Political insobriety in Kenya

The world is full of paradox. One man’s meat is another man’s poison. Life is full of perplexing situation. Within a twinkle of an eye you can come from being a blue-eyed boy of the establishment to become an anathema in the same establishment. This is all in the name of politics. Politics we are told is a dirty game, yet it permeates every sphere of our lives.  Politics, according to Wikipedia comes from the Greek word, (pronounced as politikos), meaning "of, for, or relating to citizens". It is the “process of making uniform decisions applying to all members of a group. It also involves the use of power by one person to affect the behavior of another person. More narrowly, it refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance— organized control over a human community, particularly a state.  Furthermore, politics is the study or practice of the distribution of power and resources within a given community (a usually hierarchically organized population) as well as the interrelationship(s) between communities”.

Uniform here means swimming in the same direction. It is identical, unvarying and constant thought, actions, decisions and movement. In some places it is collective responsibility as agreed in a group or team. This kind of decision-making process is again controlled by the use of power owned by one person to influence and affect the behavior of other people. This brings me to the question: who has the sole untamed power to speak on behalf of the majority?