Freedom: A matter of WHY not WHAT

I am yet to find out whether Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United states of America was a theologian or a biblical scholar. Be it as it may, my dilemma is based on his all-time veracious qoute: 'There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.' His qoute corresponds with the scriptures recorded in the book of St Matthew 6:1, 'Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them.' 'If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.'
The worst occurrences that we have continued to experience to this day from most if not all activists is a dire need for recognition, fame, publicity and monetary gain in reference to humanitarianism.
It's very unfortunate that, in today's world, vast majority of the so called activists who identify themselves as humanists are self-indulgent individuals whose objective is only to feed their insatiable greed for fame and money, possessions notwithstanding.
Even though Paul wasn't a prophet, his true allegiance to God proffered his profound wisdom. My claim is evident through the wisdom loaded words he inked in his second letter to his mentee Timothy. 'But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. Stay away from such people.' 2nd Timothy 3:1-5
These scriptures begs the question: In whose terms did you respond to your calling of serving humanity? Most people who establish nonprofit organizations in the name of serving humanity respond to a calling if any on their own terms that are suitable to feed their greed of terrestrial achievements.
In the gospel of St John 8:32, 'You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.' The greatest decision that can usher you to a life of perpetual freedom and profound happiness is the choice of being true to self. It's inarguably true that you can deceive everyone but yourself.
I totally agree that you're an assiduous  person and a conscientious hardworking activist who have always been in the forefront on matters humanitarianism. You spend restless days and sleepless nights thinking of how you can positively change the lives of the underprivileged. Nonetheless, the question still remains: Why do you do all these things? What you do can only be right if you do it without an ill motive. With ulterior motive, all you do is in vain. Freedom is not a matter of WHAT you do, it's a matter of WHY you do it. Motive is equally better if not more better than the deed.
As you put in long hours in humanitarianism or in whatever ways you extend your helping hand to the needy, just be advised that; however sympathetic or empathetic your deeds might be, with ulterior motive, (s) your help can only accord you self-abasement in place of freedom.
In a dire quest for freedom and happiness, you must ask yourself this intriguing question; Am I chasing power, possessions and publicity in the name of fulfilling my purpose? After all is said and done, it's worth noting that: Legends are born out of ascendancy of nobility over ignobility and their legacy is eventually realized.


 

LIVING A LIE

A while back, I wrote a blog namely: Me, Myself and I mindset. This is the kind of selfish mentality that contrives to living a lie. In exercise of my full force of cognitive thoughts, kindly allow me to refer you to a biblical compendium recorded by St Luke in Acts 5:1-10. Luke narrates to us the story of Ananias and his wife Sapphira who upon selling their piece of land lied to Apostle Peter on the money they had collected. Their lies led to their subsequent deaths on that very day.   

It's very unfortunate that we are living in the days where human beings have become so dishonest that you can hardly trust anyone including your spouse. Even though the present day high levels of  dishonesty are yet to contrive to physical deaths, (some already have) they have killed uncountable relationships and marriages.
The foundation that marks the inception of most if not all of todays marriages is lies. Most married couples are living with total strangers in their homes in the name of a husband or wife because their 'marriage' was established on a foundation of lies. But why is this happening? The answer to this very intriguing question is; since most people are in marriages to serve their selfish interests, they have to live a lie in the name of love in order to conceal their true identity of selfishness. These people have an insatiable appetite of receiving but will hardly extend their hand to give.

As long as you keep meeting their needs, they don't care about you or your needs. While your objective is to have a happy, healthy and a lovely marriage where reciprocity in equity contrives equality, they only heed to the needs that feed their greed. To them, you are just but a bridge towards the fulfillment of their selfish gains.

Selfishness goes hand in hand with pride and that's why selfish people will hardly apologize whenever they are wrong. On the other hand, they are lovers of money, fame, publicity, high lifestyles and material possessions and they can do anything to achieve these things. That's why they are serial liars and cheaters to a great extent. To them, too much is never enough. 
Unfortunately, most people who fall victim of such marriages are honest people who are true to self and true to their spouses as they hold a high level of transparency and accountability. 

