Kenya’s stale leadership
To the NASA Team and Jubilee Team in equal measure! You have not only failed, you are revealing what is wrong with our leadership.
The stink is choking! The level of self preservation and self enrichment is dishearteningly clear. The Patriot had no other course of action that to slander such traits!! And as is characteristic of the so huge a burden the Patriot gracefully shoulders, one of love of country, naming and shaming isn’t enough but advice on how to proceed is necessary!
The NASA Team, was declared losers in the just concluded 2017 elections by the constitutional body IEBC. They go on to contest the validity of their loss, even before the announcement! Crying foul on some major irregularities; a hacked system, ghost polling stations and a biased leadership within the IEBC! As all Kenyans we held our breaths awaiting the highly popularised evidence, IEBC chair too. After a barrage of press conferences with NASA crying foul they swore not to follow the IEBC ruling and deftly side stepped the whole evidence issue.
The announcement was made! Jubilee supporters celebrated, NASA supporters grieved, both sides decided to walk out in the night to express their feelings, different as they were. In NASA strongholds though, the police report running battles with the supporters, thefts, destruction of property by the grieving lot,according to the police
Acting Security CS Matiangi “the police were stopping looters and thieves, not fighting protesters….no report of dead protesters” the statement went, all this while the NASA leadership, for whom the grieving was for kept mum. From the onset of the grieving protests, the alleged cold-blooded killing by the police, the NASA leadership went mum,silent on the direction their followers should follow. It should be remembered that the NASA team kept quiet since their boycott of the IEBC announcements, leaving their followers /supporters in limbo essentially creating a vacuum that resulted to a number of deaths, destruction of property, police cruelty and other untold inhuman acts. The nation wept for the hurt & dead.
For the NASA leadership to come after the inhuman acts have been confirmed, to come after the deaths have occurred, to show their faces after supoorters have been killed, to now raise their voice in protest as opposed to speaking out in leadership of their distraught masses is sinister, sly, borderline criminal and honestly unbecoming of a leader on any level: from the class prefects in Primary school to the Student leaders in Universities. Ones mind would roam wild seeking reasons as to why the leadership did this..?
Was it to develop some grounds against the government?
Was it to justify their cry for justice?
On the other hand all Kenyans did what Kenyans do best, they went out in large numbers in the streets shouting their support/pleasure and displeasure with the announcement, the social media posts and images, their sensitivity not withstanding afterall that’s what we do! Expecting any different is expecting the populace to pretend, hiding their color! The leadership must surely know their people!
Onto this background, adding the fact that they had unanimously trashed the judiciary and swore not to take a petition there, only to take it there and celebrate the ruling when it favoured their side! Disgrace! Disgrace! Disgrace!
To the Jubilee side, lemme hold it for the continuation in the next article….