneth Matiba. From Rev.Njoya to Bishop Gitari.
Nyayo wouldnt let them.
The PRESS was muzzled. Journalists were incredulously intimidated. Newspapers were threatened. Editors were gagged.
And FREEDOM was stifled.
Even artists were NOT spared the wrath of the abhorrent Government.
Neither were writers.
Eric Wainaina had his song “Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo” banned from airplay.
And one time,wicked KANU Government sycophants even switched off his microphone,to stop him from performing that song!
Ngugi wa Thiong’o had to flee to Exile. And “Whispers” Wahome Mutahi had to live with daily threats and dangers from a monstrous Government headed by a paranoid narcissist.
God,those were TERRIBLE,TERRIBLE DAYS.
I thought that abominable regime was gone since 2002.
I could be wrong.
Now I see our dear,old Media being ran out of town.
Our President is turning back the clock,sadly.
He and the ever-nauseting Parliament have plunged their venomous fangs into the neck of the Media.
Now,Journalists CANNOT report freely.
Editors CANNOT publish hard truths.
Mohammed Ali will have to seek exile.
And John Allan Namu will start selling mayai chemsha in Kariokor.
ITS UNACCEPTABLE!
President Kenyatta,IT IS UNACCEPTABLE!
You MUST tame Your boys in Parliament.
You MUST!
Nobody is safe.
NOBODY!
Neither the Judiciary. Or the Media. Or the Artists.
Dammit!
THIS IS 2013,For Christssake!
And a digital PRESIDENT is IN POWER!
Surely,He MUST desist from the Moi-esque tendencies!
President Kenyatta,I believe In You.
And I LOVE YOU,Bro.
BUT THE MOMENT You start going for independent institutions,this LOVE wont last long.
THE MEDIA MUST BE LEFT ALONE.
And the Judiciary,too.
And the NGOs,too.
And Artists like me,too.
Not unless JUBILEE IS the new KANU,then WE DEMAND a difference.
A DEMOCRACY RESPECTS opinions…no matter how crazy or how unorthodoxly presented.
Boniface Mwangi heckles Atwoli at a National function…His testicles are crushed by covert,state goons.
And,bloodied and beaten silly, he is hauled into a police cell.
Another protester heckles Obama HIMSELF at an American function,Obama turns around,speaks to the guy,tries explaining stuff to him…OBAMA STOPS A SPEECH to reason with the GUY!!!!
And NOTHING happens to the guy later.
But with people like the cantankerous Adan Duale,the comical Joshua Kuttuny and the sycophantic Speaker Justin Muturi still surrounding the President,I am sorry to say,KANU IS BACK!!
And when I remember that Joshua Kuttuny,the raucous rambler who ignominiously LOST an election, is NOW the SENIOR ADVISER to President Kenyatta,MY HEART BLEEDS.
Its like picking Huddah Monroe to advice Oprah Winfrey!
God!
I weep for my motherland!