To demystify the centuries old belief that marriage is a 50/50 union, in great marriages, both the husband and the wife will sometimes outdo each other depending on one's ability and acumen in certain areas of the marriage and life in general. Both of them must attend to their marital duties and responsibilities though not necessarily in equal measures. The sense of selfishness kicks in when either the husband or the wife thinks that he or she is there to be served without any reciprocity or responsibility whatsoever. 

Noting that living a lie is attributed to selfishness, a selfish spouse will open a bank account behind your back, lie about his or her income so that he or she can accumulate savings in that very secret bank account and always make sure that your income is used to the last penny in meeting all the needs of the family lest you save a coin. These are the people who will never ever help their spouse whenever he or she is financially stuck or otherwise. They operate under the famous selfish slogan, 'my money is mine but your money is ours.' 

If you are reading this blog and I am addressing the very situation you're going through, kindly be advised that; If your problem (s) isn't your spouse problem, your marriage is a problem.
In reference to the saying, 'when we all meet to give, everybody receives,' the question I beg to ask is: "Why are you in a marriage to receive without giving?" To anyone who is in a marriage to receive without giving, your selfishness is the number one cause of the problems in your marriage. Your selfishness does not only portray laziness since you can't meet your spouse needs, it also depicts a master versus slave setup where you are the master to be served while your spouse is the slave.
Times without number i've said that marriages aren't for selfish people. Even though you are getting married to be served by your spouse, that thought must be secondary to the primary thought of you serving your spouse relentlessly. The bible clearly says that then two shall become one. The question then remains, "why have you allowed your selfishness to subject your marriage to living a separate life marked with total dishonesty?"
If you are that selfish spouse, as you continue to get your every needs met by your angelic spouse who understands the true meaning of marriage and have chosen to live an honest life and to have unabated commitment in meeting your needs, please be advised that life doesn't have a vacuum. The more you fail to meet his or her needs, the further you're pushing him or her from yourself. One day when push comes to shove, your spouse who you've for a long time treated like a slave will get fed up by your selfishness and the marriage will be no more.
With or without closure, when you decide to leave your selfish spouse, don't be surprised if he or she comes begging for reconciliation. I am neither a prophet nor am I a clairvoyance but when that moment comes, please be advised that your selfish spouse desire to reconcile will totally be out of his or her self-interest of getting his or her cash-cow back and not about changing his or her selfish ways for a happy marriage.

Oh how I wish that I had an instant resolve for the victims who have fallen into the hands of selfish spouses. It's very unfortunate that selfishness is an inherent problem that's attributed to self-importance. Even though you can never ever talk your selfish spouse out of that detrimental vice, he or she can decide to change. With that change humility, honesty and generosity will be realized. 

To the selfish people I say: "Never push a loyal person to a point where they no longer care." I rest my case.

Was he or she your best friend to begin with?

The year was 1990 when Keith Wonderboy Johnson released his gospel track; Let go and let God. Fourteen years later in 2004, Hezekiah Walker followed suit when he released a track with the very same title, 'Let go and let God.' Things didn't stop there because twelve years later, Paul S. Morton decided not to copy and paste the same title although the title of his 2016 track, 'I let go, I let God' came too close to the two previous titles. 
Unfortunately, the words 'let go and let God' are easier said than done. Nonetheless, if you are in a dire quest of a healthy longevity, you don't have any other choice but to adhere to this phrase 'let go and let God, ' regardless of how impossible it seems. Yes it's painful but it's important. According to prophet Jeremiah; This is what the LORD says: “Cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the LORD." Jeremiah 17:5
Times without number, we have been told that love is the foundation of every great marriage. This is a centuries old mindset that I beg to differ with. As much as I believe that love is the greatest commandment as per the teachings of Christ, on matters marriage, love takes the second position while friendship occupies the throne. 
You may urge it otherwise till the cows come home but one among the three causes of present day marriage distegration is marrying someone who isn't your best friend. I am not talking of a comrade here, i am talking of a friend whom David in Proverbs 18:24 says that he or she sticks closer than a brother. I am referring to a confidant whom David refers to in Proverbs17:17 ; 'A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.' 
It's extremely imperative to understand that love develops out of genuine friendship and not vice versa. Without a smidgen fear of contradiction I've the audacity to say that; friendship is the fundamental foundation of every great marriage not love.
Noting that we have three different types of friends namely; a comrade, (temporal-illusory friend) a constituent, (seasonal-capricious friend) and a confidant (permanent-genuine friend) it's very important to weigh you friends and know which category each one of them belongs. Since friendship is the greatest social capital in life, (or it's supposed to be) it's primary objective is to add value in your life. If you have people in your life whom you consider to be your friends but they don't add any value in your life, kindly think twice about that friendship  lest you continue wasting your precious time with the wrong people who have an insatiable appetite of taking but will never ever give. 
This principle is applicable in marriages too. Marrying or getting married to someone who isn't your best friend is close if not equal to signing your own death certificate. The next worst thing that can happen to a human being apart from missing heaven is to be in a wrong marriage. If my problem is not your problem and vice versa, our marriage is in a problem. 

