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Government of The People, by The People, for The People
About this event: GLOBAL YOUTH FORUM ON DEVELOPMENT 2008
Related to country: Kenya

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The phrase from Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg address, ‘that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth’ remains a telling reminder of the proper role, constitution, and function of government. Yet Lincoln himself was party to setting in motion a process that would increase the power of the US federal government and diminish the power of the states, so reducing America’s ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’.

African governments have blamed the past colonial powers for many sins to divert attention away from the atrocities and other injustices they have committed against their own people. Significantly they never blame them for their greatest residual injustice to the continent’s people; that of leaving behind a deadly legacy of constitutional and government structures that have led, as night follows day, to strife, war and unnecessary deaths. The pernicious legacy the colonialists left behind was unrestrained centralised power; the kind of power they believed was needed ‘to keep the natives in line’. How could they admit to having governed in a tyrannical fashion, an admission they would have had to make, in order to, prior to departure, transform their despotic rule by creating the essential institutions of truly free societies? By Eustace Davie

When will the people have there say as they say it?


March 4, 2008 | 3:43 AM Comments  1 comments

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nambi nambi
March 6, 2008 | 7:29 AM
kenya's crisis
i would like to agree with Auma from about the claims that its the people's government. its us who suffer we the common man those who lead to the countries troubles just leave the country to us to suffer.

i would like to appeal to all the kenyans that however much they fight and destroy everything they will always be kenyans no matter when and where.

destroying everything will also lead to over taxation inorder to cover up the losses incured.
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