Mike Ratemo @PeopleDailyKe
The themes of illiteracy and bad choices yesterday dominated day two of the ongoing music fete with various presenters blaming them for undermining the fight against corruption and ethnicity in the country.
Pupils at the annual Kenya National Music Festival in Nairobi held the audience captive with their presentations that dwelled on slaying the dragons of graft, impunity and tribalism that bedevil their beloved country.
Andrew Kiprotich from Sally Ann Primary school, Nakuru region riveted the adjudicators and audience alike with his public speaking piece, “What I hate”.
He rolled out a chronological account of how the country’s elections cycle was the main catalyst of endemic corruption. He denounced illiteracy among the electorate saying it makes vulnerable to manipulation by conniving politicians, who come to them with lofty promises in the name of serving them only turn into public coffers pests to satiate their appetites and fail to deliver on their mandates.
Another moving presentation was from Geraldine Nyambura from Mwea Brethren, Kirinyaga who in her “All children should go to school”, extolled the parents to educate children because “it’s the right tool for making good choices.
Nyambura said young people need good role models, who can guide them to the right direction as tomorrow’s leaders. She denounced divisive leaders, who she advised to “cut their loose tongues” for being wrong role models and polluting the youth’s minds.
She attributed the rot in schools saying reckless actions and utterances by rogue leaders were to blame for the unrest in learning institutions.
Nyambura added that the youth practice what they see and hear from the leaders. Westgate Primary School from Aberdares region aptly captured the country’s incessant political conflicts in their choral verse piece titled; “Life’s mirror”.
They won accolades from the audience with a clinical delivery of how Kenyans shoot themselves in the foot by entrusting leadership positions to people who are unfit for office and yet when things go awry, they turn to castigate the very leaders they chose.
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