It's very important to know that; the greatest virtues that are needed in a marriage don't develop out of love. True friendship is the inception and the  nurturance of trust, honesty, unabated commitment, sacrifice, humility, generosity and the like, love is only an additive. 
Now that you have allowed stress and depression to take toll on your health out of days and months of restless days and sleepless nights just overthinking about a 'spouse' who proudly and selfishly walked out of your life after using you to achieve his or her selfish gain, do you honestly think that he or she was your BEST FRIEND?
I choose to be honest with you and tell you the bitter truth; to him or her,  'marriage' was a bridge towards fulfilling his or her selfish and manipulative gains and to lift his/her pride. That's why he or she decided to demolish the bridge after his or her achievement. To you, 'marriage' with that selfish and egocentric narcissist was a school of life. Now that the syllabus is well covered, it's your time to graduate and move on. The only thing you must do to him or her is to forgive for the sake of your happy and a healthy future. Although life lessons come with difficult experiences, every bit of them is worth what's awaiting.

In life, we don't meet people by accident or happenstance, they are meant to cross our path for a reason, a season or both. If a relationship doesn't stand the test of time, it doesn't mean that it wasn't meant to be. Not all encounters with people are meant to last forever.  Sometimes people are in our lives to teach us something. Sometimes the forever isn't the person but the lesson we learn from them. 
On the other hand, it's always important to know that there isn't anything that happens in your life without God's knowledge. None of your life's dreadful experiences have ever taken God by surprise. That's why He says that He can't subject you to temptations that you cannot overcome. Since God is supernatural, in your unhealthy state of lamentation and overthinking, it's worthy knowing that; God saw something you didn't see, heard something you didn't hear and He knows something you don't know. That's why He saved you from that dreadful marriage. What about this amazing scriptures; 'There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.' Proverbs 14:12
Now that the 'marriage' is over, kindly don't perceive yourself a failure, that was a lesson in life, and since the best gold has to go through fire, you now have what it takes to establish and nurture a happy, healthy, lovely and long-lasting marriage whenever time will be at your exposure. 

Finally, I don't want to leave you without the answer to our question; Was he or she your best friend to begin with?  The answer is; NO, he or she was not. He/ she was in your life to feed her greed and sate her needs out of selfishness contrived by; me, myself and I mindset. That's why he/she left you without a smidgen thought of how you helped him or her to positively change his or her life. 

As you comprehend to start another relationship with marriage in mind, kindly remember that; the only two friends you must consider are; A genuine friend (confidant) who can stick with you through thick and thin, a genuine friend who will always have your best interests at heart. The other friend who will never  ever leave you or foresake you is God. He will always sail you through life challenges. And for that 'spouse' who left you, kindly let go and let God. 

LEADERSHIP: A DIVINE CALLING NOT AN INHERITANCE

I believe i am not the only person who times without number have heard this phrase, ' like father like son.' While it's inarguably true that we inherit genes from our parents, leadership isn't an inherited disposition but a divine calling that must be nurtured for fruation .
The greatest problem that have continued to vitiate the minds of most Kenyans is the mentality that you can become a leader just because your father was a ruler.
Kindly allow me to give you a perfect analogical example that will help you understand my conscious force of reason. The bible says; 'Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.' Mark 10:9 

