Politics of Excess

In Kibaki's government, we now see what the 'husbandry of power' means in the post colony. Political power must necessarily provide access to wealth however obscene this might be. By any standards, Kibaki is a rich man. Why he finds it so difficult to reject the recent pay increase is a matter that remains confounding. To claim that this man is good and that it is the cabal surrounding him that is the problem is to avoid the issue. He, like the hundreds of MPs with whom he wines and dines and pretends to call wapumbavu are all guilty of wanton excess. Kenyan politics has now been transformed into a game of the rich. There's no denying that a credible opposition must emerge from an alternative source. What this will be I am not sure. But it sure won't come from the next parliament.