Jubilee experiment has failed Kenyans

A majority of Kenyans are groaning, a predicament aptly contextualised by Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist paper No 15 (a series of articles James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay submitted to newspapers for publication between 1787 and 1788) when he wrote: "This is the melancholy situation which we have been brought by those very maxims and councils which deter us from adopting the proposed constitution; and which, not content with having conducted us to the brink of precipice, seemed resolved to plunge us into the abyss that awaits us below. Here, my countrymen, impelled by every motive that ought to influence an enlightened people, let us make a firm stand for our safety, our tranquility, our dignity, our reputation. Let us at last break the fatal charm which has too long seduced us from the paths of felicity and prosperity.”

A tired Kenyan nation has hobbled to the point it needs to take up Hamilton’s challenge. For far too long, we have been treated to maxims that add no value to the lives of ordinary Kenyans battling diseases, drought, illiteracy, famine, corruption, social inequalities, collapsed Government systems, job losses, insecurity, extra-judicial executions, State intimidation and Executive intolerance.