I always feel very helpless and angry whenever I ponder the politics and the general state of governance in Kenya. I feel helpless to yell at Kenyans to wake up from the 100 years of slumber and utopian reverie we have been in. For how long will 'our leaders' treat us like tokens on a board game, chess pieces on a chess board, decks of cards to be shuffled and dealt out, heaping and shifting us whichever ways they deem fit to secure their own seats in the legislative and governance positions?
So who is fooling who in the Uhuru-Mudavadi-Jubilee Coalition scenario? What are the dealings being concocted by the other coalitions and what do they portend if they are not honoured? We now hear there was an MOU that was not submitted to the IEBC between Uhuru and Mudavadi. Since when did the masses' right to decide their own shift to these individuals? It is this helplessness and frustration that ignites tempers when a people feel cheated of their right, leading them to behave in the only way nature provides easily-violence, resistance. I just pray and hope that no one strikes the match in this dry, volatile and highly combustible situation and that we as Kenyans refresh our mass memory and avoid the 2007/8 scenario.
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