Mheshimiwa watch out

                                           photo courtesy harar24news 

Back in school, backbenchers a.k.a ‘wase wa mbingu’ would look at their watches every minute hoping that time runs fast for the boring afternoon classes to end. When the teacher walks out of the door, the lazy ones would close their books and return them to the lockers with a consolation that there is still more time to finish up the assignment. The following day just before the class, they realize that the teacher left some assignment. Well, they had three options: abscond the class, ignore the assignment and come up with a vague reason to cover their laziness or do some shoddy job.

That is a true reflection of most of our Kenyan politicians. They come up with big visions for their constituents during campaigns. Latter, they relax and wait thinking that they have the whole time in the world to accomplish what they promised. They do this knowing that they have no pressure from the voiceless constituents. During this time, they prioritize passing awkward and irrelevant bills that only work to their personal gains. They pass bills like stripping off Governors ‘Muheshimiwa’ title just to remain supreme. How does that help the hungry lot dying in Turkana, or the insecure teacher in Mandera or even the jobless youth in Githurai? Among the three options a lazy student has after forfeiting assignments, be sure the selfish politicians will never choose to abscond a term in parliament. They will either do a shoddy job or sweeten their words to cover up for the time spent in parliament and promise a next time like Arsenal fc does.

Kenyans also bare the blame as they have allowed the trend to continue growing in our midst generation after generation. For how long will we be cheated? It is high time we open our eyes and elect leaders based on performance. Close to 2017, politicians will again become very busy in in a bid to tie up loose ends just to remain relevant in the coming elections. Last minute projects like construction of loosely tarmacked roads and giving out handouts in the name of harambee. This transparently explains why many counties had underutilized funds at the end of the financial year. Politicians should quickly find a way of redeeming their shattered public image with the people’s interests at heart. Na sio tafadhali because 2017 is way near that they think.

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