The decision to allow the so caled "Majority" to determine who represents a political party in committees is one of the last nails in the coffin of the experiment with democracy. Kenya has now moved full circle since 1992 when Moi allowed multi-party democracy. We have now officially moved to a one-party dictatorship where political parties can no longer act independently of th executive.
I believe Jubilee should not have used their numbers to frustrate ODM's decision to de-whip undisciplined MPs. Jubilee is free to use the matter politically by taking it to the electorate. But it can not purport to select who can represent the opposition in committees. Since these MPs have crossed over to Jubilee, yet pretend to "represent" ODM, then we now have a One-Party Dictatorship. That is a label that Jubilee should have seriously avoided.
There are many risks associated with emasculating the opposition. Once people feel that they cannot express their opinion freely and that the stakes are lined up against them from the beginning to the end, they begin to find alternative ways of addressing the problem.
In Uganda, while Amin officially supported the decision by the UPC MPs to ban the opposition and declare Uganda a one-party state after an assassination attempt on Obote, he and his intellectual supporters, would later cite it as one of the reasons for the 1971 coup. Tyranny of numbers beware could lead to tyranny!
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