Kenyan politicians and administrators need to grow up and shed the ways of 'boys and girls'. They are behaving like rudderless marine vessels with sails in a windy ocean. They are completely without 'mwelekeo' other than making a lot of noise so as to be recognized as 'people who talk'- or maybe Peoples' spokesmen, come the 2012 political showdown.
What we need in Kenya today, in the new political dispensation, are new-age politicians who stand out because of solid principles. Principles that should guide the whole nation into the 2030 dream of national prosperity. What we are hearing at the moment is just a disharmonious rabble and din by self-proclaimed quasi-paramount chiefs who are, each in their top gear trying to woo their tribesmen and sycophants, promising the ever elusive 'sugar-candy' lands we have all been yearning for since the departure of the British colonialists in the sixties.
….And our politicians know which side of the slice is buttered. Not so many sunsets ago, the ICC protagonists were 'mum' on a group of individuals who had been 'selected' to preside on the highest judicial seat, the public prosecutor, and Attorney general in Kenya. They did not mention, not even once, that the 'selection' was unconstitutional. The majority of Kenyans- who, by the way, are capable of thinking for themselves- saw through the hoodwink and declared 'Umekula huu! Jaribu tena!' to the President.
Now, one of those 'washtakiwa' is calling on Kenyan Christians to pray to God because a noble Kenyan, who happens to think that wearing an ear stud is chic, has been suggested as a likely Chief Justice. How about the said Kenyans praying because a 'house of God' was burnt down with the said God's flock inside? Which prayers would the said God give priority?…
The problem with politicians is that they never realize it when they become obsolete. They have placed themselves into some form of time freeze, some kind of suspended animation, and unfortunately they would like the rest of us to stay under their spell. They wish they thought for everyone. They earnestly believe their word is sacrosanct.
Oh! How wrong they are.
