OKENGO NYAMBANE: President Ruto should say no HANDSHAKE

Mar 31, 2023 - 09:48

Mar 31, 2023 - 11:10

OKENGO NYAMBANE: President Ruto should say no HANDSHAKE

Okengo Nyambane addresses the media

I saw US Senator Chris Coon arrived in the country ostensibly to midwife a HANDSHAKE between President Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga just like he did in 2017. In my opinion, President William Ruto Should stay put. Any attempt to surreptitiously subterfuge the new normal of governance in Kenya should be vehemently resisted by well-meaning Kenyans.

As a country, we should continue to speak out against the psychology of these warped individuals amongst us who are hell-bent on punctuating our collective journey to prosperous nation. Change is not easy. If we fail to counter these unpatriotic citizens whenever they come up with premeditated lethal lies that are meant to blackmail the government and force Handshakes, then, the man in us will continue to die in the face of winnable tyranny.

In civilized countries, the spirit of sportsmanship is the watchword in politics. People should learn to accept defeat and take their rightful seats in opposition. It shouldn't be a norm that every time people lose elections they find ways to government through a backdoor called Handshake.

These opposition are known for fabricating rumours and lies to score political gains. In the process, they are ignorantly sentencing themselves and Kenya back to primitive ages. They are non-correctable disfigurement of characters who are still thwarting the efforts to see a prosperous Kenya. How do these people sleep at night? They’ve excommunicated decorum from their values.

They seem corded or overtaken by darkness and benighted in the medieval periods. Every student of history knows that evils have not triumphed over good anywhere.They are perpetually doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Why? Because they continually fail to learn from those mistakes, mistakes dotted with either commission or schizophrenic intentions. Either way, these people need serious sustained attention. Unfortunately, they don’t know they have problems, they are everywhere.

It is unethical and antithesis to rational mind. It is also a damning evidence that Kenya seems to be suffering from generic sins. Raila Odinga, their political demigod, at the tail end of his troubled administration wrote his name in the positive chapter of our democratic history, but his fanatical followers, the collective children of anger seem not to have come to term or reality that their country is in a new dawn.

I concede that the greatest undoing to ourselves is to pretend we do not have problems. Kenyan problems are multifarious that the President is fighting hard to eradicate. We can pretentiously pray in the Mosques and Churches to eternity but if we don’t change our current collective values, the rat race is unending and it’s a belated journey to perfidy or a trip on a famished road to nowhere.

Lastly, the opposition has recruited some uneducated miscreants to insult the President. These reprobates who lack the moral scrupples are riding on a 'freedom of speech' to disrespect the head of state. Something should be done urgently. There must be a limit to freedom of speech. Character assassination of other person in a modern and participatory democracy is a serious defamatory lawsuit against the manufacturers. It is time we did something.