Kenya failed state ranking

FAIL STATE RATING SHOULD BE A WAKE UP CALL FOR KENYA.

Kenya has done well to thrash eight other African countries in the failed states ranking for the 2009.Somalia,Zimbabwe,Sudan,Chad,DRC,the Central Africa Republic,Gunea and Ivory cost are the other only African countries that were considered worst than Kenya. Within the Kenya range are countries such as Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan and Burma. While this is not very good news, there is a strident
call for Kenya to rethink on the national pride that Kenyans have held for many years. Is Kenya still, or rather has it ever been the peaceful democratic country it swanks of?

The nerve-racking decline of Kenyan state from position 34 in 2006, through position 31 and 26 in 2007 and 2008 respectively, and to position 14 in 2009 demands for urgent measures and it must be done now.

Scholarly and sceptical as many Kenyans are, some will argue that the Fund for peace
is not African or rather Kenyan and thus have a perverted look at issues from the Western world lenses. While this could be true, to some sense, the feeling of the common Kenyan concurs with this rating. What Western lens is it in the corruption cases that are not brought to account? What Western lens is it on the dragging of the
prosecution of those involved in the election violence? Is it a western lens to note that close to two years the displaced people are still in camps? Is it western lens to note the increased insecurity and extrajudicial killings? Is it Western lens to read poverty ravaging people at an alarming rate never witnessed before? What is it about the transactional leadership’s problems, which has entrenched tribalism and chronism.Is that too a western lens?

If we can content that the ranking is based on Western lenses, then we should allow Somalia or Iraq too to refute claims that they are failed states. The ranking which are based on 12 indices around social, ecomonic and political factors are objective and unbiased. Dispassionately speaking, the revelation should shake Kenya from its
drowsiness to the reality.
The basic responsibility of extricating Kenya from this state of affairs falls squarely on our governance.