Why politicians accused of graft have lucrative political careers

We Kenyans are a resilient lot, but I am not sure it is worthwhile showing this kind of resilience year in, year out if in the long run we expect nothing remarkable in return for our effort. It is the unique capacity to grow, cultivate and support a political class that is given, almost without exception to turn against our best interests. Nevertheless, we fervently protect it and could do it again many times over.

We are easily the most permissive society in the world when it comes to acquiescing to the political class. Just like everybody else, we gripe about the short end of the stick that they deal us. But that is about as far as our token dissent goes. By the strangest twist of fate, this point quasi consciousness marks where our politics gets the better of us (or rather we enable it get the better of us).