Looking at many ills in our society, apart from those made by thieves, robbers, rapists, killers, etc. many have been made or fuelled by politicians. I mean this lot of persons are ‘elected and professional thieves, robbers, rapists, killers etc.”
By definition;
Politics is the science
of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and
government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safety, peace, and
prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights against foreign control or
conquest, the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of
its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their
morals.
In my economics
class my lecture used to say that “we cannot do away with politics but we can
do away with politicians” maybe the name itself (politician) has loads of ill
that it passes to a person that calls him/herself a politician through demonic possession
that even a pastors hands and prayers cannot disposes. We have seen many of
them being prayed for now and then, kneeling before the Lord but after that
they go back to their evil ways and they don’t even realize that they just ‘received’
anointing, if it’s not their usual political plays.
In the new
constitution we created Governors, they were meant to be Chief Executive
Officers of the county, but with their political associations, one year four
months down the line since the last election, Governors have reduced their
roles from development centres that were to meet the developmental need of a
certain local county to political wrestlers with wrangles starting with their
supremacy battles with Senators to bribing MCA’s and offering them out of proportion
allowances to trips that will never benefit the counties nor wanjiku whose dream seems invalid the
moment they cast a vote.
As we scraped
the Ministerial position to Cabinet Secretaries, we all thought that bringing
on board technocrats would benefit us even more given the fact that some of the
ministers lacked or had little education. The one thing in common that spoils
it all, is that same as Ministers, Cabinet Secretaries are political
appointees, this means they will serve the wishes of the hand that picks them.
This is the reason we have had numerous attack both in our wildlife and
citizens, the number of tourists has gone down, our liability through borrowing
has gone up, the balance of trade between us and other nation has dwindled, we
are now importing maize from Tanzania, people are dying of hunger in El-Molo
etc. and yet no one cares and no one is being held accountable.
We all associate
development to politicians and to vote them in they always come up with
manifestos as a list and promise of what they will do once they get elected.
Development doesn’t need to be instigated by a politician rather it should be a
need related where the politicians should fulfill for us as the servants of the
people rather than rulers of persons.
All we need are trained
professional that will guide us through this development journey, professionals
we can fire and hire if we need better services. Politicians act up as the lead
and our broker’s to these technocrats. Some of them have manifested themselves
as tribal Kings and mostly practice aristocracy in the name of democracy to
show us that we have a voice but in truth we don’t.
If we move away
from politicians I know they have the ability to camouflage to whatever we need
so that they can survive among us and on top of us, but the best thing is we
need to have our voice heard on issues rather than borrowing from a few
individual that are out to satisfy their unending power belly.
If the roads are
bad, the hospitals services are poor, the education facilities are wanting, food
supply has dwindled, our products are of poor quality etc. if we all know this surely
we don’t need politicians to tell us what we want, we are the bosses lets
employ and if it doesn’t work we fire.
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