A luta continua.....

The battle lines for Africa's ultimate liberation seems to be getting clearer as we progress.
It is now clear that corruption, impunity and irresponsible, unaccountable regimes headed by  lame-duck leaders are our common enemy. Our politics have been dominated by criminals and compounded by greed and blind power struggles.
Most of African populations are held up at bottle-necks created by politicians seeking to entrench and enrich themselves with total disregard of the woes facing the masses. The only time the masses' needs are in the politicians' agenda is when the elections are near, and even then, the needs met are meagre, short term and only fulfilling immediate desires; beer for the men-folk, one kilogram packages of sugar for the women-folk and or a large denomination currency note. The more real problems are listed as development plans to be implemented if the politicians get the votes. These will be as vague as possible to make sure no one is able to question the implementation progress or lack thereof. They will shout about how they will " bring electricity and water to the villages…, the schools will be improved…, the roads will be upgraded,…"
Finally to get the voters out in their droves, the politicians will pull the age-old trick of accusing past regimes headed by 'other' tribes of all the underdevelopment in their region. They will however forget to mention that they were in Parliament when these regimes were in power and that they have nothing in record to indicate that their efforts to represent their voters were frustrated-of course because the Hansard is not accessible by the ordinary mwananchi.(Parliamentarians are known to go through their terms without ever contributing anything in The house except the conversion of oxygen into carbon dioxide.) They will call on their supporters to vote 'as a block' and these is normally translated as a green light to frustrate opposition as necessary-unfortunately including violence.
To the issue at hand, fight against corruption and impunity.
Why is it that someone who is associated with prosecutorial debacles related to serving parliamentarians is nominated and approved for the post of chief prosecutor by the said parliament-is this a sign of things to come, that none of the sitting parliamentarians suspected of crimes both local and international-and we have many!-will prosecuted?Aren't we, by this actions, entrenching impunity into our new constitution?
Why don't our parliamentarians see the urgency to clear the DPP nominee of all accusations facing him before approving his nomination?
Because of political expediency and feelings of need for leniency/protection, parliamentarians are now aligned along those in need of a blind eyed prosecutor supporting Ole Tobiko and those with no fears of prosecution opposing his nomination.  The president and prime minister either by design or by accident are held at ransom. And our new dawn will be muddied by this act.  So again, this is a false start.The struggle for our liberation continues. Let there be no more blood spilling-innocent blood.