King in waiting

King in waiting

Since the post election violence, I have always believed in my heart that the appearance and trial of the post election suspects at The Hague would be the best thing that will ever happen to Kenya’s justice system, a belief I’ve savoured to this date. However, on the two days that those Kenyans appeared at the ICC court, I felt shameful that we had finally been forced to wash our dirty linen in public.  I felt like we’d allowed our citizens to be humiliated before the whole world. Excuse me!!! ICC is not for Kenya; it’s a court for warlords and guerrilla fighters from countries that went bananas years ago. We are a good to do country that is able to run its own affairs without external interference. But the cacophony and attention The Hague episode received from Kenyans quite became of interest to me. And my conclusion; Kenyans are eager to identify their King in waiting.

When they landed home, the mammoth crowds that followed Uhuru and Ruto’s procession from airport to another obscene crowd at Uhuru Park just displayed how Kenyans are eager to anoint the King in waiting. What’s sad though is that Kenyans seem keen on shopping for a king from a wrong market place. If it’s not wrong market, then the PEV suspects cannot double up as kings-in-waiting- suspects and  If we keep shopping from wrong market place, then we may soon go Haitian way of picking a dancehall entertainer for president.

I also love to do some prophecies in this game of politics and though most of us hide our cards under the table, truth is that we love to play the same cards by keeping the same politicians in office term in term out.  Maybe it’s safer? Maybe that’s not the case but forgive me for thinking it’s political slavery where we sing for and shuffle around the same political kingpins year in year out. And that’s why Kibaki has been in the scene since independence. That’s why Uhuru and Raila are playing their dads’ roles and posing as the two most likely tenants of statehouse in  the hereafter political dispensation after Kibaki regime.

Come let’s play the cards a little bit. Think of Raila. Love him or hate him, he is one person who’s given shape to Kenyan politics as we know it today. He liberated Kenya from suppression and gave us political space unheard of some years back. And now we need to reward him with the presidency but wait; I think he’s failed to address real issues like IDPs with gusto and enthusiasm we knew him for. Think power has corrupted him, kiasi maybe.  Kalonzo has little to show for his many years in leadership but Kibaki’s kind of luck may probably give him presidency but you can’t bank on luck. I’ve no idea of why and how but Uhuru and Ruto seem to be commanding huge following of late and seem serious factors in the next polls. Karua and Kenneth are some guys we should be thinking about but we choose to ignore them coz our tribes need people who can ‘fight’ for us or why do Ruto and Uhuru command such a following?  We believe they fought for us whether guilty as charged or not.

Someone help me call some strange cards to the table. We need someone strong and determined enough to jump this queue of Kings in waiting by pulling an Obama version on Kenya. Where are you friend, Prof. Ole Kiyiapi, I heard that you are running for Presidency and waited for you to declare so I could campaign for you be it in my facebook wall. I am still waiting you to declare.

What then sayest we? When Christ is revealed, we shall reign with him coz if we believe in God, we are all Kings in waiting. And when they thought that a King could only come from the tribe of Judah, Saul, from the Benjamin, the least tribe in Israel became King (1 Samuel 9:21). Don’t you think it was time Minorities ruled? Only then shall we have matured as a democracy or what do you think?