Majimboism: Reinventing the Political Wheel?

ODM-K politicians have made majimboism a principal plank in their campaigns to to cheat Kenyans of their votes. Packaging regionalism in new linen makes these chaps believe that theirs is the best political gift to Kenyans after independence. Nothing could be further from the truth and our sly politicians are simply stuck like an old record regurgitating old stuff that has no relevance to our present problems. Shorttermism remains the guiding principle of most politicians. All they do is to scheme using voters as ladders for political expediency.

Majimboism is the epidemic whose symptoms already have Kenya bleeding from ethnic hatred. And if we were to legalize it then God have mercy. For starters, the whole ODM-K brigade’s argument for majimbo is pegged on the wrong premise. Even before we engage ourselves in the debate, we must accept the truth that the timing couldn't have been any worse. Kenya is boiling with tribal tension that only needs a spark to explode. The ODM chaps are alive to this fact and want to take advantage for political expediency at our collective peril.

The merit and demerits of majimbo are neither here nor there. With individualized and/or regionalized rule, majimboism will be the icing on the cake on emergence of tribal chiefs ready to sell their tribesmen pound of flesh to cobble up tribal collisions. All we need is structured administration build on institutions that can operate independent of the office bearers. Simple put must go back to the basic and not even entertain the idea of taking us back to Misri, as my brilliant granny often wisely warned.

Why would we create mayhem to unsettle the prevailing peace among tribes? Our cheap politics that has perfected the paradigm of our turn is the bane in this political madness. A fair distribution of wealth and resources would make us be tribeless.

Unless we stop providing an elastic and indefatigable backs for our politicians to ride on, we are inadvertently abetting the speedy slide of our motherland into abyss. We must stop these politicians from playing the small tribes against the perceived large ones.

All are born equal and any trace of calibration into superiority is the height of deception in attept to jutify living a lie. Such cheap propaganda are anchored on simplistic and unproductive leadership. We must resist the lure to opt for cheap plastic options in the face of gigantic problems. Regionalism is no panacea to the present sickening spate of tribalism among Kenyans. If anything it will only succeed in fuelling the vice.

With no dependable institutions, we are simple inviting ourselves to into the jungle with all its unpleasant laws. Lest we want to create unviable 42+ jimbos for each tribe, Kenya and Kenyans must retrace their values and agree to either grow together of severally exterminate each other. There is success story anywhere in the world on this. So why pretend to have discovered the tools to reinvent a rusty wheel? I rest my case.