Why it is Time to Quit Politicking and Focus on Service Delivery

Is Kenya entirely becoming a politicking country where people talk politics year in year out with no tangible development going on?

Did Kenyans elect their Members of County Assembles, Members of Parliament, Women Reps, Senators and Governors for development or for politics?

Ever since the first general election this year, on 8^th of August, apart from the Presidential race, those elected have had their tongues wagging, talking politics. There is no single development going on the ground.

Is there something that Kenyan politicians can do beyond politics? The country is politicking more than working. What is good in politics if people are dying of hunger, victims of police brutality not getting justice for fear of being killed by the same police, people losing jobs because companies cannot sustain them and the economy entirely depending on foreign debts? What is good in such politics?

Some politicians in Kiambu have passed a law that forces public entities in the county to employ at least 70 percent of the dominant local communities in the county. This is to say, if the law goes through, which I think it will, 70 percent of every person employed in Kiambu County must be a Kikuyu. Really? Is that even close to the inclusion we have been singing about? What if all other counties start doing the same?

Some in Mombasa are calling for secession. They feel the region has been marginalized and that the government has never considered them for any development and for them, separation from the mainland is the only solution. Is it really a solution? Are we forgetting the simple saying of united we stand but divided we fall?

The problems facing the country as a whole are the same problems facing the people in the counties. Separating the nation is not going to solve these problems apart from making some people filthy rich and the majority totally poor.

The inclusivity that Kenyans are crying for can only be achieved when justice and truth are married together as a couple. We cannot purport to have inclusivity in the country when truth and justice are dreams, words that only make meaning in dictionaries.