It’s time to negotiate peaceful transition to spur real growth

We have just started a new year but all the talk is of 2022. Kenyans are already wearied and burdened with an election that is two and a half years away. No wonder newspaper sales are plummeting and the evening news is no longer essential viewing. One must honestly ask, ‘Is this it? Are we going to be continuously subjected to this nonsense and politicking for the next thirty two months? Will the country grind to a halt because of our addiction to politics and bad leadership?’

You get the sense that we are trapped with a bitter cocktail of apathy, dirty loans, tribal arrangements, authoritarian rule and endemic graft. There seems no way out. It is quite depressing. Despite all the imagined democratic progress and a Constitution that is the envy of the world, we are informed that a referendum is inevitable and that it will take place in July, tupende tusipende (whether we like it or not). The same spokesmen of the handshake team have also announced that BBI people are beginning another round of collecting views. It appears they are to repeat their homework until such time as they get the answers that their masters desire.