‘Masters of deceit’ to blame for bad politics
The Standard deserves commendation for the timely information (in the story ‘MoUs that changed Kenyan politics forever’) it gave Kenyans about the behind-the-scenes politics of intrigue and power sharing deals among politicians in the lead up the 2002 elections.
The political environment then was quite explosive and the core campaign theme and the political mood was about change of leadership and reforms.
What most Kenyans then were not aware off is that politicians were busy clandestinely drafting MoUs and sharing of power among themselves. Anyway, this is water under the bridge but, the consequences of not honouring the MoUs signed continues to absolutely affect and influence our politics in a big way.
It’s really tragic that the MoUs were not honoured when Kanu was humiliated and Narc was in power. Now, we can authoritatively confirm that, because of mischief and ‘cleverness’ of some clique of politicians, this is the reason why the much hyped second liberation failed.
Killed dream
This, subsequently, killed the Kenyan dream before it took off!
This is where the rain started beating us, and regrettably a decade later, the overall consequences are actually been felt in local politics. This can clearly be illustrated by the massive confusion and general mayhem that characterise our politics.
More importantly, and this is really worrying, politicians don’t whatsoever have trust and confidence among themselves. Although they are busy forming amorphous political alliances and signing MoUs as we approach the next elections, fear of been dumped and taken for a ride is causing havoc and nightmares among politicians.
This is not good for our future as a stable democracy and promoting the culture of political maturity, decency, honesty and based on principles and rule of law.
In nutshell, let those who failed to honour the 2002 MoUs know they laid a firm foundation for the current politics of deceit, propaganda confusion and institutionalising lies which now pose the greatest threat to national stability and cohesion .
The architects of this kind of politics are responsible for the political promiscuity and immorality we witness today. They’ll be judged harshly by history and future generations for killing a nation’s dream and failure to institutionalise politics based on honesty, trust and ideology.{Enock Onsando, Mombasa}
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