All
defecting political leaders are citing Government-initiated projects as reason
for trooping to the Jubilee Party.
Further,
Jubilee Party honchos have argued that those who join them are assured of
development, moving forward.
The
'Tuko Pamoja' slogan of the Jubilee Party also seems to suggest that you are
either in Jubilee or you are a stranger to access resources meant for equitable
development, which is a prerogative of any Government in power. This thinking
is problematic for a myriad of reasons.
It
suggests that those shifting to Jubilee are to benefit from such development.
If development was to come due to such political association, this would amount
to tokenism and purchase of individual loyalty for development, and not
equitable development as envisioned in the Constitution.
It
is lost on such individuals that equitable development is a right and not a
carrot to be dangled for political support of the Government as it used to be
under the old constitutional dispensation.
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Also,
the thinking that development is occurring due to political association demeans
the various articles of the 2010 Constitution.