Vicious cycle of a credulous voter and rudderless politician
For about five decades that Kenyans have been voting, nothing significant seems to be untangled. The country has changed thinly to nothing except for the lure of massive Chinese loans that has borne a few tarmacked roads. But that is merely enough for a country with over fifty million people.
To lead and develop a country like Kenya, serious decisions have to be made in almost every department. Serious changes, big decisions, a resolve to economically elevate the people. For that to happen, Kenya needs more leadership and less politics.
But it seems with every vote cast, the situation seems to get much worse.
It's almost official that politicians disappear after elections and Kenyans are left high and dry with placards of demands and endless demonstrations begging for rightful pay for rightful work. In Kenya, the importance of a voter is perishable. His importance ends where campaigns end.
Sadly, 2022, is a different year of the same. There is a surge of obsequious voters with vicious attitudes ready to put their masters in power at any expense. At the expense of a country. At the expense of the most imperative ingredient - peace that other countries die to protect.
“Every single eligible citizen to turn out tomorrow in great numbers to do that what our democracy entitles you to do....to VOTE.....after that Go Back Home!... .” President Uhuru (2017 elections)
Garbage In, Garbage Out
As we speak, the looming 2022 elections are currently the object of desire for all politicians in the country. This is happening while the country is on a deficit spending spree and where the parliament grows reckless by minute
In a country where the politicians and civil servants wages and salaries slice up 60% of the country’s budget, economic decisions should be taken seriously and prudently. But who are we telling?
The parliament and all involved in the affairs of the nation should be well settled in parliament setting budgets straight and determining methods and ways in which to repay the damning loans to include the fight against thieves who have left this nation in a state of quandary.
One for the thief
Very soon, cloying promises will be made, again, to get voters’ attention. New bridges will be promised, tarmacked roads, next-to-impossible agricultural projects, modern market’s construction to be finished within the first hundred days, public school’s revamping projects, new clinics or purchase of new hospital equipment for existing health centers and all the promises of meat will grow from the gardens and money will fall from trees will go live again!
Nairobi County will hear it all over again for the seventieth million time, that the city will be de-congested with no dime stolen, modern drainage systems to include waste management systems will be installed and the punchline is always as usual, ‘Round hii si mchezo!’
Voters will harmoniously, as usual, wake up early, freeze in early morning cold and scorch in the midday sun in endless queues, to vote their favorite thief once again.
Voters' madness
After all the hullabaloos and after politicians have saturated the country with bogus promises and obvious exploitation, the gypped voters literally fight to seat them in public offices.
Their hatred is directed towards other voters in opposition and a county that has similar problems cannot agree on who is capable of bringing real change to their county; but what choice do they have when they have to choose one thief out of several?
Mtu-wetu policy
The madness over who should be elected president, governor, or senator is always done over wrong reasons. First, there are fabricated lies aka promises, second, there is mtu-wetu-policy.
Mtu wetu policy is simply electing a person in office just because he or she is either endeared as a philanthropic or other stupid reasons. But the main definition is the fact that he or she shares ethnicity. The president’s seat is always a case of mtu-wetu-policy and all other ethnicity lords supporting the other ethnicity lord!
The mtu-wetu-policy and the susceptibility to be lured by junk promises has consequently killed Kenya’s ability to see beyond their noses! After elections and after all officials have taken over their respective offices, we are always left at the raw end of a bogus deal.
Promises are reneged, agreements are thrown off the window and citizens are left high and dry –often, violence and destruction of property results even long before and after thieves and few saints have taken over their respective offices.
Get more for your vote
Is voting a right or a right to be served? Is voting just an exercise to avoid war or violence? Is voting just a routine deal we have with the rudderless politicians every end of five years?
Whatever the case might be, if voting is done with all the right reasons in mind, results should be seen in the well-being of the people. The well being of the nation at large.
With the potential we have as a country, we should be in the seventh heaven. In stead, we are stuck deep in the abyss of corruption, politics filled with pervasive ethnic inclinations and inundated with faulty logic and fake legacy pursuits.
Voting is right to be served
Voting is our right and our right to be served. If voting does not end up electing an official who will intern deliver on services, improve the state of a county or a country is a vote gone bad –just like the one vote that never got counted because the voter literally drew the face of his ethnic lord!
All being said and done, 2022 is awaiting all of us, yeah, but as the saying goes; you can lead a horse to the water, but you can’t force it to drink!
I can write as much as I want. I can plead with Kenyans to vote wisely. But in the end, they will pick up the garbage from the garbage and trash the parliament, once again, with mtu-wetu.
As we always do - voting in a daylight liar- and then end up with a pitiful cry on the other end of the line, calling them land grabbers, m-pigs, system ya Majambazi as if they came from nowhere and filled the parliament like bees in a hive! But what can I say? Garbage in, garbage out!