While en route coming home I decided to stop in Dubai at the Atlantis Hotel. It is amazing how many young Kenyans are working and earning a living that pays them double if not triple of a similar job back home.
But more than that it gives them an opportunity to work and earn an honest living. This is the resilience you find with Kenyans.
It is nice that they are so happy to see fellow Kenyans which reaffirms to me that our bond as a people is being Kenyan. It is not in our tribe or party? That is the patriotism that we should preach and practice back home, that we are one people united by the same values each of us hold dear in our heart!

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I am at it again about Kenya my beloved country. What I am trying to come to terms with is what kind of a country do we live in where the rule of law does not apply and institutions are abused with such impunity by the very officers we pay to run them who are supposedly the servants of the Kenyan people?

What has happened to basic values like honesty, integrity, unity, nationalism, patriotism, being able to stand up for what is right and working hard for our daily bread. Learning to share what we have while we teach others how to earn a livelihood is the only way that Kenya can rise from this debauchery it has sunk into.

Today City Hall has destroyed Adopt a Light outdoor adverts worth over 10 million. They are also pulling down Thika road and the irony of it is, we had asked where we should put the masts knowing the road would be expanded and they directed us to do it bang in the middle. Now they say the masts are in the way and there goes 80 million worth of work leading to more carnage and theft on the highway. What a waste of resources ?

I have not had any response forthcoming from the public servants concerned. But soldier on we must since losing a battle is not losing a war! What will define us as Kenyans other than our resiliency at standing up for injustices and our continued stand for the Truth!