By Governor Joel Evans
Words are so powerful, so much so that they can uplift you from shame to fame and can also bring you down from fame to shame. The best weapon to deal with human nature is words. Comrades have been slaves for so long that they think the state of their slavery in itself is their freedom, but what we are yet to realize is that we need “words” to re-inspire, re-invigorate and re-orient us afresh in order to make us view our day-to-day campus challenges from another perspective.
Words bring hope. Words will make us take up what everyone has given up. Comrades have not failed, they have just gotten another opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Hope is when awareness is made by use of words as the stepping stone to realization. Hope is not sitting down and waiting for change to jet in like manna from heaven, but it is the manipulation of words to engrave vision, vision to enhance focus and focus to ferry all comrades to their desired destiny. That’s what hope is. Don’t tell me words don’t matter!
That a spirit of unity needs to be infused amongst all comrades to eradicate artificial barriers that wreck havoc and cause mayhem in both social and academic spheres, makes no sense to you? Are these just meaningless words?
That every comrade is required to honour financial obligations to the Moi University Students Organization (MUSO) by paying membership fees yet their expectations as students are not met, is nothing but a collection of senseless words? Just words? Just speeches? Don’t tell me words don’t matter!
When comrades residing in the diaspora feel neglected and divorced and persist on frequent treatment of water which they consume and fetch from boreholes, just words? Words with no substance? Words which fail to agitate that sense of humility in you? Don’t tell me words don’t matter!
We couldn’t be where we are today as campus students without the influence of words. Words made us study hard to join a “university with a difference”. Words kept us going; words made us overcome many temptations. We were given protection, health care, basic education and hope in form of words. Words have been the origin of all generational change in the universe. Today, do we mean that we shall contradict this notion and conclude that words don’t matter?
However, I am aware that words cannot bring change and I also know how difficult it is to bring change, for if it was easy then change would have been achieved long ago. But fellow comrades I am also aware that no significant change has ever occurred in human history without the critical role played by words. So next time we meet please don’t tell me words don’t matter…
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