LESS DEBATES MORE OF ACTION, GO OUT N VOTE

Nairobi, January 22, 2013

 

Over the past few days debates have been raging on concerning the battle for the Nairobi gubernatorial seat whether the immediate former Embakasi legislator Ferdinand Waititu is fit to manage the affairs of Kenya’s capital, the East and Central Africa Economic hub compared to one Dr.Evans Kidero, the former managing director of Mumias Sugar. One thing has emerged from this that whereas Waititu represents the low income earners most of them in the informal settlements, Kidero on the other hand represents the high and middle class, the bourgeois.

The later have been engaging in discussions in the boardrooms, offices and social media whether really Waititu can manage the city considering his perceived rather low levels of education or professionalism and the kind of antics he has been displaying in the past while apparently fighting for the rights of the poor, those who’ve come face to face with injustices. A section of this bourgeois class are worried that he will extend the same kind of gymnastics even when he becomes the governor of Nairobi so they are up in arms, using all kind of terms to refer to Waititu all in the name of discrediting him as the preferred candidate to manage Nairobi.

One thing this class of people fails to grasp is that wasting a lot of time in debates trying to discredit him will not change anything besides voting. Most of these people don’t participate in the voter exercise, all they do is  pretend they’re busy on their computer screens whereas thousands and thousands of the so called low class earners, are out there flocking polling stations and casting their ballots in favor of the person they feel can’t stand by their side wherever whenever.

Anyhow, the point I am trying to drive home is that change cannot be brought about by postings on facebook walls or twitter or chatting and debating with our workmates every morning in the office per se, it can only be realized if all this is mixed with action, walking into polling stations on 4^th March and deciding our future by voting in the right leaders. So let all and sundry go out and vote.