CORD should make State accountable to Kenyans

NAIROBI: From my perspective, it is not the business of the Opposition to make the government succeed; that would be the surest way to committing political hara-kiri, Japanese for suicide. A good Opposition should harangue the government, make it appear to have failed in its responsibilities to the tax payer in order to make it more accountable. That could explain why Republicans in America don’t grant quarters to Democrats; always portraying President Barack Obama in negativity. It is why they have Donald Trump tramping all over the place preaching balderdash.

Anything short of that is a recipe for complacency within the narrow corridors of power. That, sadly, is the prevailing situation in Kenya. When it should have kept the government on the straight and narrow, the Opposition appeared to sulk over the 2013 electoral loss. Compounding matters, it has been swamped by the obnoxious tyranny of numbers which has unerringly led Kenya into the quagmire we find ourselves.