By Jackson Omondi
STATE OF THE NATION
The Jubilee administration just handed CORD a golden opportunity to repudiate Jubilee's faux achievements and agenda.
What more can one ask for? Jubilee chose an award winning corruption superstar to make its case! How easy can we have it?
Watching the DP talk about the war on corruption was like watching a 'panda mbegu preacher' talking about righteousness! It doesn't get any easier than that!
The nauseating tutorial about electricity proliferation was the starkest irony!
A country with hundreds of thousands of schools in which kids study under trees was being treated to a lecture on school zone electrification! Damn.
On the utumishi kwa wote welfare, the cops who can barely get privacy in their households, much less fend for their families must have felt like they were living in Pluto!
Oh, and the digit-dropping presentation missed the intended audience because most Kenyans are condemned to routine power rationing! There is no amount of empirical data that will convince cosmopolitan dwellers that Jubilee finally figured a way out for them while they spend many hours or sometimes days without electricity!
It's funny that the DP heralded Jubilee's 'stepping aside' policy as an effective means of fighting corruption when we all know that people who matter to them get politically sanitized and then get right back to work! Heck, some seek 'lighter duties' that turn out to be heavier than their previous responsibilities!
From a political strategy point of view, the guy who decided to give the DP this kamikaze pilot duty is a genius! Why? If you are an administration that's embroiled in eternal corruption and political chicanery, and you have an incumbent that MUST win reelection and if you front him out on TV to make the case for a failing government, you will decisively tarnish his image and wound him politically. Why would you give him a poisoned chalice? I would not!
The UK geniuses picked the loudest chest thumper with the biggest mouth and sent him out to make a fool out of himself in the name of 'making the case' for Jubilee.
When it was all said and done, the Kenyan people saw the only Jubilee Principal, who still has ICC issues and has been adversely mentioned in several corruption cases, making the case against corruption! Just imagine the number of Kenyans who picked up on the glaring oxymoron! Kenyans are not stupid.
By the way, UK still remains 'clean.'
Talk about political real estate to work with! Over to you CORD! Don't blow this up.
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