KENYA HAS A STERILE OPPOSITION IN BOTH THE SENATE AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

                            My condolences continue trickling in, to those who innocently lost their lives. My heart is with the survivors, who now are trying to pick on a new life. I know that life will never be the same again for them, although give it a new look, and you will realize that it will be the same. My anger is with the second and the fourth estate. I hold my anger with abated breath and now I am breathing fire.

                     The legislature has the opposition which checks the Government. The opposition asks the hard questions to the government which is expected that, the government will answer. Now comes the question, Do we have an opposition? I did not like the solidarity that was shown in the recent crisis because it killed responsibility, usurped in us the audacity to ask questions and neutralized the opposition and media. 

                          It seems as though no one wants to know what happened. As the clock ticks ominously, and night and days unfold, we slowly distance ourselves with the agony and torture of Westgate victims. We sit on TV every day, read newspaper every minute, Blog, tweet, facebook and do all kinds of things, but for God sakes where is the opposition? 

                               Why is it that the government is not being put on toes? Does it mean that sad means forgetting the cause to share in the loss? We all hugely lost, hey presto can we look for the cause and possible solutions? Can’t we know of what happened and forge from there? 

                                     My pain comes with the discovery that, despite open criticism on how the Westgate Mall issue was handled, the opposition has remained noncommittal. It has just lost its allure, and waits for the parliamentary committee to submit its report so that may be, it may comment. 

                                     I am no longer seeing press conferences. There are no rantings in public rallies. It seems like no one is attending the Sunday service anymore. The sad part of the story is; we are being called upon to unite. Every word that spews out of the mouth is unity emblazoned in the tagline, WeAreOne. Are we one in solidarity with those suffering or with those issuing no answers to questions we are asking? We can be one only if we get answers to questions asked. Or at least a picture of what really transpired on the fateful 21^st of September.

                                        I see a future society which is overridden by emotions. I see a future where, in cohorts with those who commit such heinous crimes, like the Westgate, we shall be sending our brothers and sisters into the soil day by day. I see a situation where, our love for the neighbor shall outweigh our reason to come to terms with everything that is besieging our sister. I see a situation where our leaders shall look at our every display of unity and keep mum as society, entangled in grief sings of unity and reaps at the expense our ignorance. 

                                       If the opposition refuses to bring reason by demanding for the immediate answers to questions beguiling us, then it is a good as sterile. You don’t have to look at your inadequacies and complain; you have to rise to occasion and perform to the best of your energy. 

                                        Everybody now believes that, the Westgate Mall attack was a terrorist attack. For God sakes, where are the terrorists. Do we know of the remaining hostages or at least their remains?  Will we ever receive justice for the slain victims? Will the families who have a missing relative come to know where their relatives are? 

                                 No one wants to answer to the above questions. No one wants to ask them. Everybody is complaining that there is little information that is being given. They all cry that someone is sleeping on job. The opposition in laxity is afraid to voice their opinions as they always do. 

                                I believe that if we worked out a rigid frame work of WeAreOne-isim; if we let those responsible shed light to what occurred and then, pick up the trail from there we shall overcome. The longer we keep complaining, the longer the opposition keeps sleeping, and the longer we continue with the adage of WeAreOne, the longer we shall stay in the dark. Another attack shall find us unprepared. We shall cry. We shall sympathize. We shall not ask questions. We shall WeAreOne. But, one thing shall remain clear we shall never be one with the truth that bedevils us.