What an Uhuru-Ruto presidency means to Kenyans

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What an Uhuru-Ruto presidency means to Kenyans

The proverbial two horse race in Kenyan politics has now taken shape and no one can deny that the battle lines have been drawn between Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka on one side and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyata and Eldoret North MP William Ruto on the other.

Yours truly looks into what an Uhuruto president will bring to Kenyans now that they remain the only competition for Raila Amollo Odinga and company, and constitute one of the two horses in the race to assume the tenancy of the vacant house on the hill.

Uhuruto and The Hague

Uhuru and Ruto have become synonymous with the International Criminal Court, thanks to their case; a mention of their name stirs memories of the post election violence.

Truth be told, no one will like a situation where his or her president, and his deputy, leave office from time to time to attend to hearings at the ICC, if at all they hearken to the call.

Two scenarios

There will be two most likely scenarios come March 5 or 6. Scenario one will be, Uhuru and Ruto are finally elected to state house and the duo, in their characteristic aura of impunity dismiss the ICC as a white man’s court as they have done time and again and defy orders to attend court, making Kenya to be declared a pariah state by the international community and most importantly, donor countries.

Uhuru and Ruto are facing the worst ever charges in the world, crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague

This is the biggest hurdle to their quest for presidency and just in case they make it, it is certain they will not honor their pledges to appear for hearing. Kenya will be a failed state if it has not achieved that already.

Here is why.

Poor Country

Kenya is a poor country which depends on donors to pay the most basic of her bills. From the unbelievably high MPs salaries to those of striking nurses and teachers, to paying ghost workers and imposters in the police force, we literally beg to even feed our population.

Such donors like the US and the UK, Norway, Germany, Japan, France, and Canada have already expressed their dislike for the impunity that is rife in Kenya and have vowed to withdraw their aid and slap Kenya with sanctions.

Secondly, Uhuru and Ruto will be banned from travelling to all those countries where they could sell Kenya’s agenda and though the incumbent Mwai Kibaki had moved east, the bulk of our aid comes from the US and the UK.

Greedy hyenas

Thirdly, rebel groups, extortionists and secessionists groups will come out in broad daylight in a bold move and take advantage of the failed state and wreak havoc in a country that has struggled to secure its people even when peace is abundant. Look at the Tana Delta and Baragoi, look at Garrisa and Eastleigh where explosive devices are hurled at will to hapless Kenyans when we have a functioning government.

Chinkororo, Mombasa Republican Council, the Mungiki, Bagdad boys and a myriad of other unlawful groupings will rear their ugly heads, slumping the country to unprecedented levels of anarchy, Democratic Republic of Congo style.

Arson, terror, assassination, murder, and theft will be the order of the day.

Joblessness.

Most youth, 75 per cent of them are largely unemployed. These are bad statistics for a sanctioned state whose leaders seeking political office have done nothing to address the situation.

The youth who make up more than 70 per cent of the adult population will surely rise against this.

While a laborer in the United States earns $8 (KSHS 868) per hour, a Kenyan equivalent earns Kshs 300 per day. In other democracies these youths will be classified as jobless because the amount cannot feed them leave alone sustain them, thus rendering them hand to mouth laborers.

A rebellion is likely to happen as these youths protest against being used while their leaders continue to steal millions.

Nurses, doctors, teachers, hoteliers, masons, drivers, pilots and people from each and every trade and profession will down their tools leading to the mother and father of all rebellions, and ultimately, a civil coup that will bundle the ineffective leaders out of office.

Impunity

Who will obey the constitution when the top leaders break laws at will and run away with it? Free press will be gagged; political assassinations will be order if the day, opposing forces will be killed for game and Kenya, following in DRC’s footsteps when all communities will rise against each other citing generational injustices over national resources, land, etc

Scenario two

Kenyans will use their heads not their hearts this time round and vote in worthy leaders and avoid all the above, for a peaceful, visionary and productive Kenya that will unite its citizen to steer the country into the next level.

At this point, I borrow a quote from squealer, a character in the book, “Animal farm” who always used this phrase to convince animals showing signs of opposition towards the rule and justification of the pigs, and I quote thus, “Or do you want man to come back and rule us?”

Obviously no one wanted man to reclaim his farm and the answer was a No.

Squealer could always win after posing the question.

And I ask, do we want a failed state?

We do not want a failed state, do we?