If Almighty God was to dispense instant justice for sins committed to citizens in this country, Kenya would have very few technocrats and politicians left.
If He did the same to officials in Non-Governmental bodies, including religious entities, there would be very few remaining too.
More often than not non-state actors are quick to point fingers at state shortcomings forgetting they too are not blameless.
The overt and covert wrongs that are committed by people who are entrusted with responsibilities to serve humanity is mind boggling.
These are people who get employment opportunities or elected to public offices.
Their mandates is to offer leadership and or manage public resources but instead end up being consumed in improprieties.
Their combined commissions and omissions has caused untold suffering to citizens and society.
How these officials live with what they do is beyond comprehension, especially when what surround them is poverty and misery.
Take these wasteful trillion-shillings projects for instance.
If you have been keen, almost every other shopping centre across the country has empty market stalls built far from where those targeted for their use pry their trade.
These are mama mbogas as well as general traders.
Apart from market stalls, countless unutilised value addition facilities dot every corner of rural countryside.
Trillions of taxpayers money has been spent on silent monuments and no official has ever been held to account.
In economics when funds are spent legally on moribund projects, they are termed as supply-drive, but when spent prudently, they are termed as demand-driven.
Usually, supply-driven projects are developed purely for kickbacks.
Such projects are “legal” because they fall under the planning, budgeting and implementation ambit.
Since procurement procedures for such projects are adhered to, it is difficult to pin down implementers on the basis of projects retardation.
Unless proactive steps are taken by oversight bodies prior to projects implementation, no legal action can be taken against implementers even if such projects are developed in the middle of Kobi-Fora desert.
Kenya is slowly entering the league of notorious countries with useless projects, such as the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
To make matters worse, the devolved governments were supposed to bring services and projects to the grassroots but instead they are on a conspicuous consumption spree.
Apart from such useless projects, citizens get to witness newest models of fuel guzzlers moving up and down the county roads on daily basis.
It doesn’t matter to such county administrations that every one of those multimillion fuel guzzler could adequately build a fully equipped dispensary, water pan, cater for garbage collection, gravel long kilometres of earth roads, improve learning facilities, rehabilitate coffee factories and tea buying sheds for the citizens.
Instead, buying such expensive transport for commissions from motor vehicle dealers is the right thing to do for these merciless, insensitive and crooked technocrats.
Since independence, countless NGOs have initiated and implemented development programmes, ostensibly to complement government’s efforts to fight diseases, ignorance and poverty.
These non-state actors have so far poured trillions of shillings in the rural and urban projects but the same challenges that they set out to address have multiplied.
It doesn’t require rocket science to conclude that the bulk of resources that are meant for such projects have ended up enriching projects implementers at the expense of the intended citizens.
In the religious sector, the same story abounds.
Church projects have become conduits to endlessly solicit and syphon funds from donors and tithers.
Many church compounds are dotted with mammoth projects, which despite millions being raised have taken ages to complete.
Wrangles over misuse and competition for resources is becoming the hallmark of many a church.
It is unfortunate that even with the presence of Boards and Committees to provide stewardship and guidance, wastage of taxpayers money and misuse of donor and membership resources is rampant in every sphere of human development.
These revelations are sensitive and there are those who might find it painful to admit it and even condemn me but someone has to tell the world about them and what they represent.
My question therefore is how do those involved and their families who in any case benefit from the miseries of fellow human beings live with it?
Even if they develop hard skins, somehow the guilty conscience eventually takes a toll on such uncouth people.
No wonder instead of enjoying their ill-gotten wealth, the ones we know who are living in opulence are inflicted with problems just like the deprived citizens.
Most painful to deal with is when you factor other overt financial scandals that lead to loss of trillions of taxpayers money.
Ultimately, as I stated from the beginning, God might not dispense instant justice to those who torment fellow citizens in such inhumane manner, but He sure shall serve them justice here on earth and finally in purgatory.
Mark my word!
Kaunda wa Muchunku
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