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The hustler-dynasty debate is about oppressors vs oppressed. It is not about rich vs poor and no amount of diversionary scaremongering will make it so. A thread. 1/14
For 47 yrs a small clique of colonial nyapara has ring-fenced the state and accumulated more power and wealth than colonialists ever did. KCA sent Jomo Kenyatta to London to deliver a petition on land injustice. He bequeathed his family more land than any settler ever owned.
For decades, we have told this oligarchy that economic disenfranchisement of the majority is a time bomb, but as Upton Sinclair noted years ago, it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.
Ten years ago, we enacted a new constitution and believed that we were finally on the road to true liberation. But no. The oligarchy is now dead set on restoring the colonial master-servant state that KANU preserved for 47 years. But they go further.
They have set about configuring the constitution to create a court of hereditary eating chiefs, thereby entrenching their political father Moi’s project of hereditary power. Musalia Mudavadi was plucked from obscurity to inherit his fathers seat.
He proceeded to drag Uhuru Kenyatta, an idler, from his drunken stupor and imposed him on KANU as his chosen successor. Raila was lured from the quest for electoral justice by the promise of restoration of the Odinga clan into the pantheon of ruling dynasties.
Now Uhuru seeks to “return the hand” by positioning the very lacklustre Gideon Moi to consolidate a Moi dynasty’s place in the court of eating chiefs.
Kenyans are not stupid. They know what the hustler dynasty discourse is not a class war between the rich and poor, it is a war between oppressors and oppressed, same war our forebears waged ever since colonialists imposed an illegitimate vampire state on free people.
Hustler-Dynasty class war is a war between genuine enterprise and predatory crony capitalist cartels. When Uhuru Kenyatta became Finance Minister just over a decade ago, we had a thriving competitive dairy industry with over 10 thriving competitors.
What do we have now? A Kenyatta cartel. When Uhuru took over as president, farmers were paid Sh30-35 per kg, consumers were paying Sh60. Where are we now. Farmers are paid Sh20-25 take it or leaving, consumers are paying Sh120.
What economic factors explain increase of processor margin three fold? Where is the competition authority? Captured, thats where. Have we not watched Keroche Breweries being crippled so that crony capitalist cartels can control the alcohol industry. Are the Karanja’s poor?
Are we not watching the NCBA banking cartel being unrolled without shame? Are the Mungas, Mwangi and other indigenous bank entrepreneurs poor?
Yes the hustler - dynasty debate is a class debate between the oppressors and oppressed and no amount of diversionary scaremongering will make it go away. We know who we are. We know how you are. We know where we are. We know where you are. Get off our necks. 14/14
