Put service first before politicking

Former AFC Chairman and current Nairobi City County Assembly Speaker Alex Ole Magelo, during a press conference at Beoulevard Hotel. [Photo: Jonah Onyango/Standard]

Anyone coming to Kenya for the first time and reading the dailies this week would think the General Election is just a few days away. The bravado with which CORD and Jubilee coalitions went for each other’s jugular was not only unnecessarily emotive, but it demonstrated a clear departure from the desire to make 2016 a year of making amends on what might not have been achieved last year.

The Jubilee side, apparently in its ongoing “inspection of development projects” in Western and Coast regions seems to have pricked the Opposition by its politically loaded forays. The Opposition, in an apparent panicky mode, shot up and accused the Jubilee government of applying Kanu tactics to raid its territories. Midweek, the Jubilee brigade reconvened, and backed by State House, applied equal opposite force and shredded the Opposition’s accusations terming CORD leader “a doyen of graft” in Kenya.