In pursuit of power NASA must make the people feel they too belong

NASA Co- Principals

All politics is about power. It is about the use of authority and influence to distribute and enjoy opportunities. It is, indeed, about control and management of resources and determination of who gets what, how, when and why. This is what the great thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment have taught us, from Thomas Hobbes, through John Locke, Michel Montagne, all the way to later political science giants like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Paine and the American philosophers Ralph Emerson Waldo and his protégée Henry David Thoreau.

People go into politics because they want to have a significant say in how society is organised. But, beyond that, they want to have a say on how the wealth in their society is distributed – complete with the benefits that accrue from it. They want to organise the relationship between fellow human beings and the resources in their environment and the relationship among human beings relative to the resources. That is where laws come in. The laws determine how people get into power and leave it. It is hypocrisy of the highest order for a politician to accuse another one of pursuing power. Show me a politician not interested in power and I will show you a liar. Ever since this National Super Alliance (NASA) thing happened, the Kenya government has lost focus on its agenda. Where this government should be telling us about what it is doing and what more it could do for us, it is wasting far too much time on telling us about NASA leaders and their pursuit of power. Of course, Raila Odinga and his friends in NASA want power. It is also true that in order for them to stay together, they have had to craft a promissory power sharing formula of sorts. It is anyone’s guess whether this formula will give them state power or not. One thing remains, however. I want them to begin telling me what is in it for me as a citizen.