60 years ago, Kenya attained self rule, making it a sovereign nation. Thus, The Kenyan Constitution talks of the sovereignty of the people. This makes Kenya a state that is at liberty to elect leaders of their own choice.
Leaders who will act on their behalf through parliament. However, a deeper analysis of unfolding events shows us how meaningless sovereignty has been in Kenya.
For a long time now, Kenyans been given the illusion of autonomy. During campaigns, our leaders come to us masked in all sorts of costumes. Leading us to make uninformed and uncoerced decisions based on lies and unrealities. How this is affecting us as a nation becomes clearer with every leader we keep electing into office.
It is high time we began giving these leaders a probation period. A period in which they will work towards actualizing some of their top manifestos and promises. Failure to which should result in immediate eviction from office.
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Gradually, Kenyans have began referring to their Government as someone else’s. “Serikali ya flani” is now a common phrase. This comes as a result of Kenyans not feeling included in what is actually their Government. Our sovereign rights seem to end at the ballot box.
Lately, our leadership feels like, “I will do this and you shall respond like.” Which is very different from the pronouns used during campaign. It is ironical how our leaders speak of us building the nation together, only for them to end up doing that all by themselves.
The end result of this is a nation that is forced to comply. The rest of us are forced to go along with some big plan. A plan we know nothing of, because no one told us nothing about these plans in their campaigns.
No one is coming out to fully explain this grand plan to us. Furthermore, questions to these plans are met with elusive and more cunning answers. In the President’s remarks during the recently concluded Madaraka day celebrations, he thanked Kenyans for their noble ethic of willingness to struggle and embrace risks.
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It is sad that, for some reason, we are seen as a people that are willing to struggle. A people that willingly welcome situations that involve possible danger. It could be why we are subjected to more taxes. Finance Bill: Kenyans Rally Together in Online Petition Whether we will carry on with this noble ethic will be determined by how we act.
We wanted a Government that would make life easier and better for us. That is the government we were told we would have. That is the government we chose. The Government we have governing us right now is one that most Kenyans do not recognize. So much for sovereignty.
