Is President Uhuru Kenyatta a dictator?

There is a hidden story behind every politician, and this is what the public often fails to scrutinize. A good example is the incumbent president who is revered and hated with equal measure by those who support him and those who oppose his rule.

There are many untold stories about the president that he himself, and his team, would rather keep under wraps so that the public would never know and question. Only those with eyes and a keen insight are able to see beyond the outer shell and into discovering who the real person behind the presidential facade is.

I have always believed that the person people see in the president is just what he wants them to see. He maintains a whole communications team that acts as his public relations team as well as the propaganda team.

This team operates from State House and it has a vast outreach, especially in social media, where it is always working day-by-day to ensure that this false facade does not fade. Therefore, the person people see, as the president, is not really the person who the people expect to be in reality.

The president that the people are accustomed to is someone who is charismatic, enchanting, someone who loves to mingle with the public among many other attributes that makes him to be referred to as the “people’s president”.

Nevertheless, beneath that facade is an oligarch, who loves to consolidate power to himself. It is someone who is not accustomed to sharing and loves power, but slyly hides his ambitions under the guise of ‘power sharing’ deal. He has often been quoted as saying “my government…” and contradicting his deputy, who always refers to it as “our government…”

He is also someone who shirks away from responsibility, an attribute that has seen some people label him a coward. He is not in control of his own government. He has made those below him to create parallel forces of power.

He is an opportunist who only respects the law when it suits him and disregards it when it does not. He is a passive dictator. He uses proxies to fight his unscrupulous war for him, such as parliament, where his coalition party has the majority of the members. He is weak and can never take responsibility for any failure or mishap in his government.

To show the importance of unspoken language, in his speeches, he always uses terms like “we shall” or “we will” rather than “we have” or “we already have”. The latter two terms present a government that is confident in itself and that has a track record to show, while the former depicts a government that has a joyriding executive who is even unsure of where it is heading or even who is in command.

Honestly, Uhuru Kenyatta never ever wanted to be president. He only saw an easy avenue to use state resources and the power of the presidency to sabotage his ICC case from ever going forward.

In addition, he was chosen to preserve certain interests of the high and mighty, especially the so-called Mt. Kenya Mafia. He often acts like a puppet as if somebody is pulling his strings from the top.

But if am wrong and he ever wanted to be president, besides his ICC case, then he only wanted to ‘taste’ the presidency, but not really to serve the interests of Kenyans.

He seems to have forgotten that the presidency is about real hard work and not pampering business. He is not there to be entertained or to enjoy the hors d’oeuvre in State House. He needs to take his position seriously.

For now, it seems that he is only concerned with maintaining an image of a ‘cool’ president but this attitude is trivial and will only lead the country to more chaos, as we are experiencing now.