Youth, awake and challenge our two timing political old guard

President William Ruto and Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga at State House in Mombasa county. With them is National Assembly Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah. They reflected on Kenya’s just-ended bid for the African Union Commission chairperson position.[PCS]

Nothing aptly describes Kenya’s political old guard, now straddling the divide between government and the opposition, than the phrase, ‘a bunch of bananas’. Regardless of the circumstances, they bunch up, start green, end up yellow and are crooked.

These individuals have systematically emasculated this country in the last four decades and are now regrouping, angling to bunch up by shouting themselves hoarse over what needs to be done to put the country back on track. 

Longevity in politics notwithstanding, their actions mark them as greenhorns, unable to grasp the basics of effective leadership. They are vampires and leeches that continue to suck the blood out of gullible citizens through the proboscis of carefully prepared, packaged and delivered half truths.