Spare us the Crap!!
So I joined school at around four years old, before I could tell what the little dark things on papers were. I didn’t know myself! I hated change, abhorred it infact, so much that I would writh in pain when dropped off at school in the morning. I soon learnt that it’s inevitable, and grew into the school system. I soon learnt that those black things were letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, stories and realized the faster I learnt them, the better I was!
Competition was introduced into the scope; that how much I absorbed more than my friend in class determined my position in class. Where winner was gifted prizes, trophy, cash & expensive indulgences. I learnt the game, and perfected it, my winning or losing didn’t hinder me from playing with the rest, it didn’t mean I sat out on the hide and seek games, nor the tap-me games. Ones I lost I simply worked harder to beat competition, sadly though I almost never made it to number one in class but I was somewhere!
Now we in this political game where the winner is glad they won, took home the crown, the second in position decides that they should have won and refuses to concede defeat! Simply put we have a situation where we are handling a side that had declared that they would never accept anything short of a victory, whether they work for it or not, the NASA side has let us all down! A band of great leaders trying to force their way into power!
Our constitution is very clear, the President elect has to get 50% of votes in a number of counties, and above all has to have the highest number of votes. What that means, dear Kenyans is that whether the winner gunners a million votes more, a thousand, a hundred or even one more vote he wins! No questions asked, common sense further dictates that the number two in this case should accept defeat and rally his/her supporters to go back and proceed with building country.
If ever there’s a dispute in the voter counting a responsible leader should in the same spirit of patriotism push the relevant systems to address the shortcomings observed, clear the ambiguity and proceed in nation building, and if the opposition then they should push the government to account for the betterment of the nation. Incase anything comes up and the electoral body can’t solve, the courts are there to sort it out, and lucky for Kenya there is a whole battery of international observers who would observe the whole process and push for justice.
Holding the country Ransom is irresponsible, unpatriotic and at best criminal! Playing the masses that support you to cause havoc is tantamount to a coup d’état ! Given the level of illiteracy in our nation, our leaders know very well the power they hold over their supporters. They should be quick to address their supporters giving them a direction, not going mum leaving their patriotic supporters in limbo, assuming what their leaders, their eyes, their heads are cooking, thinking, grieving, planning. A vacuum is left, and nature abhors vacuums always quick to fill them. This vacuum is quickly filled and more often than not it is filled by violence!
In our case fellows walk out of their homes in the middle of the night to mourn their loss. In a poverty stricken, tribalism-ridden country, the norm is whenever there is an excuse for lawlessness the majority of have-nots would rob from the fewer haves. Closing your eyes to sucha dynamic shows how blind we are or shows how underhanded we can be. Of course a group of guys thinking they are disenfranchised, whether true or not, walking in yhe night would engage in property destruction! Not all but few elements, the police men, our fellow countrymen, would engage appropriately according to training and orders! Of course runming battles have casualties, most often innocent bystanders. And now we would have something to really cry about! Notice the ripple effect?