The political air around the nation has been
hot in recent days and politicians have been their true selves! The opposition
has been calling for talks with the government over serious national issues.
Security and the disbandment of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries
Commission (IEBC) are part of the national dialogue that CORD has been
clamoring for. On the other side of the patio, politician from the JUBILEE wing
have dismissed all these, and branded it political witch-hunt. Just as in 2013
General elections, the battle lines have been dominantly been drawn between
President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and the opposition doyen, Raila Amollo Odinga.
Their sycophants are even making the most noise, and blurring the real issues.
As a nation, we have learnt not to trust our
politicians, and this national dialogue it is no different. Depending on which
side of the political divide you stand on, this national dialogue is either
political witch-hunt or an honest way to address the issues that have plagued
our nation. Remember what has just happened to our brothers and sisters in
Mpeketoni, Makutani in Baringo County, Garissa and Wajir? Vide some
appointments in the government? When our political decibels go down, then we
all realize that indeed we have hot issues to talk about. Sadly, our
politicians are not the type to trust. The only political immorality that as a
nation, we collectively take part in is that we talk, eat and sleep politics. We
are mysteriously and inexplicably spell-bound by politics and sadly cheap
politics. The same politics that are the bane of all the evils that are
menacingly staring in our faces!
As an electorate and the politicians, as a
society, we have destroyed our moral fiber that patriotic Kenyans in the ranks
of Reverend Timothy Njoya and others, fought so hard to build. Corruption,
negative ethnicity and political skullduggery are all national sports and we
proudly take part, war unto you, who doesn’t play ball, after all, this is a
nation whereby we have a eating culture, no wonder we equate leadership posts
in this nation to loaves of bread, or worse still, anything edible! We suffer
from an inter-twined curse of eating and political that has clung onto our
skins, like ticks to cows!
We have a rotting part of our political life!
The rot is fast spreading to the entire system. Appointments in successive
governments have been aligned along political lines, our political class will
never stop eating t the slightest opportunity that comes begging, most of our
politicians are self-seekers and hide behind national issues to secretly propagate
their interests, most of our Members of County Assemblies members are
embezzling funds all under the guise of boarding planes to go to foreign lands
to bench-mark and borrow ideas on how to effect devolution! We are sick and the
political cancer is fast eating up the entire political system! Leaders in top
positions in the government flatly refuse to listen to their conscience and
cannot fathom resignations even when it is clear that they have horribly failed
in their duties!
Yet at the backdrop of all these political
noise, security, terrorism, healthcare, education, unemployment are killing us
at every dawn!
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