Referendum can’t be about selfish agenda of leaders

The conversation on the Kenyan Constitution after the fabled March 9 handshake has remained narrow and self-serving. Where it should be on the country and her people, it remains solidly on the leaders and even then, just a handful of them. The discourse has refused to move beyond what kinds of executive positions should be created for whom. This smacks of selfish appetite for power. Only a nation of sheeple would accept a referendum to authorise this.

In 1945, British radio journalist W R Anderson defined sheeple as a passive people whose leaders treat them as if they were a flock of dense-headed sheep. Sheeple will be shunted about and made to uncritically accept whatever decisions are thrust down at them. Accordingly, the selfishagenda about reconstructing the Executive of Kenya has taken it as a matter of course that the national sheeple will accept whatever they will be told to do at the much-hyped referendum.