We have had enough of these strikes and hooliganism in our colleges and universities.
Nowadays, it is not only the students engaging in strikes but also the teachers as witnessed recently when they took to the streets to demand a pay rise.
If it is not the teachers, then it’s the nurses, doctors, the public or sex workers demonstrating either for being mistreated or delayed payment.
Kenya has become a hotbed of strikes and demonstrations to the extent that it is no longer news to mwananchi that some workers have downed their tools as a sign of not being appreciated either by the government or their employers.
It has become a norm if to the government that it no longer cares about who strikes, if it says there is no money, that’s it.
We have seen parents suffering a great deal to the extent of paying for what students have damaged during riots and looting in institutions be it secondary or institutions of higher learning.
When students act as they do, they don’t consider how much their parents have invested in them or how much sacrifice they are making to see them get quality education for the betterment of their future.
As for medical practitioners, they actually don’t take into consideration the precious lives of patients who innocently and desperately visit hospitals to seek medication oblivious of the hard times the health stakeholders are giving nurses and doctors.
This is how many people end up losing lives in hospital beds.
Teachers too will throw away their pieces of chalk and put their books away not minding of the children who are thirsty for knowledge.
The leaders of tomorrow who have no say to the government and if they had the chance, they could have gone to the president and personally asked him to increase the teachers’ salary not only by 50 to 60 percent but even by over 200.
If that could be the only way to solve their tutors issue for good.
All said and done, our institutions and organisations should come together and seek a noble and amicable way of resolving burning issues in a manner that innocent fellows are not adversely affected by their actions.
It should be a method that prompts a call to action but in the modest way possible.
Only then will Kenyans be proud of democracy in their country and proudly announce to the world that they are celebrating their 52nd year of self rule and independence and still counting without fear of contradiction.