Truth be told.I never new this guy the way i know him now. How i wish i was a nairobian voter.

Yes. But this path has its pains. Yet it is the way of nobility.

I also agree with you @2012. Let us come together and build our city, our world.

Sometimes when life throws you lemons you have to decide to make lemonade or a lemon twist cocktail as the other choice is giving up.
Even God used the evil Saul who later became the biggest evangelist for Christ. So what is this that we can't even try? Middle class holds the most power of any society, it's the heart of the society. Think of yourself and the knowledge you're sitting on helplessly. Who are you waiting for to change your society? Anyway as the good Mr. Henry Ford said, whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.

What is to be done?

The so called "mido class" in our case has failed to lead the movement of the masses against the oppression by the elites in collaboration with neocolonialists and their attendant domination of all aspects of life economy, political and social. We have failed to espouse the ideals of such great leaders as Lenin:

Revolutionaries, however, lagged behind this upsurge, both in their “theories” and in their activity; they failed to establish a constant and continuous organisation capable of leading the whole movement.

To the great poor urban masses, Yt2 and Sonks are their Lenin, they expouse albeit in a crude manner the daily struggles of the hoi poloi.

Democracy, when fairly practiced, is a numbers game and Waititu and Sonko have this mastered to a t.

I don't even know why Sonko bothers with the media – most of the people who will vote for him don't have TV and the watching ‘middle class,’ who are deriding him, will largely, not vote.

Therein lies Wanjiru and Kidero's dilemma. They appeal to an economically powerful but numerically weak demographic; one that will not take them to parliament - lucky that it is numbers that matter, not share holdings or bank balances or years of study.

Think of it as the poor man’s revenge.

As long as the so called elite insist that politics is a dirty game (in other words, beneath them) then the Waititus and Sonkos of this land will continue to rule.

Not that this is a bad thing, in my opinion.

Those who think that status equals wisdom are well advised to read the story of Azdak, the poor man’s judge, in Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle."

Last night he was asked to explain the source of his wealth; he said something like: "My father was a big businessman in Mombasa.... and I inherited from him.... so I come from a poor family"!

Which is it?

The guy is completely fake!!

I wouldn't vote for him for ANY seat!!!

@simon, sio kwa ubaya, was just checking previous posts for contradictions, how people change!!

Today


In June 2011

Yeah, the same way that we are supposed to forget that in the office of the premier,there was a scandal,nay ,scandals ?

Archives don't matter really. My opinion can change any minute, my thinking is not cast in stone. That is how a normal human being operates. So, less know, you wanted me to orgasm at the candidature of BMW?

@mawinder, yet you have no choice but to vote for him, sio?