CORD fails to notice changes in voters at its peril

Time is running out for CORD ahead of 2017. The reason is simple. The demands of the average Kenyan voter have changed. But the CORD leadership appears to have missed this fact by a mile.

It used to be that politicians could shout from podiums about ill-defined ideas – like justice and reforms – and then provide entertainment in form of jokes, singing and dancing, before sending voters home with T-shirts or tokens of money. Then politicians would rest easy that ethnicity would do its magic and secure the vote. But things have changed. The decade between 2003-2013 unleashed developmental achievements on a scale the country had never seen. Kenyans now know what is possible in terms of material development. And they are no longer going to take entertainment and token payments in exchange for their votes.