Do the Kenyans Know the meaning of Democracy

The word democracy from a Britannica dictionary is stated as, "The government of the people by the people". These words are famously known as the words which were said by the renown president of the United States of America , Abraham Lincoln at a burial of American soldiers. The dictionary further elaborates that, Democracy in a state puts equality on all the citizens of the country. This also shows that it is for the people who respect their political power. In a world of democracy, the minor group which does not take the say, they are supposed to keep quiet and take the voice of the majority. This is not what have happened in our country for the last fifty years that elections have been done. 

If you tract the history of our country, after every five years, there is someone taken to court for accusation that, they stole votes in the past election. This have happened continuously except the year 2007 when no one went to court. This resulted in a big trouble that shook the Kenyan lands to the roots. The looser decided to take advantage of the Kenyans' ignorance and solve it on the streets. This is what really presented the real picture of the kinds of citizens that the country of Kenya is made of. If someone could have thought that you can move into any part of this nation and live there as if you are home, they were warned and given a history to warn their children after them. The big guys just kept quiet as their royals were butchered and lost everything that they had worked for over the long lives that they had lived at those places. The voice was uttered as it has been done before that Democracy is on trial. My question is, was it democracy which was on trial or it was individuals who thought that they are always right. 

If this is what was meant by the government of the people by the people, a fear to declare that it would have been better to be ruled by a dictator that values human life than to have democracy. After all, it might result into preservation of more life than when we fight and loose our lives for democracy. The founder of democracy meant that, people should compare the leadership ability of the people they elect and then choose the best out of them. For the Kenyan condition, we choose people; first on the condition of tribe, two on the condition of their historical background and others follow after that. This is the reason why it have been so violent when "the democracy of the people of Kenya" have made some people loose, they get back to the law of the jungle of trying to solve it physically. 

If our seniors who we call the corrector s of the government keep throwing abusive language onto our leaders, i fear what the illiterate Kenyans can do if they were presented with a chance to do something. The condition in which we live make one peace loving person feel like running away from this nation and never coming back again.