Dear Editor,

NB: Kenya¢s Calcifying Political Gangrene.

Politics in Kenya is awash with the celebrity impingement syndrome. In fact politics in Kenya is not a science that helps tackle the nation¢s challenges but is a celebrity sport that pits one group against another for competition purposes.
The current ethnic complexity of our societal re-modification seems to be a political abducting culture, worse for the nation.
The ever-fighting individual politicians whose assimilation only promotes lateral societal disintegration are exacerbating such national metastasis.
Political parties¢ acute cosmetic selectiveness is literally killing our homemade democracy and promoting adverse corruption and inequality.
We have seen political leaders being ¡nominated¢ by parties for by-elections on Kin-smith grounds when their next of kin die. This acute miscalculation creates room for sympathy elections and votes without considering leadership qualities as merit. Government and Parastatal heads are hired and fired at will to create room for cronies.
These and many more, including placement of unqualified journalists, TV and radio presenters and other so-called ¡celebs¢ by politicians for self-gain and romance is greatly contributing to this deficit. For example, the jigger fight is being re-defined in the celebrity world from its health-based socio-ethical and moral facet to a defeating populist contest.

Our politicians have thus introduced iatrogenic and wholly symptomatic means to advance their elusive competitive careers and destructive five-year worth. They do this by dislodging the roles of government and public institutions that have the capacities to face them head-on.

This nasocomial political ventures being infused into our ethnic veins would continue to break into our immediate societal values that make us not live as one, if we continue to worship such leaders. On the other hand sequential beneficiaries end up being what they are not only to marginalize those who deserve most.

The etiologically young that need parental mentorship are reduced into this ¡political world¢ by being enticed with crude incentives, recruiting agencies, promotion firms and institutions of higher learning, to help cross-over this sectarian social pre-occupation.

Certainly, the youth from poor economic backgrounds have no future. Yet the government and politicians continue to deceive and fleece their basic human rights. They only live as victims of their political masters with severely lacerated future. Our politicians¢ non-issues that touch on party, constituency and national leadership have overshadowed the youth.

On party politics, politicians are obsessed with ownership and leadership at the expense of policy changes, political goodwill and promoting national unity.

In fact wives of heads of such parties are given massive allowances and are used as stepping-stones on the walls of State House for popularity purposes. Conclusively they are but a liability to the taxpayers.

Such ideologies and political culture seem rather deceiving in our already deprived environment with widespread poverty, disease, unemployment, poor infrastructure, tribalism and ineffective developmental and economic policies for its people.

Thus, ordinary Kenyan citizens should not allow to be tethered by our politicians¢ populist sectarianism at the expense of equitable development, national unity and professionalism in society.
The culture of everyone calling oneself CEO for self gain and political reasons should end.

Regards,
Mundia Mundia Jnr.

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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:45:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: mundia mundia
Subject: KENYA’S CALSIFYING POLITICAL GANGRENE..