Kenyas Best
By William ODuor
Kenya urgently needs a leader who can articulate issues affecting the countrys progress in a simple language. A leader who is able to share with the people NOT from a prepared speech but original ideas. Great leaders doesnt read prepared speaches. We need a leader who can directly communicate his vision to the people. Tell me, who in Kenya of today can do this better than PLO Lumumba???
Kenya has also produced great and fairly good number of technocrats, academics, journalists, historians etc of world repute.
Now, what of politics and our nature of politics! How do we really explain our politics. Do we have any politician worth emulating in Kenya of the past and now?
You all know how our politics has evolved for the past four decades, but I wanna put some questions worth asking at this moment of time, given the nature of our politics. Do you agree with me that some of the best Kenyan brains are not in politics?
Put it differently, do you share my view that some of the best independent minded politicians are unable to be in parliament or accend to public offices due to political patronage or euphoric nature of our politics?
I think that time has come to vote in people who can mobilise the grassroots realise their immediate needs and dreams.
America tasted this in Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves at the depth of great recession . He brought hope as he promised fast, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”. Still in America, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X never tired in their great quest to confronting reall challenges of their lifetime.
I think its time for Kenyans Martin Luther King in the name of PLO Lumumba to start sharing his vision for Kenya. I see him as the only capable leader in our time who haave got the mind, charisma and skills to make Kenya a respected nation in the 21st Cenntury.
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Paul Tergat has popuarised Kenya. Tergat has won premier international marathon races i,e Berlin, New York and other major international meets, the so called European Golden Leagues and Grand prix etc. In football, Mike Okoth pioneered and fulfilled Kenyas hunger for a professional soccer player by becoming the first Kenyan to play competitive football in Europe. Dennis Oliech and McDonald Mariga followed suit, but in my own grasp of the sport, I still remember talented players John Okelo Zangi, George Onyango Fundi, Abbas Magongo, Keffa Taso, Wilberforce Mulamba and offcourse Peter Dawo etc.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIs PLO ready to lead Kenya now ? What are you trying to tell us Mr Oduor ? Can you explain yourself further ?
Obote, thank you for commenting on this.
Sir, In your comment I see two words worth responding to. \\READY\\ and the other \\EXPLAIN\\ . OK, I dont know of any force or a god whose job is to make a person ready to lead. Do you know of any?? I dont think that theres any factory where leaders are manufactured to be ready to lead. Theres no such factory in the world. What I know is that, leadership is a rare quality that emerges based on ones ability to relate with the society. To this end, PLO Lumumba, in my humble opinion passes this test.
Arent you aware that the same opinion of NOT ready has been used against another political talent in the name of Barack Obama??
As far as I know, it is not a matter of NOW, PLO.Lumumba is more than experienced to be Kenyas commander in chief. Hes got the colours one needs in a commander in chief. Kenya needs a true leader who understands the fundamentals of breaking the jinx of regression.
This regression has been sufficiently expounded on in the last four and a half decades. What I think is left is the singular opportunity for Kenyans to be true to themselves and finally elect a leader with some degree of quality and talent to push for Kenyas development agenda in the 21st century.
Kenya needs a total overhaul not renovation and patching. We need a leader who can confidently and articulately convey what they mean, not speech readers.
In my opinion, PLO. Lumumba is a gift to Kenya and Africa. He is the only person who can inspire the nation at this moment of time.
I got your point, let us wait and see how, he will go about his ambitions.
Let PATRICK proves himself as a leader first. Leadership is not public speaking alone which
matters.Can PATRICK stand the fire which kenyans witnessed after the rigged GENERAL ELECTION.
It is only men born of steel who could come out and lead in such events.There is no way you can compare Lumumba with Raila. Raila has shaped kenya politics which few people in the world over can do.Raila is in class of his own.
Before you start praising Lumumba ,Mr. Oduor tell him to build his party to be a national party first.He must start from known to unknown.Let Lumumba reads political signs properly so that he can make right decision in the kenya politics.
If we were tojudge people because of their oratory many trade unionists would be MPS.
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History tells me that great leaders all over the world have the ability to communicate their ideas with some degree of ease. And, out of these, only few are NOT orators. Please see the list below. Are they not men worthy of emulating?? In Kenya only PLO Lumumba can match them!
