The Other Side Of The Coin...

Surely, what has become of my beloved country? Has she degenerated into a country of sheer crime and impunity? Has she lost all value and regard for morality and our good African socialism? Has taking the life of a fellow human being become such a simple act? What happened to the respect for each other as humans? To answer these questions, I will begin from where I stopped last week: that society produces what it has. If this premise is anything to go by, then the Kenyan populace is squarely to blame. But is this really the case? A political analogy first: once there was a philosopher by the name John Locke. He sought to explain the origin of government. In this undertaking, he came up with the Social Contract Theory. In it he begins by explaining the nature of the pre-political state. This state was characterized by “peace, goodwill, mutual assistance and preservation. Men were free and equal. They were also subject to the vague law of nature; that is they enjoyed

Last time I wrote in condemnation of the greed our beloved MPs are arrogantly exhibiting by asking for higher salaries. And I said that I do not sympathize with the Kenyan voter. My reasons are as follows: For starters, it is you the voter who is helping to propagate the ‘hyena regimes.’ I can already see that curious and furious face with the question ‘how’ screaming out loud. This is how you are doing it. Elections time in Kenya have proved to be a battle time. Not real battles for land or freedom, but battles for power. Each aspirant will be trying to outdo the other, not in terms of wits and ideology, but in terms of ‘financial muscle’. This leads them to getting down and dirty so as to outshine the rest; the result of which is more votes.  It is like a peacock mating game, where the most beautiful cock gets a female with which to mate. Surely, Kenyans, have you reduced your status to that of ‘mere birds’? Let us dissect the political behavior of the Kenyan voter and

The behavior of the Kenyan parliamentarian is one that will never cease to amaze even the most intelligent psychologists. It all points to one thing: that elections in Kenya only serve to propagate the “hyena regimes” the country has known since time immemorial. I do not regret calling the MPs hyenas because that is what they are. Neither do I sympathize with the Kenyan voter; that is a story for another day. For the former, here is why: These men and women are at it again. They are barely two months old in parliament, but they have already drawn out their poisonous claws; the claws of the highly infectious and oppressive malady namely, greed. Leading this pack of Machiavellian, egoistic and verbally ferocious hyenas is one Mithika Linturi. Remember he is an apprentice of the old guard, most of who now constitute the senate. Call him a good student for learning the art of blackmail and aggrandizement. But sir, (too generous a title by any measures if your behavior i

Anyone who has gone through any political science class will affirm to you that from their Introduction to Political Science, politics is defined as “who gets what, when and how.” A politician is thus anyone who will at any given time be in the pursuit of an identified object of desire. The methods or means of obtaining his or her objectives are what define the nature of his politics. Applying the above in society and testing for its applicability reveals some rather interesting observation-that virtually everybody is a politician by nature. The only difference is that the trait is more prominent in some individuals than others. It was no surprise thence, that a compact majority of the public voiced their disquiet over the nomination of two of the old-guard to the Jubilee cabinet last week. To begin with, it is commendable of the president to nominate such a promising team of technocrats to head the ministries. He acted within the constitutional stipulations and showed a