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DON’T GIVE ME THE SUPREMACY BULLSHIT



The impeached and reinstated Embu governor Wambora could just have opened a Pandora’s Box. What is the import of the constitution if the institutions it establishes do not abide by the law? It beats wind out of the air just to stare at the Kenyan elite tearing at each other with supremacy talk.
Did we establish these institutions to check on the excesses of each other or did we establish supremacy debates? There should be a way in which we can reach consensus or else we be done with the current constitution and go to the former tattered constitution.
How can a country progress when every score is vindictive whence settled? We cannot allow Kenya to be sacrificed at the altar of greed and foolish outbursts. We cannot sit and observe the senate of foolish idiots grit its teeth to the county executive. We do not want to see the county governors, on the other hand like intellectual idiots lash out at the senate.
Such scenes are retrogressive and irritating. Are we so dumb that we cannot make institutions that can marry into each other and at least live happily ever after? Are our individual differences so promiscuous like teenagers that they cannot be quenched by compromise? Voices of reason and interpretive harmony are tools of progress. Selfless and control of personal emotions are key ingredients to cohesion. Accountability and responsibility are the only things that can send Boniface Mwangi into peaceful retirement.
We have become a society of constant wining. We have moved from man eat man societal to man eat men and still goes down under. We are no longer a nation. We are a jungle where, even in the real jungle, there is more reason than in ours.
As citizens, we need not protest for good to be done. We are tired. We elect in men into our offices only for them to turn wolves. What beats is how easy it is for a man to become a wolf and remain a man! Is leadership so inept that it breeds cannibalism instead of reason?
We need not find excuse for our disarray. Our current clamour for supremacy is born from our egotistical selfishness. It stems from colonial orphanage and poor or rather inadequate intellectual awareness. Our education is mottoed on the adage that the roots are bitter and the fruits sweeter which every interpretive African educated idiot on the seat of leadership takes to mean human oppression and greedy repossession.
When the new constitution was promulgated in 2010, every Harry told Tom that Dick will conform to it. It turns out that, the senate wants the constitution to conform to its wishes while the institution of governors is afraid of what the senate can do! Lest we forget, the National Assembly, which is supposed to be independent and check on the executive sits like a satisfied rabid dog as the executive squeezes the last of juices from the common mwanainchi.
Why then did we vote them in?

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