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MCAs have set ball rolling; other leaders too need study tours

Counties

Kenya Airways plane

Some sour souls seek solace in the most salacious of accusations. Unable to get their hold on the money that has been poured all over our governors to develop their counties, some of our MPs and senators have jealously demanded that the counties stop going on their now-famous trips overseas.

They appear to have a point at first glance: in one strange case, a Member of County Assembly (MCA) who admitted to not speaking a word of English was sent off on a tour of Italy’s cultural hotspots. Presumably, the Italians speak Swahili.

But the example has been set much higher up: our national football team, Harambee Stars, are perennial underachievers. They struggle to beat even poor old Somalia, and qualifying for any serious continental or global tournament is definitely out of question for them.

Valuable lessons

President Uhuru, clearly an exasperated football fan, sent our misfiring footballers to Brazil to go see how serious football teams do their business.

Presumably, they have absorbed valuable lessons in the fine art of winning football matches for the time that they have been spending our money at the Mundial, and we expect an immediate improvement in results when they get back to playing football again.

One hopes, though, that none of them chose to claim asylum in Brazil, a not-uncommon habit among African footballers who go abroad to better-run, richer places. As was reported to have happened with a bunch of Ghanians after the World Cup.

And so on to the governors. If footballers can step their game up – quite literally – by watching other teams play, imagine how much more our MCAs, governors and other politicians can improve their performance by visiting places that are actually run properly, which look like countries should look like.

Places where rubbish is collected, there is permanent electricity and running water actually gushes out of the taps. And life is not just one political rally after the other. Come to think of it, maybe the president and his Cabinet also need a trip overseas!

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