Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The changing times: Did Marende save the Grand coalition or just postpone the grand collusion
http://blog.marsgroupkenya.org/?p=726
Did Marende save the Grand coalition or just postpone the grand collusion
People, I think all of us felt a sign of relief when Marende picked himself as the chair of the House Business Committee (HBC). What did you really expect of the poor guy? remember the Kivuitu blander? Marende's actions yestereday would have determined if this country was going to slide back into the january 2008 scenario. you have got to hand it to the man, he is no doubt wise and takes his job seriously. I wish Raila and Kibaki would learn something from the guy.
I however doubt if kenya is out of the woods. if you have been folowing the ODM politics lately, then you will know that Raila was not necessary interested in holding the chairmanship of the HBC. Rather his only problem was getting Kalonzo out of it. truth be told, kalonzo should be the last person to occupy any public office. its bad enough that we have to listen to him making silly baseless comments about what the public wants. Kibaki and Raila might not be the best of leaders but atleast they earned the right to be or say what they want. as bad and useless as they are, we the wananchi who voted for them, have no choice but to hang in there till 2012 because we gave them the mandate.
Now, if ODM was really not interested in chairing the HBC, then whats with all the noice? I think what Marende did yestereday was simply sweep the durt under the capet for now. needless to say, the ODM-PNU battle is far from over. but where does that leave the nation? has anyone thought that this might be a perfect strategy to keep us the wananchi absorbed in the political nonsense so that we barely have time to question the lack of performance by both principles. I think its no secret that there are no political enemies in this country and history can atest to that. lets think for a moment of all the issues we should be hearing about. The constitution, Agenda 4, IDP's, Insecurity, Food shortage, Migingo and the list goes on and on.
I wonder what makes us kenyas have such short memories, yet we claim to be bearing the brunt of all the political nonsense. politicians have mastered the art of distracting us from the real issues. doesnt that make the whole bunch of us as hipocritical as they are? Fact is, this coalition will survive for all the wrong reasons which we are all well awear of. that being the case, we have two choices, either continue playing along with the current scenario or demand some results. otherwise we will loose the window of opportunity for change presented by the natioanal accord.
I however doubt if kenya is out of the woods. if you have been folowing the ODM politics lately, then you will know that Raila was not necessary interested in holding the chairmanship of the HBC. Rather his only problem was getting Kalonzo out of it. truth be told, kalonzo should be the last person to occupy any public office. its bad enough that we have to listen to him making silly baseless comments about what the public wants. Kibaki and Raila might not be the best of leaders but atleast they earned the right to be or say what they want. as bad and useless as they are, we the wananchi who voted for them, have no choice but to hang in there till 2012 because we gave them the mandate.
Now, if ODM was really not interested in chairing the HBC, then whats with all the noice? I think what Marende did yestereday was simply sweep the durt under the capet for now. needless to say, the ODM-PNU battle is far from over. but where does that leave the nation? has anyone thought that this might be a perfect strategy to keep us the wananchi absorbed in the political nonsense so that we barely have time to question the lack of performance by both principles. I think its no secret that there are no political enemies in this country and history can atest to that. lets think for a moment of all the issues we should be hearing about. The constitution, Agenda 4, IDP's, Insecurity, Food shortage, Migingo and the list goes on and on.
I wonder what makes us kenyas have such short memories, yet we claim to be bearing the brunt of all the political nonsense. politicians have mastered the art of distracting us from the real issues. doesnt that make the whole bunch of us as hipocritical as they are? Fact is, this coalition will survive for all the wrong reasons which we are all well awear of. that being the case, we have two choices, either continue playing along with the current scenario or demand some results. otherwise we will loose the window of opportunity for change presented by the natioanal accord.
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