Who bewitched us!

Who bewitched us!

I know few people who know me and my interest in the development of our country are surprised at how silent I am in this political period. Don’t worry or get it twisted I am still here trying to look to get an agenda I can talk about. But kid you not, it’s the same old political rhetoric that gets worse by the day.

I have been looking for some new political “noise” that would get me thinking. But too bad I keep forgetting I am in Kenya and we have a status quo to maintain. My Bad.

Dear Kenyans time has come for us to sit with manifestos presented to us in 2012. Forget those papers they spent our money and launched over the weekend, trust you me even them do not trust their own agenda. It was all over their face, you can take that to the bank or take me to court I will defend that.  Let us sit with the Jubilee Manifesto or was it TNA then, Lord the metamorphosis, and ask the hard questions. Where is that highway from Nyayo to Westlands that was supposed to ease the Mombasa road traffic? Don’t even get me started on the laptops. Ooh no there was even a 100 day plan, an accelerator to greatness. Don’t forget the drought and the whole food security agenda let alone the fact that I have suspect Unga in my house because suddenly, ugali became a luxury. Let Jubilee give us real figures on unemployment then let us audit that. After we are done with Jubilee let us ask Baba and his people if they knew what role they should have been playing in the opposition. That they can answer before they all account for their political career and the mile stones they have achieved, since my grandma was a teenager some of them have been in government. So let our politicians give us the answers.

Before I forget we have a whole 47 governors, who all had manifestos that looked like our villages would be more beautiful than Malibu beaches in California. Have you been to your village to check whether Canaan was delivered? Mine is yet to, if yours has let me know I need a new home may be just may be. Our dear governors the best you have done is complain to have more funds devolved, what have you done with the little you were allocated? Btw how come some counties are yet to even finalise the construction of their headquarters?  Build an office for yourself and at least lie to us how you spent money setting structures. While at it lets unearth all this small lies they built, remember the golden wheelbarrows, what about the golden curtains and the fish that swam downstream before audit. Don’t get me started!

What I am saying is if we asked the real hard questions we would ask IEBC or is it we would organize a walk of shame to Supreme Court to ask for a cancellation of the elections. We would most definitely need time to pick new candidates for all this positions. We would frog march all the politicians from their offices and make sober decisions on who we want as leaders.

Worry not I have woken up from dream land. This is Kenya let us all wait for 8th August, we will queue for long hours and vote in one of our own and sit b**tch for 5 years and wait for another election. Oooh dear Kenyans who bewitched us!!

Nominations what!!

If you are a Kenyan like I am, then you know all we are hearing or is it listening to is nominations. I don’t know whether any of you wonders like I do whether nominations existed before these elections because, boy, have we not been treated to a whole roller costa.

For me what the nominations have done is the reminder that there is devolution and surely power has been taken closer to the people. Whether it is a good thing or a bad thing it is for you to judge and think about. But if Nyeri and Nandi county were our bench mark then trust you me the voters are awake. Ask the “big boys” in Kiambu they will also tell you they are yet to understand what’s going on. All we know as at now the political narrative has changed. Whether we will elect better leaders or not is a discussion for another day, but truth be told there is a shift from comfort and Kenyans are looking for a new experience. The status quo is at war, brace yourself.

 Wanjiku left marikiti and took part in the nominations. Wanjiku stopped her daily business to take someone home, Wanjiku may not even know who she wants as a leader but truth be told she knows who she does not want.

The nominations are just but an eye opener and a confirmation that the power belongs to the people. Article 1 of the Constitution vests power on the people and if we can take the bull by the horns and be true to this Constitution we are going very far. We have finally realized that as much as the President may determine the level of development in your region, your governor is King. If he is a sly one, then just sit and watch your neighbors develop otherwise call the “peoples servant” to task and let them deliver. Otherwise the power is in our hands.

Kenyans are hungry for change. That is not even up for debate. What we need to debate about is what change will come. Will we elect a better government or will we change the “monkeys” and place them in different forests? Dear Kenyans as 8th August approaches by the minute let’s make a decision to stand up for change let us rewrite the Kenyan story and take that step of courage to grow. Natujenge taifa letu.