This is a scripture whose objective is to warn a third party from disintegrating a marriage joined by God. These scriptures notwithstanding, what we fail to understand is that ; not all marriages are joined by God.
The above scenario is applicable when it comes to leadership. Times without number I have heard people say that we shouldn't raise a finger to our leaders since they are appointed by God. In the same manner that some marriages aren't joined by God, not all leaders are appointed by God. That's why the ones that aren't appointed by God are so insensitive to humanity as they rule us with an iron fist instead of exercising servanthood-leadership on us.
In my motherland to be precise, most of the so called leaders are just but rulers who are power drunken with a sole objective of feeding their insatiable greed. Their quest for leadership has nothing to do with improving the lives and livelihoods of the ordinary people but a golden opportunity to enrich themselves through the taxpayer's money. That's why becoming a politician in Kenya is a matter of life and death. In the words of Michela Wrong, 'it's our turn to eat.'
When the founding father of our neighboring country Tanzania,  the late mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere said that Kenya is a man eat man nation, he was right. And when Josiah Mwangi Kariuki popularity known as JM said that Kenya is a nation of 10 millionaires and 10 million beggars, he too was right.
Getting back to our neighbor Tanzania, we have a lot to learn from them. After the fierce struggle that liberated Tanzania from colonialism on 9th December 1961, as a true leader, mwalimu Julius Nyerere took an initiative of uniting the 120 tribes in Tanzania to one united nation. Today, despite having 120 tribes, Tanzania is an enthicity free country. On the other hand, unlike most of the African presidents, he never saw the need of clinging onto power. In 1985, he relinquished his post voluntarily saying that he was paving way for new leadership and new ideologies. To this day, neither his children, nor the children of the other four presidents who came after him have ever run for presidency in Tanzania.
This is a valid proof that leadership isn't a  matter of inheritance but a divine calling that must be nurtured and proven through a track record of servanthood that changes people's lives and livelihoods way before running for a public office. Although we have previously made a mistake of perceiving leadership to be an inheritance and voted the wrong people into leadership positions, kindly let's not repeat this costly mistake again. Once bitten twice shy.
If Tanzanian is a far distance to learn from, we can learn from Mwai Kibaki who was the 3rd president of our beloved motherland and so far the very best president that Kenya have ever had. This is a great man who came from a humble background and greatly changed the economy of Kenya to a middle income economy within five years of his presidency. 
It's very unfortunate that we have eyes but we don't see, ears but we don't hear. Failed leadership cannot be salvaged by BBI. Unless we become true to ourselves, we will continue to change our constitution instead of changing our mindset. Likewise, we will continue to vote more politicians to power instead of demanding the present ones to serve us efficiently and effectively.
"Every Kenyan man, woman and child is entitled to a decent and just living. That is a birthright. It is not a privilege." Even though these true words of JM may have costed his life, hitherto, we have no choice but to speak true to power. As we come closer to the 2022 general elections, my question remains; will you vote a leader with a track record of serving Kenyans relentlessly or will you vote a son or a daughter of a former someone? Although the choice is all yours, kindly be informed that choices have consequences. 

