A movie “Godzilla,” depicts a giant mutated man-eating lizard wrecking havoc in New York’s Madison Square. It takes the courage of a few individuals to destroy this giant and its offspring. A Godzilla in the form of tyranny, manipulation of law, arrogance and theft has been set loose on Kenyans. We are now watching Godzilla eggs vibrate in readiness to hatch. We are depressed; what we thought belonged to the African history of the 60s is here with us. Who will be the brave men and women that will destroy the Godzilla offspring before it devours humanity in Kenya?

What started as a legitimate quest to ensure fairness in the just concluded presidential elections in Kenya has unleashed a brutal Godzilla. Marriage as a basic molecule of our society is in danger. A friend was the other day disowned by two tribes because she has mixed blood (mother and father from different tribes); she had to rescue her siblings through Kisumu airport; clad in ‘Buibuis’ to the temporary safety of the city. Another friend aged well over 50 and highly educated;  has trouble with her husband because they voted opposite parties; yet another has had to move her mother from her matrimonial home of mixed marriage – the husband is helpless; he cannot protect his wife anymore!

Another Godzilla egg has hatched in the business sector. Managers are forced to use ethnicity to assign duties. Sales and Marketing teams are being recalled and redeployed to areas they can be safe – tribal homes! While some of us have been working hard to build a United Africa; a few people seem hell-bend to reintroduce ethnic kingdoms and destroy Kenya. The eggs are hatching in the religious sector too; the men of God who carry on the toga clad Roman tradition have opted to identify with their own tribes. Spiritual guidance has been replaced by whims of time as human egos eager to partake of the national cake divert attention from issues of justice to those of glorifying theft.

Media houses are not spared either, its shocking how the Godzilla eggs spread so fast! Listening to Radio FM stations; one is left wondering whether they are keen on expunging the word justice from the dictionary. If Kenyan FM stations are not offering sedatives to burry the problem under the carpet; they are busy inciting ethnicity. Where is the famed Media Council, have they been swallowed by the Godzilla already? To back-up the stations is the ‘Kiplagat committee’ that is not keen to frankly address the cause and effect relationship in the current crisis; they simply want Kenyans to heal! How can Kenyans heal when every other day, the two political warring factions drive nails deep into the wounds they unleashed upon the nation on December 30 2007?

With their heads in the sand, the middle class - if not urging for prayer for peace, concerts for peace, they are fundraising to erect billboards for peace at every residential area entrance! Nairobi hinterland is burning; tribal passions are being whipped up by the day. The middle class is busy checking in the dictionary for high sounding moralistic words while privately urging on their fellows to protect the supremacy of their tribes.

The Godzilla and its eggs must be destroyed, they must not hatch! It’s not going to be easy, but each one of us must re-examine our sense of humanity and the future of the Kenyan republic. Brutish force without power will not bring peace in Kenya, neither will power without legal force. Mr. Odinga and Mr. Kibaki, Kenyans of goodwill will not watch the republic burn because of you.