Rome....Day One.

When the dust finally settles and the eating class get down to their age-perfected science (or is it an art) of eating our national cake, we Kenyans have always gotten back, and we will, to our honest task of baking the cake. I have referred to it elsewhere on this forum, as 'treading the wine-press' and I believe, with my own frail wisdom, that these are one and the same. We bake the cake-they eat it. We press the grapes, they drink the wine. They do the shooting, we do the dying, we do the voting, they do the looting, what's the difference?
My take from what we just concluded with the ruling from our Supreme court is that though we are not out of the woods yet, there is a ray, nay, a glimmer of light through the tunnel. Our salvation is not far, our liberation match is so close the ground is literally shaking and those who cannot feel the tremor will surely be trampled when the stampede gets here. And it is soon.
I pray that as we embark on our daily tasks of 'nation building' as our leaders (curiously this rhymes with eaters?) always beseech us to, we ought not loose sight of the milestones we have gained. We now have the precedent of contesting an electoral process in court and though the outcome this time around may have been hampered by the time constraints, we ought to work on the mechanisms laid down by the constitution so that next time around, our justice does not suffer the 'hands tied' syndrome again.
We now have a body that is a little close to what we envisaged as to what an electoral prefect should be. We don't have a perfect one, but I dare say and hope this one is malleable and ductile. We ought to put it under a microscope, identify the defects and put it back on the forge and fix it. It can serve us better the next time around. We have the time to do these things, all we need is sobriety and patriotism, and we can summon these. Our electoral prefect, like Caesar's wife, ought to be impeccable, it's duties; transparent, free, fair, accurate to an acceptable margin of error, verifiable and accountable. Before the next electoral process, we ought to accomplish this.
As we continue building on the gains we have made so far, let us agree to perform a post-mortem of the last election with the sole purpose of holding a better process next time, let us know exactly where our systems, be they human or automated, failed us. Let us without apportioning blame or imputing ill motive, take that electoral process back to the lab and analyze it. The next one should find us better prepared. It took more than one day to build Rome.