JOHN JOSEPH POMBE MAGUFULI: A TRUE LEADER NOT A POLITICIAN

Born to a peasant farmer on 29th day of October 1959 in Chato villige along the shores of lake Victoria in Tanganyika which is present day Tanzania, Dr. John Joseph Pombe Magufuli, aka Bulldozer/ JPM was raised by a single mother after his father's demise while JPM was a young boy. His poor upbringing not withstanding, he became an iconic visionary and a servant leader who has set an extremely high presidency threshold in Tanzania and indeed in the entire continent of Africa.
As a bachelor's, masters and doctrate degree holder, JPM started off as a high school teacher and then an industrial chemist who would later become a member of parliament, an assistant minister and then a minister in different government dockets and eventually get elected on October 2015 to become the 5th president of the republic of Tanzania.
Without any doubt whatsoever, JPM was a visionary and servant leader who slowly but surely climbed the ladder of leadership with total leadership acumen leaving a great legacy in every step of his way, his presidency notwithstanding.
Tha fact that he was a locally sourced leader with both integrity and intelligence and never left Africa to any western country for further studies is something we Africans should learn from. The lesson is; Africa has the potential of producing highly educated people and nurturing great morals and ethics if we liberate ourselves from mediocrity and mental slavery that makes us think that nothing good can come out of Africa.  JPM was a living proof of my claim since he was a visionary and a servant leader who earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees locally in the university of Dares Salaam plus an honorary doctorate from the university of Dodoma for appreciably improving the economy of Tanzania. In myriad cases, most people who leave mother Africa to study aboard develop a certain kind of laxity and a negative perception that hinder them from going back home to apply the acquired knowledge towards improving mother Africa. My fellow Africans in the diaspora, mother Africa is calling. 
JPM was a president who saw no need of holding public holidays which would cost taxpayers an arm and a leg. His idea saw the cancellation of independence day celebrations where he declared it a national clean-up day and requested Tanzanians to spend the day cleaning up their cities and towns. The photo taken while he was collecting trash within the vicinity of the state house went viral,  trending with a hashtag #whatwouldMagufulido. By canceling foreign trips for government officials and declaring that government meetings should be held in state buildings in place of expensive hotels, he was able to save 429 million dollars annually. And for those who might have missed his big three agenda memo, the man was out to intensively fight corruption, laziness and excessive bureaucracy without fear or favour. Making incognito raids in government offices was habitual. His raids saw myriad civil servants fired for absenteeism, laxity, dishonesty and unprofessionalism. It didn't matter whether you were a sacrosanct government official or not. If he deemed you to be a dereliction, your goose was cooked. Any nonperformer government official who had mysteriously escaped what was dubbed as 'operation squeeze the boil,' (not the Samidoh version ) during JPM's surprise office raids, there wasn't a safe haven for you. Sooner or later, you had to brace multitude shame of being fired in public. Unlike my former late president of 24 years who had the audacity to hire and fire government officials of different ranks on the roadside for his own political interests, JPM did so out of visionary and servant-hood leadership and for a progressive welfare and the best interest of his fellow Tanzanians.
From corrupt civil servants to ghost workers who were costing the government of Tanzania a sum of 2 million dollars per month, not a single one of them was wise enough to escape JPM's scythe.
His leadership was neither rhetorical nor theoretical, it was a practical, visionary and servant-hood leadership that brought a total transformation in the lives of Tanzanians. From free primary and high school education to free healthcare  for the elderly, relentless fight against drug trafficking, construction of roads, bridges, railways and port, tax collection reform among others, his government had zero tolerance in laziness, corruption and inefficiency and ineffective service delivery to the citizens. In his fullness of power, he never believed that he was a politician. He perceived himself as a servant of the people who cared less about honorable titles. His persona portrayed humility at its best. 

Nonetheless, it goes without saying that; no matter how great you are, you cannot please everyone. To put it in a biblical context; 'He came to his own and his own rejected him.' John 1:11.
Unfortunately, just like Jesus, JPM wasn't an exception to this scriptures. He had a legion of critics. While his supporters believed that the country had been in shambles for the longest and that he was a God sent leader to transform their lives and livelihood together with the lives of future generations, his critics perceived him as a dictator.
From my school of conscious thoughts, I can understand the critics argument. Most of them were beneficiaries of corruption from the previous governments who were robbed the luxury of self-enrichment through embezzlement of taxpayer's money which was a total unethical act that had for years impoverished Tanzanians. 
If remaining adamant on the issues of fighting the decades old unethical dragon namely corruption is dictatorship, I am hesitant to accord his critics their biased dues but hasty to let them know that; democracy isn't a matter of one size fits all. 

As the world mourns JPM, the people of the republic of Tanzania and the rest of the 54 African States are also mourning the loss of a true PanAfrican leader who served as the chairman of Southern African Development Community. We however mourn him with mixed thoughts of heartfelt gratitude for a life well lived and on the other hand, we have a deep concern whether Africa will ever have another leader of his kind. Indeed, he was the new sheriff in town.

Although the future of Africa looks grim in the absence of JPM, I am so confident that; he fought a good fight, he finished the race and he kept the faith. 

FARE THEE WELL PATRIOT. 

HANDOUT MINDSET

Times without number I have said that; the greatest battles are won or lost between your ears. It doesn't matter how often you get motivated or by whom, every moment your mind perceive a defeat mentality, your entire body registers failure spontaneously.
Although fleeing oneself from mediocrity is extremely demanding, I beg to differ with Michel de Montaigne who once said, "Poverty of goods is easily cured but poverty of the mind is irreparable.” Although it's inarguably true that a defeat mindset begets poverty, with a visionary mind and relentless efforts, success awaits. 

