Kenyan Idiot

These past few weeks have been a fast paced rollercoaster ride that leapt between the pride of the nation to the pits of shame and disgust. I for one was a proud voter and on August 4th I woke up earlier than usual had nothing to eat and made my way to the polling station, which I’m glad to say was not far from where I reside. The whole exercise took mere minutes after which the pinkie of my left hand was doused in purple ink for all to see. The problem I have now is how to get the pesky ink – now black – off, it went from looking good and a reason to brag to appearing like a child had let loose with a Crayola black marker! Then stayed up all night and into the wee hours of the morning, peeking into the minute by minute broadcast on my favourite TV station, it truth I only stayed up out of fear of waking up the next morning and finding that the results had been skewed. I had to finally tear myself away from the smiling, but most likely equally exhausted faces being beamed live onto ...

We have survived the quagmire and made it back into the light, sane and undaunted by the surrounding clamour. We have read between the lines and un waxed our ears for a better deduction of the cold, hard facts. I for one am gladder than most that tomorrow, I will get a chance to have my feelings and thoughts heard and that those in postitions of power will be forced to live with my decision whether they like it or not. In short I feel quite powerful. It is because of this power that I will sacrifice the un yielding, warmth and comfort of my quilt covered bed, get dressed and march straight to the voting centre, single minded and prepared to affect change. If you're not Kenyan or are thoroughly confused and haven't caught on to what I'm going on about, tomorrow we Kenyans prepare for a new dawn with a fare amount of trepidation over the after effects... we will go to the polls and vote either to enact a new constitution or not. But as tomorrow is still too far away (especi...

The Weekend ended on a low for me and all other football fans that dared support the Netherlands when they went up against the Matadors of Spain. I will try to limit my ranting about the horrid refereeing not only in the last match but throughout the tournament! A good thing to come out of the human error mess is that it forced Sepp Blatter and FIFA to reopen the case on goal line technology; hopefully we will not have to sit through any more agonizingly bad calls that mar the beauty of the game. At this juncture a standing ovation must go to S.A for organizing a great tourney! Back to Kenya and the failings of our system... Those who were responsible for Uhuru Park grenade incident are yet to be brought to book, this even after the military joined the search for the culprits. But they are hard at work and a report of their finding will be delivered ASAP. But by far the thing that has irked me the most is that our MP's are intent on increasing their salaries and perks exponent...

The world cup has enthralled and monopolised both my time and my sleep and all though I have born witness to every game so far and will continue to do so until the final whistle is blown on July the 11th I am not completely oblivious to the goings on around the country. So this will serve as a quick catch before I resume my place at the sofa in front of the box that will transport me to SA. In the few weeks since I last stroked the keys of this keyboard, and sat before this blank page to compose my thoughts. Three grenades have exploded at Uhuru Park. It was a Sunday like any other and the politicians of the No campaign thought it a good idea to hold a campaign at the park to air their on all that is wrong with the document. It was going well until an explosion somewhere in the crowd brought the proceedings to a halt; this happened twice more killing 5 people and injuring 79. It seemed all too unreal to me as I caught up with the news, as if something out of an action movie... but thi...

The constitution is still this weeks talking point as a new poll conducted by Synovate. According to the poll the yes camp is still leading but are losing ground to a continually resurgent no campaign, and as leaders continue to criss- cross the country in search of all important votes spanners are constantly thrown into the works to greet them. Last week that spanner came in the form of Kadhis’ courts. The furore began when three judges declared the clause in the constitution on Kadhis’ courts un constitutional. In the landmark ruling, the judges sitting as a Constitutional Court, said the decision to include the kadhi courts in the country's supreme law was an illegality that favoured one religion over others. The two opposing Green and Red camps immediately leapt into action, with the Greens (otherwise known as those in the Yes corner) quick to assure the public that the judgement would not halt the referendum, while their Red counterparts (consisting of members of the clergy...

I for one did not think things could get any more bizarre than they were I was proven very wrong this past week as the famous party of three was back in our faces, pointing the finger of god at us and declaring, in all seriousness – yes they were serious - that they were seeing red and saying no to the proposed constitution - to be voted on by the public come August 4th – and that they were each vying for parliamentary seats come 2012. They added that Hellon shall be vying for the Rongo seat, Easther will try her luck in Ratchwonyo and in perhaps the most bewildering and austentatious political move in a long time Quincy Timberlake announced bold and undaunted that he would be running for a seat in Langata the Prime Ministers constituency. Now if you still don’t know why these three sat down, thought about then decided to name their political party after an organ in the uterus of a pregnant mammal, well Joseph Hellon, says that the country is in a ‘gestation period’. Their tag line is...

ERROR: Mistake, Something not done correctly OR to be wrong in conduct or judgment. This week the weather was atrocious and it gave us something to moan about other than politics and just when we thought that would be the only bothersome topic we were all forced to re think, sit up and take notice of the ‘storm in a teacup’ that brewed all too suddenly, as once forgotten errors came back to haunt the government and most especially the AG. As the proposed constitution hit the AG’s desk for editing, he promised only to add full stops, commas and to correct any grammatical errors, and all seemed well, that is until the 47 page document left his desk and went into Gitonga Rukwaro’s hands for publishing. The document was then released to the public as a pull out in their daily papers. All was well and civic education was soon to begin – someone once said that when things are too good to be true then it probably is – but were to be awoken form the lull by the ghost of errors past come b...