The local media in Kenya, as well as the social-cum-digital media are all awash with stories about Raila Odinga blaming the incumbent government for influencing the youths in western province to protest with violence against his rallies. Raila implies that president Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy Mr. William Ruto are the master planners of violence that has rocked his rallies in western Kenya. He is wrong, These allegations are not true, the fact is that the youths from the Luhyia Nation as well as any other voter in a compos mentis station from this Luhyia nation will not vote for Raila Odinga without necessarily being influenced by any external force but out of their political rationality against the frivolous culture in the political camp of Mr. Odinga.
By making above baseless claims Raila Odinga is only doing his usual politicking like the ones he did sometimes ago around the presence Arthur brothers in Kenya. He often does this type of stuff to look like a political squab so that he wins public sympathy translatable into cheap votes. Facts are that, at that particular time of violent protest against Raila’s rallies in western province was the same time at which President Kenyatta was busy in the UNCTAD conference at Nairobi; he could not get time to degenerate into some political baseness like the one Raila Odinga is alleging.
No one needs specialized training to understand that by now the people of western province want a new, fresh, experienced and clear headed person to be their president come next year, this does not necessarily mean a person from their Luhyia tribe, but any Kenyan with character competence, vision and passion about Kenya , having no warped history to set straight. Given the theoretical parasitism and dogmatic ideologism Raila Odinga often displays, he thus automatically doesn’t fit in the specifications of the Luhyia Nation. Thus, the only logical argument that can be used to explain violent protests and rebellion against Raila Politics in western province is the real-politick phenomenon of electoral fatigue. This means voters fatigue or when a voter gets tired or gets bored by a politician. The people of Kenya have been voting for Odinga or socializing politically around a la Odinga politician since the colonial times, thus it is expected that with new hopes and avenues that the current government in Kenya has offered, the people have no otherwise but to achieve a collective disillusionment against demagoguery and political staleness like the one palpably observed in the current political personality of Raila Odinga, fact but nothing else.
Thus, there is logic , of schooled and cleverness, in words of Moses Wetangula that Raila Odinga must sober up to support any other Kenyan for presidency come the year 2017. Reasons for this position are bare; young voters being the majority don’t want Raila style of politics. I have practically observed this by attending all the rallies that Raila has held in western province during the last week, there is no usual old charisma but total disinterest fueled by national consciousness, a political virtue which Raila has totally abused in this region. This is why I encourage Raila Odinga to read or re-read Shakespeare’s Coriolanus or read about Falstaffity in the wordsworth Dictionary of Shakespeare or even go an extra mile to read Goethe’s Faust in which he will get the words of wisdom that,’ he who tames personal greed will prosper most’.
