HACKNEYED POLITICIANS ARE LOOSENING OUR CITIZENSHIP TIES AND UNDERMINING OUR PATRIOTISM.

Is it possible for one to profess love for one’s country and in the same vein hate its citizens with unlimited passion? Absurd as it may sound yet this is the paradox that is increasingly defining the relationship between the electorate and the many diabolical politicians. They are so stone cold to the fact the contempt with which they hold this country is threatening to loosen the ties of citizenship and greatly undermine our patriotism. Hackneyed politicians are furiously and callously driving the country to a precipice. Sample this; honorable Zakayo Cheruiyot, is overheard in a political rally spewing incendiary remarks to the effect that “the Kalenjins will assist the police in apprehending those who will throw stones.” He only stops short of stating why and when this “turbulence” will take place. Yet the Government has not found it necessary to question him over his “prophetic message.” In another related incident, honorable George Thuo alongside a section of the central Kenya legislators are overheard trashing the prospective meeting between the Prime Minister and President Mwai Kibaki. With such theatrics, the public is left wondering as to who exactly stands to gain if the high political temperatures are sustained in this country. Curiously, the same legislators have been heard elsewhere opining that those currently fighting graft are engaged in a diversionary tactics to scuttle the constitution making process even though there isn’t any iota of evidence to remotely suggest an interconnectedness between the fight against corruption and the constitution making process. As the above scenarios play out, the country is now being subjected to the conjecture that conspiracy theories to discredit targeted political personalities and political parties have started being manufactured. I have a hunch that the public will be fed to more and more of this political conspiracies. From the above incidents, one does not need to be a professor of politics to be able to tell that unconscionable politicians are deliberately orchestrating a political disorientation. This political disorientation is a perfect smokescreen for this cabal to throw a protective ring around those implicated in graft. Secondly, they hope to use it as a reason enough to disembark from the Grand Coalition Government (GCG) and hope that President Kibaki will have the carte blanche to invite renegade ODM Legislators to form a Government of National Unity (GNU). Such reasoning is childish because the GCG is not about an individual as these Legislators seem to think. GCG was conveniently put in place to accommodate the disenchantment of a larger part of the electorate arising out of a flawed electoral process. That is why the National Accord and Reconciliation Act succinctly states that no side of the two political parties (ODM and PNU) can realistically govern without the other. Neither can PNU nor ODM undergo a mutation to become an acceptable ruling party outside the GCG. It therefore follows that any attempt at prematurely disembarking from this political structure must inevitably give rise to a general election failure to which another politically instigated blood letting will be ushered in. This is the chilling reality that must be accepted by these conniving politicians. Political leaders must therefore come to their senses and begin to appreciate the fact that the citizenship of this country needs and craves for better leadership. Such leadership cannot be demonstrated through their criss- crossing the country to hold political rallies with a view to spreading vile disinformation with overwhelming rhetorical force nor in manufacturing targeted political conspiracies. TOME FRANCIS, BUMULA. http://twitter.com/tomefrancis