Was IEBC the real problem?

I am a worried voter. It is not peculiar but when the opposition and those who form the government of the day agree on something I tend to pay a little more attention. If you have not realised by now that CORD and Jubilee are in agreement that IEBC must go you are yet to wake up! What began like an opposition war against IEBC has now become a war of the political class against free and fair elections.
Kid me not, none of the two sides is interested in an elections body that will preside over free and fair elections because that will not take care of their interests. So dear Kenyans this is where we come in . We are getting into the electioneering period at a time when this country is highly polarised.
At a period when we are increasingly being made to believe that our safety either lies in the last name we bear or the communities we come from; we are slowly but surely creeping back to our ethnic enclaves as the count down to the next polls begin. Of course issue based politics has never been our cup of tea. Why should it be when politics is only about clans, tribes and last names, right? After all we go to the polls to elect tribal chiefs who will represent our last names out there and that alone is enough to improve our well being as voters. We must wake up to the reality that politicians put their interests first and so should we put ours. We must wake up and protect this country, even if it takes the little sense of patriotism we have left. We should be on the streets, apparently that is the language we all understand, it is perhaps the only thing we have in common with the political class, to demand inclusion in the ongoing process. We cannot afford to have an elections body that is chiselled to satisfy the whims of politicians. 2017 will not be an election year like any other we have had before. It will be the election after people have realised that MCAs can also be chauffeured in fuel guzzlers and they also wield significant power, *read they can arm twist governors and blackmail them*. It might just be the election where we have MCAs election petitions reach the supreme court, yes the stakes are that high. 2017 cannot be business as usual and we are only courting disaster by letting the political class to marionette the most important institution in our country at this point.
I may have no solutions at hand but this is a conversation we need to start.

Nchi yetu ya Kenya Tunayoipenda tuwetayari kuilinda.