Dangling leadership carrot before women sign of desperation

The largest voting constituencies in Kenya are women and youth. Yet despite this, they are the least represented in terms of elective posts. The reason is simple; in a materialistic, patriarchal society where cultural norms deny women and youth economic empowerment, they get only what men allow them. In the political realm, Machiavellian misogynists hoard all the top positions, and the status quo is likely to continue through political deceit.

Despite having had more than six years to actualise the constitutional stipulation that no gender occupies more than two thirds of elective posts, all the Jubilee administration has demonstrated are perfunctory attempts designed to hoodwink the public. Despite Jubilee's numerical superiority in parliament, lack of quorum hit all parliamentary attempts to make the two-thirds, one-third representation a reality. This has been, and is likely to be the case for the remainder of Jubilee's term.