Last
weekend, Kenya won the first Main Cup in the Rugby Sevens’ series and our
politicians won the Most Ignorant Cup for not knowing what we won.
Forgive
them.
Here’s
what they know most:
Their Political Gods
Ask
them the name of their political supremos and they will give you not one, two
or three names but maybe ten including their primary, secondary, university and
Bunge nicknames. They will even be
generous to tell you their sons’, daughters’ and wives’ nicknames too.
They
will go ahead to tell you what their political gods take for breakfast, lunch
and dinner. What size of shoe they wear and what suit they prefer.
Weekend Funerals
How
will they not know where they will be over the weekend?
Try
to look for any politician on Saturday or Sunday and you will probably find
them attending some funeral back in the village.
On
weekdays they are busy checking and asking around for some funeral to attend.
They
are not the most condoling but these present them a perfect opportunity to hit
at the rivals, chest-thump and drop crocodile tears on the graves.
Countdown to 2017 General Election
Other
sport lovers may have forgotten that there are coming national elections next year
but our politicians, the wannabe sports lovers, know not only the date, but
also the hours, minutes and seconds remaining to the polls.
If
you want to confirm this, trying shifting that date and hell will break loose.
IEBC
Just
as they know when the elections would be held, they know, in and out, who will
be conducting the elections.
Some
know IEBC as a bosom friend while others know it as a sworn enemy.
Still,
others know each and every name of the commissioners, others don’t want to hear
anything about them.
CDF
How
will they not know this?
This
is the spinal cord of each of our MPs. They know the amount allocated them each
and every year.
The
High Court touched it last year and labelled it ‘unconstitutional’ and hell broke
loose. The Judiciary was denied funds like never before in the following budget.
They
have since forcefully mutated the funds to align it with the Constitution.
Hate speech
Not
its meaning but how to spew it in public rallies, funerals and public barazas.
They
know how to manoeuvre around the law as they call each other names, abuse rival
communities and lampoon opponents.
The Media
They
know each and every media house which is sympathetic, against and friendly to them.