Kenya: CORD has asked the national government to furnish it with a publication by the Public Service Commission detailing appointments since elections and the composition of various senior government offices among other details.
This is laughable at best and the surest sign that the Opposition has lost the plot and is grappling with flimsy excuses to try and justify their past perennial failures. Why so?
Anyone who followed the Wage Bill debate might have come to the realisation that the Public Service employs only about 200,000 Kenyans. Juxtapose this to a population of 40 million Kenyans, and one will suddenly realise that CORD lacks even the most basic understanding of the problems that Kenyans face!
Even if the approximate 200,000 public service jobs were given to individuals of CORD’s own choosing, this would still leave millions jobless.
CORD should have been busy at work trying to figure out where the other millions of unemployed Kenyans should be getting their livelihoods from.
Of course, since it is clear that their agenda is of a political nature, they will continue to have their eyes focused on the fly that’s hovering over their plate instead of on the lion that’s devouring the food in the pot.
Regarding the rest of the demands, does CORD want to render the Auditor-General irrelevant? Rome wasn’t built in a day and to expect the current administration to deliver results barely a year after its election is tantamount to expecting a tree to grow and bear fruit within a day!
It is irresponsible to try and convince Kenyans that the problems they face have been caused by the current administration, when these problems have been building up from before the country gained its independence.
If the IEBC is guilty of committing gross violations and frauds as CORD claims, why did the legislators affiliated to it accept their offices?
Whoever heard of a man, who, after learning that there was poison in the pot, still went ahead to pick out and devour some choice meat parts from the same pot claiming that the poison hadn’t touched those succulent pieces?
Should the Government break the law? Should it have used unaudited accounts, contrary to the provisions of the Constitution, thereby breaking the law?
What if the Government had decided to audit the accounts of the financial year immediately preceding the financial years in question?
Would the newly created devolved units have had the patience to wait for new audits to be carried out before receiving funds?
What prevented the former PM from declaring corruption a "National Disaster" when he was at the helm of Government? Why is it, that after an illustrious career, spanning a number of decades (which is the same case for the former VP and also the man from Bungoma, who for years held various senior government positions), it is only now that the former PM recognises that corruption is “systemic” and pervasive? Could it be that it’s because he is no longer part of the “system”?
Corruption in the country needs to be tackled. Again, is corruption really about the leaders? Where do leaders come from? Don’t they come from society? How then does CORD expect the people to produce leaders who are morally upright when it has become the order of the day for every man, woman and child to bribe the police or council askaris when charged with an offence?
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Has it not become a norm for parents to hand over a few thousands for their children to be admitted to schools perceived to be good, or to land their sons and daughters jobs, even in the private sector? Should CORD then be looking at the leadership or at the people?
How can CORD fault the Grand Coalition Government of increasing Kenya’s debt when one of its principals was a coalition partner? Heck, all the CORD principals were part and parcel of the Grand Coalition government?
The call for Saba Saba by CORD demands that we visit the past when instead we should be moving forward and into the future.
We are only supposed to learn from the past, but not live in it. Saba Saba did its part in history and it will forever be ingrained in our memories. But the place for Saba Saba is in our past.
The liberties that were sought have already been acquired. Nostalgia is good, but just about as good as memories of our high school days - they are fond memories but we have since grown up and are now engaged in the business of developing ourselves and our country.
How does such a gathering stop the detonation of bombs or the failure of crops due to climate change? How would such a gathering contribute to the creation of jobs?
The CORD principals have enjoyed lives of luxury for decades. How would they understand the suffering of the masses?
How would a trio of rich, gray-haired men know the plights of the many struggling youths, or the challenges faced by the myriad of Kenyans living below the poverty line?
There is a time to rise and a time to fall. We must all recognise this fact, and have our eyes open to the day when we finally come to the end of our relevance. This time has long come and gone for some of the CORD principals. They already made their greatest contribution to the country.
Their time is already gone, and they need to let go of the reins they were once able to handle.
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