Via Jimmie Bonnie
Eliud Kipchoge, the greatest marathoner in the history of mankind wants to meet former U.S. president Barack Obama, not any Kenyan leader, including that hypocrite who joined him in Vienna.
Kipchoge is by all standards a rich guy, be sure he won’t be going to Obama with a begging bowl like Jubilee government.
His aim? He believes that they share something in common with Obama that they can together harness inspire the world.
There are few men in this world who have achieved exponential greatness and still think that they need to do more to inspire humanity rather than continue pursuing personal gain.
Kipchoge is among these few men and as a country we can’t be grateful enough.
Interestingly, Kipchoge not only inspired us with actions but left us with unforgettable inspirational lines for he knows only too well that the human heart feeds on nutrients from good words.
Thus he entered the league of Neil Armstrong, the first human being to pee on the moon. Neil quipped immediately he placed his American foot on the face of the moon: “That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”
While our own Kipchoge said: “I don’t know where the limits are, I would wish to go there”. Basically, Kip encourages all of us to hunt for human limits and shutter them like glass.
That’s why president Kenyatta and Raila Odinga shook hands and that’s why my mother had to work as a casual labourer at flower farms in Naivasha so that I could join university, a place where she wanted to be through her kids.
Every day in this country, Kenyan families who’ve their lives ravaged by our poor policies struggle to break the limits. And everyday, those in government shutter their dreams by stealing money meant for medicine and for improving infrastructure.
It’s people like Kipchoge that we need to honour, not by giving him those worthless civilian honours awarded to Itumbi’s girlfriends but by renaming JKIA after him or permanently engraving his image on our currency.
But you know we can only do this over our dead bodies. We had already honoured him not by lowering the price of essential drugs but Sh159, not by telco companies reducing call rates to Sh1.59 per minute but by reducing the price of a bottle of beer to sh159.
We are a drunk nation.
