From: otieno sungu

As we approach another electioneering year, it is upon all of us Kenyans to begin keeping score cards both individually and collectively. We must start recording the qualities of leaders who are angling for leadership.

Kenya is undergoing a lot of upheaval at the moment, we are grappling with socio-economic problems, we are faced with high cost of food and fuel prices, hunger,ever increasing unemployment and poverty.

Meanwhile, every little opportunity that most pretenders to the throne get to address Kenyans, it is not food security they talk about nor is it measures to mitigate the deaths from hunger, it is neither how to stall the sky rocketing food, fuel and the average cost of living.

While they wield the instruments of power and positions that allows them to sort out these problems, our so called leaders seem oblivious what responsibility such positions bestow upon them.

As they waste and squander the small positions they hold, busy angling for greater power while not accounting, like the Biblical slave given Talent and buried it to the ground instead of multiplying it, we should record their performances. Next year, we will be demanding the talents back, we will be asking each servant what he/she did with the Talent we gave them.

This is time to note the arrogant, the few who are retrogressing our march to a fully developed nation, those who use our August House to rape our democracy, stifle the full implementation of our KATIBA and make a mockery of our Parliamentary arm of government by trading reason for parochial, sectarian interests.

We must keep building these score cards, we will need to use the character and conduct of all the aspirants, their performance and how they have dealt with interest of the common man and Kenyans in general. We still have IPDs to be settle, we must interrogate those with responsibility of ensuring we settle fellow Kenyans in comfort and humane conditions. We must ensure they get justice and must interrogate those who continuously keep blocking the doors of justice for these victims so that we can achieve true national healing and reconciliation, we must interrogate the ones who spend millions of shillings for suspects rather than the victims.

We must remain one people, but above all,as a nation, we must keep our score cards ready for these interrogations.

Otieno Sungu is the Chairman of Vugu Vugu Mashinani.