Commentary By Leo Odera Omolo

I should like to extend my passionate appeal to the opposition groups both inside and outside parliament to give the young jubilee government the breathing space of time so that it could implement its election pledges and carry this country to the next level of development.

This government needs sufficient time to enable it to plan well its development activities and programmers. But it could not do so because the opposition groups have kept it on its toes with flurry of destructive criticisms and allegations one after the other making look like if Kenya is permanently on the election mood.

The elections comes and goes, and those who lost their seats and positions during the March 4, 2013 general election should now take the back seats, go home and take care of their cows, goats and sheep if they had any and allow President Uhuru Kenyatta and his teams of youthful technocrats to work under the peaceful atmosphere and in harmony.

Equally important is that there should be only one government’s spokes man who is well versed and fully conversant with the government policy and not not the so-called Tom Dick and Harry.

These characters at times act as agents of confusion through their frequent sycophantic outbursts, which often fell short of convincing Kenya that they are the right defenders of the government.

In this context, I have in mind the like of the Hon. Aden Duale the majority leader in Parliament and the Starehe MP Hon Maina Kamanda and other Jubilee supporters who have been displaying their political mediocrity and naivety each time they opened up in the name of defending the government. Some of these people need to have their statements officially cleared by the government spokesman before such statements are released for public consumption. Kenya is a country of civilized and highly educated men and women, and not a banana state like the neighboring Somalia.

Constructive engagement is the best way of running a country. Therefore our politicians who are engaged in criss-crossing the full length and width of the country while feeding the people with empty poetical slogans and pack of lies are doing a disservice to this nation. THe people need time to cultivate their farms and plant new food crops so that they have enough to eat and not empty political rhetorics based on malice. There will be no other elections until the year 2017 therefore those who wanted to stay afloat and remain relevant in our national politics should strive to find other gainful engagements and allow the Wananchi enough time to go about their daily cores.

The jubilee government is only eight months old in office and as such cannot solve all the problems affecting the Kenyan people overnight. In needs sufficient time to settle down and plan well forth future.

President Kenyatta, I am sure for certain meant well for Kenyans and only need time to implement the government programmers without frequent disruption and endless political agitation by the disgruntled losers of the March 4, elections. Kenyan are so happy that the President appear to be committed to reaching every communities including those living in areas and region which voted against his jubilee coalitions. This is a wonderful political magnanimity on his part, which should be highly appreciated by all Peace-loving Kenyans.

We should all appreciate that managing the state affairs is quite different from seeping a glass of beer or whisky.

Let us all hope that the new year with restore sanity in the minds od the disgruntled oppositionists.

LEO ODERA OMOLO IN KISUMU CITY