"I have started realizing the disquietedness among Kenyans and I have realized that power has gone into our heads and we are losing focus. And am sure that we wont be able to attract the passion and excitement as we did a year ago" that was Wamalwa commenting on Narc's 1st anniversary in office. After the end of the Second World War most nations strived to achieve full independence from their colonies so as to govern themselves, plan, educate, train and improve the livelihood of their people; freedom was all that was needed. From Ghana to Zaire, Nigeria to Tanzania the script and the song were the same and though many lives were lost during the struggle but those who lived to see the day jubilated to end the long night of their captivity.

Jomo Kenyatta took the leadership of this country promising to steer it to Economic, Political and Social prosperity but power in itself is a disease that can be cured by losing the same power! What a paradox. Soon enough the empowered black leader resorts to oppressing his own people and believe me you welcome to the world of assassinations, just to cling to power until the end of time. Readers a case study in point is our beloved country Kenya and the journey is long and painful having left open ended wounds that will never heal as long as humanity lives. A brilliant leader in Kenyatta's cabinet is shot dead in broad daylight to end an ambitious political carrier that was Tom mboya. His star was rising so first to disgust of the power that be.

Even a Kenyan of Asian origin was not spared, drops dead Pio Gama Pinto.

"A small but powerful group of self-seeking elite in the form of politicians, civil servants and businessmen has steadily but very surely monopolized the fruits of independence to the exclusion of the majority of people. We do not want to create a Kenya of 10 millionaires and 10 million beggars". That was J.M. Kariuki and in 1975 he was also assassinated and the country ran amok, all this in the name of protecting power. Kenya is not the only case in point but from America to Asia, Africa to Austria the trend is the same and many good leaders have gone down that line leaving only their echoes.

Wait a minute is it really worth going to this extreme? Do you kill the person but the spirit and cause goes on, from basic universal history Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin go done in history as having led the most vicious regimes in history but same batons were transferred to Mobutu, Amin and Samuel doe.

My question is assassination the only option to political and power games, come on answer me! Just know that it takes more than a National Anthem however stirring, a national coat of arms however distinctive, a national flag however appropriate to make a Nation. By Omuga Kiyaka