From: otieno sungu

In Kenya, it is strange to find the common man really brainwashed that whoever seeks leadership is an enemy of someone else he/she admires.

For this reason, we have criminalized those who aspire for leadership and whenever someone declares their interest, it is scorned and the “opponents” smear such a fellow for being “greedy for power”.Is is even a risk in some regions to imagine or even think of certain positions held by certain individuals, both leaders and their supporters will hunt you down like an animal.

We have all too often heard these arguments, that so and so is greedy for power, that so and so is only interested in power.If you seek leadership it is because you need the power/authority bestowed upon you to administer on behalf of the electorate.

I ask, and seek your indulgence, what is wrong with seeking or aspiring for leadership?

Now that Chapter 6 of our KATIBA defines categorically who ought to seek leadership, and the constitution guarantees any Kenyan of a certain age has a right to vote or seek elective positions, is there anything wrong with anyone seeking leadership?

I hope this is a sober discourse that we can indulge in, I am now introducing real politics, not what Nicholas Oyoo calls tribal postings couched as political commentaries.

Let us go with just the discussion, no names, just the discussion on this matter and see how many can sustain this debate intelligently without receding to name calling, invoking individual names etc.

Otieno Sungu