"Not only can we afford to loose them, we want to. What experience do they bring?"
"Yes we can. Most of them are talented in corruption, tribalism, useless politics and other ills. I won't name names"I must say I expected this. A knee-jerk reaction driven more by emotion than reasoning.
If this lot of leaders, and there type are so bad, how come we vote for them every time?
The fact is we need them, even if only for the purpose of reflecting our true corrupt natures back at us. For indeed if we put corrupt, incompetent, racist/tribalistic people in power, and knowingly too; what does that say about us?
But let us be positive for a change: we have banked over 20 years of tremendous socio-political and economic change in our country. Change which we now take for granted even as we demand better leaders (leaders we would not recognize if they bit us in the backside).
Guess which leaders brought these benefits? The same lot we are about to chuck into the dustbin – with a change project that has barely taken off. And exactly where shall we get the leaders to help us complete the reforms that have started? Right here in corrupt Kenya.
We are about to hand over the scalpel to an inexperienced surgeon, mostly because we don’t like the look of the one who did the first half of the operation. The fact that no one seems to think this is a concern bothers me.
And if you think the untested lot of greenhorns we are about to assure into power are angels, wait and see.
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)