Kalenjin politics in the 21st century is a sport of control, influence and dominance. The rich (actually the corrupt) have bought what they want and created an otherwise obedient people. We as the people have been moved from a society build out of virtues as Thomas Paine writes into a mini- Government that arises from majorly vices. It is absolute non-sense if I am allowed to condemn, for an individual person of more pride and not character to speak on behalf of the people at all podiums, crusades and conferences urging as to have a collective responsibility in voting on a partisan basis and not policies. We the people have been cornered by power brokers to believe that culture necessitates Kingpins and that a Kalenjin people needs a King. We had Koitalel in gone days, which I would assume to have been Moses of the Kalenjin people who brought as into the beautiful hills of the Great Rift Valley. Under certain greedy persons we are being duped to call on God to ask for Kingpins. Here they are dressed in Bantabtai ideology, but the inverse is closer to the truth.
Haven’t you seen them of late, they fly to your neighborhoods shuffling and dossing cash like pieces of paper when you have to toil for 7 months to just harvest corn for your children? They come to you not to ask, but to prescribe to you who to listen to, what to listen to and to make you feel that in becoming a tribal voter you’re increasing your chances of becoming a better person. My people, we are riding on thin ice, and this folks acting as leaders will plunged the community into servitude. We have gotten ourselves into the Orwellian society where our leaders engage in Newspeak and doublespeak, what they say is not what they mean nor belief in. For instance, there was a recording of an intelligent upcoming politician in Nandi County and to my surprised some folks who have been completely brainwashed condemn him as traitor yet he was putting pieces of facts together. Handouts as enslaved people and make them drunk in fake ideologies and they have become engaged in random abuses without paying attention to the veracity of the young man’s views. To add insult on the same note another Elder on a different show was using his mastery of the culture and words condemning facts just to please the self-endorse Kings.
For development to be universal in the Kalenjin community the culture of ridicule that dominates the current regime should and need to be put to rest. It is sickening to live in a society where sycophancy is branded ‘GOOD’ and sectarian politics is preached at all costs. The idea of Kingpins dictating to the people to be patient in turmoil until one of their own becomes the president is non-sense. The resources are shrinking and we are dreaming and waiting for a character in the play to be inducted into Hollywood hall of fame and all hustles and puzzles will be solved. Sorry it won’t. I believe that Dr. Ben Carson had read into the minds of our leaders when he was describing how folks intend to kill a society and breed servitude, He says that in order to destroy a society you first create a division and then encourage a culture of ridicule and that will drive away morality and then drive the economy into a debt…
That is our future in current politics
Mshamba Abroad 