In other words; poverty is just but a defeat mindset. The moment you shall believe without a smidgen doubt the words that apostle Paul used when he addressed the Christian church in Philippi; 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,' Philippians 4:13 that's the moment you shall begin to free your mind from mediocrity.
One mediocre mindset that we have to free ourselves from is the handouts mindset. The fact that we have baptized it with a more enticing name; bursary dosen't exclude it from being a handout. School bursaries are just but handouts that have fostered a mediocre mindset among many Africans for decades. Having a mindset that you can't afford to educate your children unless the government helps is a mediocre mentality. Unfortunately, most of us are now victims of our own mediocre mindset and our politicians can now lure us with ease into voting for them through school bursaries and endless empty promises. The truth of the matter is; the government is never interested in positively improving the economic policies that will create jobs lest we become economically independent and rob our politicians their 'golden chance' of extorting public funds to enrich themselves and to bribe us in the name of handouts so that we can vote them into their political seats for a continuous cycle of extortion and corruption. 

To my American friends who can't relate with bursaries, i am sure you can relate with food stamps that most recipients perceive as a way of efficiency in executing government policies but fail to understand that; food stamps are great enticements that render you to a comfort zone and restrain you from applying your full force of reason on how you can liberate yourself from mediocrity to greatness. In other words, just like bursaries, food stamps robs you the ability to think of your greatness and your remarkable potential of how daring you must be to step out of the confines of mediocrity into luxuriation of greatness. 
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. While politicians don't like the latter part of this qoute, they are so passionate about the former part since it's the part that they have for a very long time used to render their empty promises in order to feed their greed of being voted into office. My interpretation of this qoute is; every time you allow someone to give you a livelihood rather than teaching you how to earn a living, you render that person the power to determine when you are hungry, what and when to feed you. In other words, you subject your life and that of your family under his or her mercy.

It's extremely unfortunate that this is the life that most people lead on daily basis. We have given our so called leaders too much 'power' because of our mediocre mindset and they have for a very long time continued to take advantage of our mediocrity by impoverishing us and later  giving us smidgen handouts from the same resources they extort from us. 

As much as politicians aren't angels who should walk scot free on all ill matters of their failed leadership, I am raising awareness on our laxity that have continued to hold us in a 'comfort zone' regardless of our mediocrity. 
Noting that we are living in the days where most people are upgrading their smartphones now and then, why are we so reluctant to renew their mindset as often as we do with our gadgets? Just like the biblical words in Romans 12:2; '..... but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.' 'Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God,' if you have a pressing need to transform your life, you must first transform your mind. In other words, transformation of your mind is the first step towards the transformation of your life lest you live in mediocrity. 
On the other hand, transforming your mind becomes easier when you have long-term challenging goals that keeps you on your toes. In a comfort zone, there's no growth but mediocrity. You must always subject yourself to challenges in order to develop yourself. If your dreams for success don't scare you, they're too easy to achieve and mostly likely they are just moderate. I do believe that; failure is not aiming high and missing, it's aiming low and hitting.
It's also extremely imperative to know that transforming your mind is a personal responsibility not a collective one. Nonetheless, choosing the right friends who will constantly challenge your thoughts is a great way to help you in transforming your mind. You're an average of the five people whom you hangout with. If your friends aren't challenging your thoughts, your life is in a stagnation. It's time to break that friendship and make new friends who can positively challenge your thoughts and keep your mind engaged. 

BBI (BLINDED BY IGNORANCE)

