THE TRAGEDY THAT HAS BECOME OUR INVESTMENT I am made to believe that it is not my fault of misunderstanding as a child born of the flips of the yester years of the 90s and growing up watching events unfold to more intriguing chapters. Any resident of Samburu County who witnessed the clamour and ultimate end of the 2013 polls in our county would not shy away from exhibiting an impression of bouyant optimism in the face of a great complex of knotly problems. Most of them sunk in gloom. The biggest percentage would even preserve a remnant of admiration for leaders who begin their term on the belief that “Nothing is impossible for Samburu County.” I would have succinctly in languid drawl put it this way, “No crop of leaders in Samburu has ever come to greater opportunities amid so great an outpouring popular trust and hope from their subjects.” samburu It was the new dispensations turn to shine glory on the butterfly county. In no time we had a County Assembly of 26 ‘able’ members, National Assembly of six ‘able’ members and a Governor. My classical dream was intact not until things started falling apart. The falcon could not bear the weight and soon the cracks of despair started being visible. As Barack Muluka poetically put it in reference to the just concluded Saba Saba fiasco, “The mountain rumbles loudly, the rumbles are deafening, the mountain is pregnant. No one knows what is due, even the mountain itself.” This symbolic mountain ultimately gave birth to a squicky, little, harmless mouse. Were we on the wrong footage yet again? The real predicaments in no time started being so perceptible that the eminent cracks were not enough an indicator. Our elected leaders again retreated into the killer investment. An investment that had all liabilities and no dividends. They retreated back again to their stock market, the Samburu clans stock market. This is where the high voltage clan lords had placed their ‘innocently naive’ clansmen for a bidding as a collateral for political mileage and gain. elections When it came to crucial county appointments all were glued around the Governor, each stating a person they think best represents their clan. A person who would in no doubt play to the tunes of the master so obediently. None thought widely that there will never be a clan representation! This was an abstract fallacy of the mind used by those of the higher sociestal caste to manipulate the people in a purported “we” ideology while a realist perception would reveal the “I” philosophy behind it. I am personally mystified by how our leaders openly castigate the disunity of their subjects by word but yet appear to condone the potent vice by deed. They marshall their learned ‘professionals’ to ‘strategy’ meetings on how to either retain, capture or advance politically. The learned scholars not fighting off the ‘clan satisfaction theory’, they not contemplating on the fact that by the virtue of His Excellency Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta being the Kenyan president, it would be utterly stupid, fervently foolish and a reverse of intelligent thinking to assume that all Kikuyus are satisfied and always sleep with full stomachs. The reality that life operates on distinct paradigm levels does not ring on them thus unknowingly trashing away the value of education instilled in them. Is it fair? For our leaders to turn the full vials of their boardroom disagreements upon the vulnerable populace mired in despondency? Is it fair for them to marshall us behind them in the pretext and subtext of ‘clan bargaining’ whereas we all know that none of our names appear in their heads while they are having a splendid good time in their modicums of comforts? While other regions are buzzing with fruits of unity of both subjects and leaders we are searching in dry avenues of clan disunity and enmity. Apparently and evidently Samburu lacks a unified coherent philosophy of leadership instead what it has is more of a hodgepodge of avanicious political factions and classes suffering from acute ideological orthodoxy. It is in the advancement of a more unified course for our people that we should remind our leaders that their performance as far as the unity of our people is concerned is dismal. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), the well known French philosopher in his book ‘Du Contract Social’ suggested that when leaders by bad leadership broke their social contract with their subjects, the subjects were free to choose other leaders. Arguably, this was one of the tenet ideology that triggered the French Revolution. While playing in the public gallery, they will bludgeon us to think that heaven is a mile away while in their unguarded moments, the clan they purport to fight for is no more, what is left is the selfish social, economic and political propelling of gains for themselves. Much as protocol and the law would force me to respectively refer to the preceding title ‘Honourable’ before your nouns, the retrogressive and destructive ideologies you advance are tearing apart our people and overturns the ‘honourable’ titles to ‘DISHONOURABLE’.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:16:31 +0000
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