In a country where personality cult drives national politics, the signing of a new law allowing defectors change parties without seeking fresh mandate from voters has simply signaled the end of political entities.
Ideal democracy demands that one makes conscious and well thought out choices. A decision to join and seek power on a party ticket should be guided by certain principles.
Thus such a decision is binding to the extent that one remains in the sponsoring party.
When an individual finds the ideals and principles of sponsoring party are no longer tenable, the best thing is to resign and seek fresh mandate from the electorate.
Kenya is now headed for a chaotic regime of political parties. Consequently, our politics will be chaotic since the provision meant to instill discipline among party members has been removed.
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The enactment of the Political Parties Act should have been endorsed to address party hopping that often leaves parties in a total mess. The Act was the beneficiary of the practice. We are back to the old ways of defections.
Just like the watering down of the leadership and integrity law in the Constitution, Kenyans will regret the enactment of this defectors' law.
There will be no stable political parties in our country. We shall see more brief case parties emerge. Is this what we wanted under the new Constitution? Pure tendency to change laws for convenience will destroy this country.
