Ruto’s Leadership Style Has Given Birth To Transactional Democracy Which Has Given The Crime Syndicate An Opportunity To Govern Kenya

Octavia E. Butler in his book, Parable of the Talents, says that we MUST Choose our leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery and of course, this is the unfortunate situation that we find ourselves in as Kenyans.

His quote made me think of Kenya and Kenyans in how we pick and elect our leaders. We are the worst country in the world when it comes to picking leaders. We have politicians who lie more than the devil himself. We have politicians who steal more than Ali Baba and the forty thieves. We have politicians who claim to be honest more than Pinocchio himself.

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The leadership style of the 5^th President of Kenya has given birth to a new form of democracy in Kenya called transactional democracy. Where the essence of democracy here is about who has the money to buy their way through. This form of democracy is worse than military dictatorship as it has given rise to a league of super thieves whose sole agenda is to loot public coffers so that they can have the currency needed for them to be in power. More than 60% of the elected politicians have an active criminal case and they are linked to money laundering, gold scamming schemes, organized crime, witchcraft, and wash-wash.

Our beliefs affect our choices. Our choices shape our actions. Our actions determine our results. The future we create depends upon the choices we make and the actions we take today. Unfortunately, it’s like Kenyans are the devil’s representatives here on earth because we seem to pick politicians who are thieves, rapists, terrorists, and murderers, not to mention lazy and greedier than pigs themselves. We seem to have forgotten that these choices we have been making for the past decade have matured and are now calling in their debts and it’s us, ordinary Kenyans who are dearly paying for the price.

In Kenya, we have no leader who is elected. Those elected are just smooth politicians who used every possible negative virtue to get to office. Kenya has less than two leaders. Unfortunately, these two are not elected to any office. Transactional democracy has killed our Constitution and weakened all KEY institutions that are critical for the management of the country and the checks and balances that are meant to exist between the three arms of government.

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Criss Jami, Salomé in his book; In Every Inch In Every Mile says that Time and time again the pride of man influences his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; as a result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner. Salomé was clearly talking about the Kenya Kwanza Government. Every day they condemn the past leadership of Uhuru and when they realize their audience is tired they change their tune and start condemning Raila. No single day have they taken responsibility. No single day have they told the truth. No single day have they acknowledged their shortcomings. They have made it clear, it’s their way or the highway.

President Ruto the other day said that we do not understand why the cost of living is high and that because of our ignorance, we have no tangible solutions to offer except ma