Uhuru Kenyatta versus Raila Odinga game is a testimony of leadership failure

I have not chosen the good office of Bishop. Not yet. But because prophesy has been politicised and the truth exchanged with pestilence, I will call the Uhuru-Raila tiff by its name. It is a dangerous game, a national shame and the loudest demonstration of leadership failure.

It is Prophet Ezekiel in the Bible who says "...if the watchman sees the sword coming, and blows not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword comes and takes any person from among them, that person is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand"... (Ezekiel 33:6...).

I sit in the watchman's office. And, being a custodian of the public's right to know, I have a civic duty to speak truth to power in the best interest of my motherland. The King is naked! I dare shout. Because if I don't, his children will bear witness to the King's nakedness. And a curse will befall the palace. A curse will befall this country.

I am a bitter Kenyan. Bitter with President Uhuru Kenyatta. And bitter with CORD leader Raila Odinga. I am fed up with their public display of misplaced entitlement as Kenyans choke under the stench of death. The country's top leadership across the political divide is engaged in a political game designed to produce losers all the way. A game underwritten by suffering, destruction, bloodshed and death at every stage. And as Uhuru and Raila play on, buoyed by their cheering squads led by Deputy President William Ruto and former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, Kenya is slowly but surely sliding into anarchy.

This must be said. Loudly and with clarity. This country owes Uhuru nothing. Kenyans owe Raila nothing. In fact, the elevated positions they hold have been donated to them by Kenyans. The state of the Kenyan nation must of necessity be the melting pot for the antagonistic political persuasions of our leaders.

Ordinary Kenyans are trapped in an intricate web of insecurity, corruption and tribalism. Families are being devastated by the inability of parents and guardians to provide basic needs. Ordinary, innocent citizens have become a soft target of plotters of evil who repeatedly destroy, maim and kill with shocking ease.

Let us step back and think through this. Can our leaders, who seem to have a superficial and academic view of the suffering of Kenyans, provide solutions to the pressing challenges facing this country?

The leadership call has been placed to both Uhuru and Raila. It is a call of duty. And both have declined to pick it. Why? Both have egos to pacify. Both have political constituencies to please. Both have their eyes firmly fixed on 2017.

In the meantime, Kenyans are falling by the sword of a slippery enemy. Those who escape the sword are imbibing poison to their graves. And the teetotalers are under the firm grip of an ever-increasing burden of life.

The irony is that both Uhuru and Raila agree that Kenyans are suffering. Both agree that leaders must cross ranks and confront the serious challenges facing Kenyans and seek home-grown solutions. But they won't agree on the venue of such conversation. What a failure. What a pity.

And in their shameful pursuit of narrow personal and political gluttony, members of both houses of Parliament – the National Assembly and Senate – have failed to hold the country's top leadership to account on behalf of Kenya and Kenyans. The clergy would have been best placed to steer the country back on track. But they ceded that moral responsibility a long time ago when the pulpit became an extension of the political podium.

At this rate each one of us will be on our own. Only God will save us. And He will. Because at the fullness of His timing, He shall make things beautiful for every Kenyan. The watchman has blown the whistle.