Fellow Kenyans, we are all hostages of a CORD mentality called, "it is wrong unless it favours me". In Kenya there is the government and the opposition. These ones are political entities. And then there are independent institutions that must be kept out of the political space so that we can be able to differentiate politics from the truths.
Let's accept this reality that ODM and CORD for that matter are led by a bunch of perpetual losers who always find solace in shifting goals posts and casting blames on others. They do this instead of accepting defeat or failure and moving on.
Before IEBC declared the Okoa Kenya initiative, 'energy used to chase a donkey', we all had two sets of outcomes in mind; a referendum or a declaration of CORD's failure to collect the required one million genuine signatures. Fortunately or unfortunately the latter happened.
Why then all the ‘heehaw’ about IEBC, Jubilee and the politics around it? Are we not putting IEBC and other independent institutions into a compromised state where the outcome must be a predetermined result that favours the expectations of those who feel aggrieved?
In that way, are we not taking away the independence of these institutions? Or we wanted IEBC to rubberstamp the initiative without much verification and declare a national referendum? In my own humble perception, IEBC undertook its legal and moral authority and it is usual and very well expected for CORD luminaries to cry foul.
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If we wanted the Issack Hassan led commission to rubberstamp the booklets and declare a national referendum without verifying the signatures, what was the point of taking those books to IEBC? Why are we finding it difficult to accept the fact that CORD failed to hit the target set by the Kenyan constitution?
Our independence, thinking and achievements should not be colonised by an individual who utterly failed to convince us that he is worth our votes over the years. Let's accept that Kenyans declined to buy the Okoa Kenya narrative, out rightly rejected it and IEBC confirmed the same. Now we can comfortably move on.
