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The challenge of
development and redressing marginalization in N.E.P
By: Mohamed kutuby
Kutuby45@hotmail.com
With the development program in question mark northeasterners are
worried of the political unrest in the country, Northeastern is the way
it was during the independence and only few was done to improve the
situation of the people living in this marginalized part of the world.
But what is the problem of Northeastern province? There is no region too
poor to harness its local assets to earn something, what our people in
this region need is technology, this pastoral tribe can develop
livestock and earn millions from supplying meat and other animal
products to the agricultural tribes, the cities and even for export, the
area is said to having petroleum but who will exploit it for this poor
people?. Despite all this wealth northeastern is the least developed in
the country.
The money collected from the "animal markets' in the region is enough to
change the area unfortunately these millions end up into the pockets of
corrupted local authorities. The area Mps are squarely blamed for this
underdevelopment and the suffering of these people because the are not
united over the development programs as each one of them is there only
for his own interest and the Garissa-mandera highway project may
collapse due to their laziness, may be the newly elected honorables are
different as most of them are new and active gentle men among the is
hon. farah ma'alim who is eager to change the region and because the so
called "old dogs" are nowhere to be seen this means that Northeasterners
have understood their interest late to vote for change noting that the
problems are caused by the absence of real leadership.
In the previous years the people who were representing us failed the
general population of NEP and were only implementing what the Government
orders them to do we hope they are not repeating the same mistake again,
we are not ready to be enslaved, mistreated and marginalized again
enough is enough, no more emergency law and no more leta kitambulisho in
Northeastern province.
We don’t have the leverage to benefit or even share the national cake
{resources} with the rest of the country, The government had refused and
failed to develop the region since the independent in 1963, why should
we believe they will do now? The only thing we got from the Kenya
government is killing of thousands of innocent civilians in Garissa,
Wajir and Mandera in the excuse of maintaining law and order in the
area! Our right were violated by the same government for decades and
therefore its our duty to educate our people why its important to
develop ourselves without depending on such governments, please do not
be deceived that time has not arrived yet and wait for no one else you
can make difference yourself.
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