Defect to Jubilee early to avoid disappointment
What you need to know:
- Less than fortnight from now, the Jubilee Party will be opening its doors to those who have spent their lives in the political cold to finally come under the blanket of government.
- Veterans of political defeat, practised in the art of losing elections, love to nurture their grand delusions to capture power into platitudes about the might of the county governments.
- People in opposition zones still expect the development without extending political support to the government.
Everyone, individual and community alike, who desires development needs to be in good books with the government. Less than fortnight from now, the Jubilee Party will be opening its doors to those who have spent their lives in the political cold to finally come under the blanket of government.
A nation that is politically fragmented into numerous political parties is impossible to develop because of the confusion arising from needless excessive dissent.
Communities and individuals who are unable to see into the future could waste their votes on perennial losers who will never get into government, becoming unwitting recruits in the army of the poor and underdeveloped practising the politics of protest and raucous disagreement as the rest of society marches forward.
Veterans of political defeat, practised in the art of losing elections, love to nurture their grand delusions to capture power into platitudes about the might of the county governments.
The truth is a bitter pill to swallow: Counties only have crumbs to build nursery schools, gravel muddy village paths, tamp down pornography, distribute fertiliser and bad seed, oversee artificial insemination of livestock and license dogs while taxing vegetable vendors at the market and imposing chicken tax.
Nothing can be more unfortunate for a leader than to be elected on an opposition party ticket, and nothing more inauspicious than to be the community of opposition, the election of governors and county assemblies the loser’s spoils of competition.
Economic policy and planning is still a responsibility of the national government. It is in Nairobi, at the heart of the nations, where the fat of the land is hidden. If you are not in good books with the government in Nairobi, you could be abandoned to the ravages of aliens, the perils of international waters without the protection of foreign policy.
GOOD QUALITY LIFE
Outside government, your experience of the fruits of Vision 2030, Kenya’s blueprint for development into a middle-income economy with a good quality of life, will likely remain on paper and television.
Experience has shown that issuing the benchmark sovereign bond benefited Kenya but unfortunately, those outside government could not even sniff the billion dollars, hence their incessant complaints that the money had been stolen.
Opposing the government repels development and magnetises suffering. When the Standard Gauge Railway is being drawn, the sulphurous odour of their dissenting politics could repel it away from your home it avoid them like a snake.
Counties that do not toe the line will soon be whimpering inconsolably in the opposition wilderness, afflicted by inordinate delays in the disbursement of money and cut off from development.
Unless Nairobi residents, for example, show their allegiance to the government of the day through their votes for the governor, the metropolitan regional bus transit system, and the development of light rail for its suburbs will remain on paper, another stillborn Vision 2030 flagship project.
Vision 2030 has many flagship projects, among them the installation of solar electricity generators in 74 public institutions; the construction of 560 new secondary schools; and development of scores of dams. None of these strides in development can be carried out without support for the party in power.
People should not complain when the children of known opposition sympathisers are forced to use slates when laptops are delivered to primary schools.
People in opposition zones still expect the development without extending political support to the government. No one should expect something for nothing. Those in the political cold should be careful not to behave like the five foolish virgins in the Bible who did not have oil when the bridegroom came.
They should hasten to join the party of the future if they want roads, hospitals, electricity and other good things that come from the government.