ODM and the MAU saga.

There is no doubt that the ODM house is and has been on fire for quite some time now.It will only be a matter of time before we can tell if the fire has been put out or not. Maybe after the Mombasa retreat but i doubt it will be easy.Whether it was built by a deck of cards or not is not our business here however. There have been problems in the orange house and the red flag had been raised a long time ago.The refusal of the party bigwigs to resolve differences amongst themselves has by far been the greatest source of misery for the party. That aside, when the Mau question was thrown into the array,what happened was just but an inevitability.

Discontentment and personal ambition overtook party unity and cohesion in the party's race for growth and 2012. The Mau question is just but an excuse for the MPs. What a platform it has given them! Recently,Kenyans have been treated to various acts of sheer nonsensical bravado and chest thumping,filled with shameful and lurid tribal hatred sentiments.
The rebellious MPs and Pro Raila Mps

Wikipedia affords me this definition of a politician;people who hold decision-making positions in government, and people who seek those positions, whether by means of election, coup d'état, appointment, electoral fraud, conquest, right of inheritance or other means. Our so called political leaders are out to grab power in 2012,and if this definition has anything to do with it,kenyans had better brace themselves for more show. Celebrating the tribe or community as an apect of our growth and heritage is laudable,but using our tribes and communities as tools of exclusion is an act of subotage and suicidal at the least. Our politicians have often managed to pass themselves off to us as "experts" who should be listened to by the layman;the protectors of the rights of the less privileged when all they do is confuse the same people and continually exploit their ignorance. Remember the Draft Constitution Referendum in 2005?

When a respected leader like Mr Moi seeks to know whether all rain comes from the Mau,we are a lost country. That our so called 'leaders' can not put rain and trees/forest in the same sentence and see the connection, when a class three pupil can? The fight for the Mau is not about communities and gaining political mileage. It has never been for the umpteenth time now! The sooner our politicians get this,the easier saving Mau will become. It was never about the Prime Minister doing it wrongly,because if for sure the procedure used was wrong,the intentions were genuine and the leaders had the privilege of affirming the evictions since most are cabinet Ministers who sat through meetings that approved the same. To therefore come out and cry foul shows a serious lack of leadership on their part.Saving the Mau should be what matters,not ODM(know that). An ODM split occasioned by recent events would thus not be stuff for breaking news.
It has been long coming. Some of our politicians however do not think saving Mau is vital. After all, according to them Mau is not the source of rain for the whole world.They have hijacked the issue and turned it upside down for reasons they only know.
The opportunity to get back at Raila for wrongs perceived to have been committed against certain individuals in the ODM house availed itself.There was no way this chance would slip away.So when the same leaders,out on a limb for revenge,sit around a table to declare themselves youths and tomorrow's leaders; we are left wondering which tomorrow they are referring to.That tomorrow may not even come(we pray it does), if they go on killing it by spewing a lot of tribal hogwash and hatred. When the same 'youths' have been youths since the days of 'youth for KANU' one is left wondering.They who have scandals haunting them;they(remnants) of the dreaded KANU regime,they who's wealth cannot account for are our future leaders in their late 40s,50s and even 60s? As Africans, we do not simply respect the old because they are old. Leadership is not only about age,but when those with the age and experience do not know any better,the onus is with us to let them know. While serving our communities needs is vital,turning around and misusing the same community for political mileage is plain selfish.But again our politicians are selfish.