Trappings of Succession Politics
The Trappings of Succession
The headlines, the bulletins and front pages of the media outlets describe a worrying trend in Kenya’s political display. The basis for ally or foe in the political context is ideologies, values and the influence of visions. Kenya’s rhetoric is far from that. The thumbscrew has been the craving, anxiety and plans of succession. Development has both economic and political timings. The performance of an economy could be understood and interpreted with ease, but political processes that favour development have an ingenious way of avoiding clarity.
The contemporary trends have explicit and implicit mergers, both at the national and county level. Parties have cropped up, with plans to gather bargaining power and some have disintegrated as ploys to amass political power play out. Machiavelli, a political scholar described the balance between the nobility and the people in a constitutional principality. Mobilization and demobilization of both sides is based on the seeking of protection of the latter and the prosperity with comfort of the former. Succession in political parties and coalition take overs have trapped Kenyans quest to negotiate a formidable social contract. The bulge that has accumulated choices with the establishment has ripped the same of the proletariat.
The naïve mwananchi however, has developed a tendency to “analyse” and “predict” with “certainty” the moves of the ruling class. The scores of the 2022 voting call are already set and this has shifted the argumentation for or against development and flagship projects from the sustainability object to the odds of success on political scores. The opposing crew is battling the crisis of kingship in a party whose leader has had many unsuccessful rounds. The role of an opposition is transformative if it pronounces viable alternatives. The governing crew has projected sentiments of individuals who are in line to the throne whose rallying call for support is now louder than Vision 2030.
The media sets the playground. The information they disseminate are sponsored and censured to fit into the factory settings of the masters. Overtime, misconceptions, misperceptions and misunderstanding have the foundation. We need to hold into account county executives who spend on misplaced priorities, devoid of party affiliations and the agenda is set. National assembly members who jointly increase their salaries and county assembly members who are on a travel craze. This can never succeed without a transparent media, which is not thrown into excitement by who takes after who.
The Kenyan 2030 agenda, East African Community vision, The African Union Agenda 2063 and the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations are not achievable with the trappings of succession of regimes but rather the need to underscore the prosperity of successive generations.
Oltetia Pere
Student of Diplomacy
The headlines, the bulletins and front pages of the media outlets describe a worrying trend in Kenya’s political display. The basis for ally or foe in the political context is ideologies, values and the influence of visions. Kenya’s rhetoric is far from that. The thumbscrew has been the craving, anxiety and plans of succession. Development has both economic and political timings. The performance of an economy could be understood and interpreted with ease, but political processes that favour development have an ingenious way of avoiding clarity.
The contemporary trends have explicit and implicit mergers, both at the national and county level. Parties have cropped up, with plans to gather bargaining power and some have disintegrated as ploys to amass political power play out. Machiavelli, a political scholar described the balance between the nobility and the people in a constitutional principality. Mobilization and demobilization of both sides is based on the seeking of protection of the latter and the prosperity with comfort of the former. Succession in political parties and coalition take overs have trapped Kenyans quest to negotiate a formidable social contract. The bulge that has accumulated choices with the establishment has ripped the same of the proletariat.
The naïve mwananchi however, has developed a tendency to “analyse” and “predict” with “certainty” the moves of the ruling class. The scores of the 2022 voting call are already set and this has shifted the argumentation for or against development and flagship projects from the sustainability object to the odds of success on political scores. The opposing crew is battling the crisis of kingship in a party whose leader has had many unsuccessful rounds. The role of an opposition is transformative if it pronounces viable alternatives. The governing crew has projected sentiments of individuals who are in line to the throne whose rallying call for support is now louder than Vision 2030.
The media sets the playground. The information they disseminate are sponsored and censured to fit into the factory settings of the masters. Overtime, misconceptions, misperceptions and misunderstanding have the foundation. We need to hold into account county executives who spend on misplaced priorities, devoid of party affiliations and the agenda is set. National assembly members who jointly increase their salaries and county assembly members who are on a travel craze. This can never succeed without a transparent media, which is not thrown into excitement by who takes after who.
The Kenyan 2030 agenda, East African Community vision, The African Union Agenda 2063 and the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations are not achievable with the trappings of succession of regimes but rather the need to underscore the prosperity of successive generations.
Oltetia Pere
Student of Diplomacy
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