Push to recycle presidents is an insult to Kenyan citizens

There is a wind of political foolishness sweeping through the Kenyan air. This pervasive lack of good judgment is surging down the streets of Nairobi into City Hall, heading down towards Parliament, and slowly blowing towards other areas of government. Recently, a ludicrous political joke emerged and is beginning to take root in the mind of bureaucrats and the Kenyan public: the proposal to ‘recycle’ president Uhuru Kenyatta as Prime Minister in the next elections. This has got to be the worst idea since the Kiambu Mafia’, ‘Change the Constitution Movement’ in the 1970s.

For the sake of this country, I hope that this is just idle opinion mongering. However, Francis Atwoli, the everlasting head of Cotu, trumpeted the same idea a few weeks ago. Which means that not only is this thought being entertained in some powerful quarters: they have dreamed, schemed and plotted on its execution. Those thinking in this direction should perish the thought, and for at least three reasons.