"When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change my town either, and as an older man, I tried to change my family."
"Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that, if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town, my town's impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world." By Monk-11 A. D.
Even though the above conscious thought which is loaded with vast wisdom dating back to 11 A.D. is still inspirational to this day, the fact that this advice eminated from a monk portrays ambiguity of both wisdom and regrets.
Learning that he could have first changed his mindset before trying to change the world is a great lesson that contrived this wisdom loaded advice. To his regret, he learned a lesson at an old age meaning that he couldn't recover the time he had already wasted.
Noting that fools learn from their own mistakes while erudites do it from other people's mistakes, oh how I wish that; just like myself, this monk's mistake have taught you a lesson on the need to first change your mindset before you embark on a trajectory to change the world.
While our so called leaders have intentionally been blind to the plight of ordinary Kenyans for far too long, we have also been blinded by our own ignorance and that's why we never hold them accountable for neglecting their constitution mandated responsibilities of serving Kenyans relentlessly.
Out of our own ignorance, these selfish 'leaders' have now taken advantage of mutilating the constitution and they have the audacity to deceive us that they are doing so for our own good.
Although it's inarguably true that a great percentage of my fellow citizens are well educated people, it's extremely unfortunate because our knowledge have not brought any change for the longest. This is a clear indication that; intelligence without integrity is futile. In a more simplistic way; knowledge without wisdom is useless. That's why despite of our immense knowledge, we can't resonate with a commonsense issue like being aware that; Adding 70 more members of parliament and creating five new positions in the executive will automatically add a heavier burden of footing an enormous wage bill to the already heavily laden Kenyans.
In order to foot the proliferated wage bill in the BBI, there must be an increase on revenue. This begs the question; WHERE WILL THE INCREASED REVENUE COME FROM? The answer to this question isn't a matter of rocket science but an issue of commonsense. THEY WILL RUTHLESSLY CONTINUE TO OVERTAX US. Without perusing the entire BBI document, the fact that we will knowingly but ignorantly subject ourselves to higher taxes makes BBI a malicious and a devious plan to advance personal interests and simultaneously nurture a few individual's sense of self-entitlement. 
In his Solomonic wisdom, this are the words of Winston Churchill; " A nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
When moments of total ignorance from Kenyans are at hand as it is now, I inadvertently find myself quoting the great words of wisdom from the 32nd first lady of United States madam Eleanor Roosevelt; 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.'
The naked truth is; we have ourselves to blame for our total ignorance. Indeed, we have for a very long time allowed our 'leaders' to manipulate us to a point that we are now brainwashed to a point where we perceive them as demigods whose tune we must dance to unquestionably as we continue to live in extreme indigence. Whenever they ask us to jump, instead of asking WHY, we 'innocently' ask; HOW HIGH? Infact, we are the people in the biblical reference; 'Listen, you foolish and senseless people, with eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear....Jeremiah 5:21 Just like the boers,(Afrikaans) our so called leaders have for decades continued to impoverish us in order to forever rule us. The most vexatious thing is how they take advantage of our ignorance to effectively manipulate us. 

Out of his ingenuity, Bob Marley once said this words; "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds." If anything, His three decades old words of wisdom tells us that; each one of us have a personal responsibility to redeem his or her conscious mind lest we fail in our collective responsibility of liberating our beloved motherland from decades of tyrannical rule.

Unless you are a visitor in Kenya, you know very well that we are deficient of servant and visionary leaders but surfeit with selfish, corrupt and power hungry politicians in the name of leaders whose agenda is to sate their greed for power and opulence. That's why amidst covid-19 and medic's strike, their concern is how more positions of power will be created for them to continue to rule over us. Our government times without number have approved the words of Ronald Reagan; "The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other."
Turning to the word of God; Then Jesus gave the following illustration: “Can one blind person lead another? Won’t they both fall into a ditch? Luke 6:39 While most of our leaders are blind to the plight of ordinary Kenyans, we on the other hand are blind to their evil strategies of impoverishing us for their gain. 
In their selfish quest to change the constitution, please be advised that; they can keep on changing the constitution every year if they so wish, but their unsustainable greed for power and their unwillingness to honor the constitution at hand are a crystal-clear indication that; NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES THEY  COERCE US INTO CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION, THEIR CONCEIT AND LACK OF GOODWILL TO HONOR THE CONSTITUTION WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL. 

In other words, any person who lacks self-discipline to necessitate a sense of responsibility to support, obey, uphold, defend and protect the very constitution he or she vowed allegiance to when he took the oath of office, but out of his or her sense of superiority complex, ignorance, self-importance, ego, pride or whatever other reason decides to dishonor the constitution, that person is a recusant and is not fit for leadership whatsoever. 
As we await for the referendum with mixed feelings and anticipation, kindly liberate yourself from the blindness of ignorance and remember that; the mouth that consumed the seedlings will be the same mouth that will ask; what will I sow? Please don't be an enemy of your own and always remember the wise words of Albert Einstein; 'Insanity is doing the same thing, the same way, over and over, but expecting different results.' Before you consider changing the constitution, first consider changing your mindset because that's the root cause of all the problems.