Ken Lusaka: I am proud of my role in entrenching Jubilee in Western Kenya

Ken Lusaka

Sacrifice is not a popular concept in Kenya, for it is associated with opportunity loss. In this country’s culture of self-betterment and self-interest, political sacrifice rubs many the wrong way. Most politicians talk and yearn for more; not giving away. It is no wonder that most of them would want to force themselves on the electorate using every means.

It is not something to regret. No wonder in February 1985, while responding to the offer of freedom from the former Prime Minister of South Africa Pieter Willem Botha, Nelson Mandela said that he was not less “life-loving than you are. But I cannot sell my birth right, nor am I prepared to sell the birth right of the people to be free.”