In quick succession, MPs have arrogantly refused to pay taxes and are instead buying time by appointing a committee to review the issue and advise.
Then they hit back at the media by cavalierly passing a law containing clauses significantly injurious to the freedom of media – a law that the President bizarrely assents to before making a temporary U-turn.
Dismayed Kenyans are then hit with confessions by the President that we confront a full-blown food crisis threatening more than 10 million, a food shortage clearly attributable to the heartless conniving of senior people in the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB).
THIS IS IN CAHOOTS WITH A BUNCH of politicians from both sides of the coalition that are eager to sink their already drowning constituents deeper into the oceans of hunger and destitution.
With the confession of hunger comes the inevitable plea for alms to buy food, fast on the heels of a shocker that a smart alec called Yagnesh Devani has colluded with another bunch of entrepreneurial Kenyans to swindle more than Sh7.6 billion, a considerable amount of which belongs to the taxpayer.
As the media reports expose a clear link between the leaderships of the coalition and the governance crises, the Prime Minister fires an uncharacteristic broadside, threatening to deal with the media if they do not stop soiling his name.
He says he is as white as snow and that the public, should, therefore, not be invited to scrutinise his role in the general failures of the coalition government, even where members of his own party, working in the government that he is clearly implicated.
As the dizzy public digests this, they are jolted by revelations that our conniving MPs have scuttled the one initiative bold enough to apportion blame and extract accountability from our leaders.
By insisting that the resign-till-proven-innocent clause be removed from the law setting up the tribunal to investigate the post-election violence, the MPs prove yet again that they are completely at variance with the mood and aspirations of the people.
It is astonishing that learned MP Ababu Namwamba, can distort common practice that holds that someone adversely mentioned or linked to an issue under investigations vacates office until those claims are ascertained or discounted.
But such is the character that has emerged of the 10th Parliament – that where self-interest conflicts with public good, they will vote with their mouths and stomachs.
Like many others, I have generally been inclined to forgive wananchi and see them as hapless victims of machinations of ruthless buccaneers solely focused on looting and stealing. But facts are that these leaders are legitimately elected.
My reader, Muchiri Duncan, says Kenyans need to be told that all these problems – corruption, famine, unemployment, etc – are there because they (Kenyans) entertain them or are complacent. Nairobi voters, for instance, though enlightened, have voted in leaders of questionable integrity.
IT'S HARD TO ARGUE WITH DUNC-an. Many people that wananchi have bestowed with the responsibility to lead, of making progressive policies that would assure wananchi basic rights and comforts, and that would create opportunities that reward hard work and human creativity are undeserving.
It is time the public stopped asking for change from people that can't give it because they neither know it nor seek it.
It is time, as a friend graphically put it recently, that angry Kenyans got into the (political) kitchen and changed the menu from the set choices already defined for us with regard to the presidency.
He who dares disrupt the party might yet walk away with the prize. – Daily Nation
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