Kenyan Pundit

I rarely comment on Kenyan politics anymore, because the shenanigans keep reaching new heights of “you-gotta-be shitting-me!”

Once in a while, I’m drawn out of a my self-imposed ban by instances of “you-gotta-be-totally-fucking-shitting-me!”

Today’s violent dispersion of the ODM march is one of them.

I have little regard for the ODM. Maybe if we knew what they stood for beyond political power (not that there’s anything wrong with a quest for political power, after all why run for office…but you need at least some substance behind that quest for power) I could pay attention to them, but to me they generally represent a different face of the same rot that we have in government.

Now NARC Kenya et. al (the government), is obviously worried about the challenge posed by ODM in next years elections, but rather than trying to give Kenyans a reason to be skeptical about ODM and making the movement a paper tiger, the government seems to be hell bent on making ODM even more popular than they deserve to be. Who the hell does political strategy for these guys? If ODM was left alone, chances are they’d self-destruct in the process of trying to figure out who would run for President and trying to appease the various constituencies within the movement.

But then again, why am I surprised? When folks like Ruto, Biwott, Jirongo, Mudavadi, etc. are all being spoken off as presidential candidates, we once again are proving that the impossible is possible in Kenyan politics (or as Bush might say…fool me once, fool me always…)

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