Storm over EALA nominees says a lot about our politics

East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) NASA nominee Norman Magaya at County Hall, Nairobi on Thursday 30/11/17. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

No sooner had the names been read than cries of nepotism and favouritism emerged over the nominees to the regional East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA). It read like a roll call of who knows and who is related to whom in the political class.

It is right for the public to feel cheated because these same politicians characterise the biblical preaching water and drinking wine. So whereas some parties chose to reward party loyalists who lost in the August elections, some chose blood line over anything else.