Rank Speaker Title/
1 Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have A Dream”
2 John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Inaugural Address
3 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
First Inaugural Address
4 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation
5 Barbara Charline Jordan
1976 DNC Keynote Address
6 Richard Milhous Nixon. “Checkers”
7 Malcolm X “The Ballot or the Bullet”
8 Ronald Wilson Reagan. Shuttle ”Challenger” Disaster Address
9 John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Houston Ministerial Association Speech
10 Lyndon Baines Johnson. “We Shall Overcome”
11 Mario Matthew Cuomo 1984 DNC Keynote Address
12 Jesse Louis Jackson 1984 DNC Address
13 Barbara Charline Jordan
Statement on the Articles of Impeachment
14 (General) Douglas MacArthur
Farewell Address to Congress
15 Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
16 Theodore Roosevelt
“The Man with the Muck-rake”
17 Robert Francis Kennedy
Remarks on the Assassination of MLK
18 Dwight David Eisenhower Farewell Address
19 Thomas Woodrow Wilson
War Message
20 (General) Douglas MacArthur
“Duty, Honor, Cou
You can also watch this:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/barackobama2004dnc.htm
Are the above orators trade unionists or leaders??
Mr.Oduor,your active campain for Lumumba to replace Raila does not make sense and it is misplaced.There is noway kenyans are going to handover leadership because he can communicate better than some leaders.Lumumba must prove himself to be a leader.Leadership in luoland is not on sale.
If you think that Lumumba can make a wonderful leader let him come out clearly out to solve important issues in luoland and kenya.
What is wrong with Raila to be replaced by Lumumba ?To me ,Raila is a great communicator
and that is why many kenyans are following him because he communicates his ideas effectively.
The issue you are bring of replacing Raila with Lumumba at this time when kenyans need him the most defeats everybody.You and your group must be pursueing a different agenda which is hidden.Please can you and your group come out openly and state to kenyans your problem.
There are many good communicators better than the ones you mention,mr.Odour ,but they were
never leaders.If you want build Lumumba to be a future leader,you should not compare him with
outstanding leaders as Raila.The path you want to follow to build Lumumba as alternative to Raila is very destructive to luos and Lumumba himself.Think twice before you embark on this
path because it is meaningless and will destroy Lumumba politically forever.
Raila is a kenya leader and luos should see him that way.The position is occupying is for all kenyans.We do accept that Raila started as a luo leader but now he is a kenya leader.
Everybody expects Raila to appear and act as a national leader.Luos should leave Raila to serve kenyans impartially,fairly, democratically, independently,and without opportunists influence.We do not Raila to follow blind leadership which Kenyatta,Moi ,and Kibaki discharged by following tribalism as opposed to nationalism.This misplaced leadership is what brought problems the country is experiencing to date.
Kenyans expect Raila to discharge his duties as PM without any influence from opportunists,lobyyists,tribalists,sectionists,and clanists.Kenyans need a break from the old
system of government where sons and daughters of the poor were never considered for any proper jobs.
The time of being close to Raila was a gateway to be elected to any elective posts is long gone.We want leaders to prove their quality,and that is why many luos who were closed to Raila but non performers were voted out in luoland.
Sir, Please re read my article. Yes, as you can see after re-reading it, I am not saying that PLO. Lumumba should replace Raila. I dont believe in leadership being handed over to anyone and I think you’ll agree with me that Kenyan politics are changing at a very terrific speed for this style. What I am saying is that, I believe in PLO. Lumumba’s leadership skills. Yes, I believe there are many things that Raila has done, or good at, but this doesn’t mean that he’s been perfect!! There are numerous shortfalls, sir!!
I think luos should consentrate on matters that can help them every article that a writen by aluo consenrates on politcs rather than development I do wonder where we originated from.
Realy where on earth does succesion of Raila Odinga come from,first the man is still strong to lead us today tomorrow and even after tomorrow so let’s ask ourselves how we can develop N
Our ethnic diversities have been used and transformed from being a cultural strength of our society to a political weakness that threatens our very existence. We have failed to recognize that the colonial rulers perfected the art of exacerbating and transforming diversity into conflict, only for their benefit. The current crops of leaders have been plagued with the same old politics and are stuck in the status quo. For that reason they have too much political baggage that will haunt them for a long time. Time that we don’t have!
It is time for Kenyans to look for fresh leaders outside of the current spectrum, Selfless individuals that will focus on improving the living standards of the average Kenyan and grow a strong middle class that is the backbone of any prosperous society. We must seek to elect leaders that are responsible and ones that take responsibility for their actions. Leaders that stand for the truth even though it may render them unpopular. Leaders that put the country first and I second!
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