Politics: The Problem with Maseno-How to Fix It
The elections had already been done by the time I was through with Part 1 of this my bi-part free-for-all advice to Maseno University students. And deciding to withhold my wisdom was well thought out: it would seem unwise and senseless to speak as I am about to so soon after a new government had taken the reigns. I had to give the new ‘government’ time to settle and not poison the electorate and cause unsolicited upheavals. A whole academic year down the line and I am ready to pen down everything I had in store then, because in my view, nothing has changed-not in the behaviour of those at the helm of the students’ organization, nor among the inebriated voters. In fact, if anything, they have all changed for the worse, and the institution’s politics are metamorphosing towards the negative-retrogression-as the students of statistics would say. Lessons have been learnt by any wise and uncontented observer and believer in politics as a way to a better life. Parrots and hoi polloi ar