Kenya's worst nightmare

During her rise to fame, American comic Roseanne Barr once quipped that she and then-husband Tom Arnold were "America's worst nightmare: white trash with money." Find parallels with the lawmakers this country has and we realize we always had a problem from the ground up.

Out of the days that we expected change, economic growth and hope from our leaders, now we just sit and hope that someone finds some sanity in all this madness. Today all I saw in the papers is an inclination that Kenya is a failed state. I wish someone would stand up and make an argument to the contrary but we all know where all the warmongers are. If the ICC did not make them retreat from their hard line positions, then the electorate are doing a good job at that. If there was ever a time one is not proud of their generation, this will be prominent among my memories. The situation is deplorable and tiring, inexcusable and sorry, pathetic and endless. Nothing works anymore, politics, petty at that seems to be the only crap we see on our news on any given day. Senses are out of the door as we sling crap at each other. I'm tired and assume so are the other millions of Kenyans. When did this country go to the dogs and on who's watch? Someone left their senses at the door and managed to officiate the worst governance of an emerging and stable democracy within the shortest possible time. You see what the political elite in this country do not know is that they cannot fool everyone all the time. Sooner or later someone will have to account for all of this degeneration.

We do not posses white trash but we definitely posses a similar case in our societal context. From under a dollar a day to controlling the assets of ministries, the whole idea of a nightmare creped in within the shortest time. Guzzlers, enormous bank accounts from public funds, irresponsible roadside statements, tribalistic venom and disappointing choices of ties for the poor suits, you really need a sociologist to get all this.. The List in the ICC is the best thing that could have happened. Politicians have simmered down, people are hurrying into meetings trying to look purposeful, some are talking in terms only attributed to the guilty facing the executioner. You see the problem sirs, there is no excuse for violence. Whether an election was stolen or not, there is no excuse. Live with it. If there was no confidence in taking election grievances to the courts, I think the parallels with the perpetrators of violence is clear. There will be no justice so all that talk about a local tribunal is hypocritical. I woke up with a funny dream today.... and someone in this dream had a sorry look. Our white trash just lost all that was never theirs in the first place.