County election boards is one option but also we should seriously consider the parliamentary system so that we can completely eliminate the presidency. I think the presidency is a big part of the tribalism, corruption and impunity in this country because of the way it was abused by Kenyatta and Moi. We need a fresh start with a new concept of government and a new name for the CEO of our country just to do away with that terrible legacy that Kenyattaa and Moi created.
Kenya is a Mafia society that can not be reformed.
The only way to reform it is to turn over election to county boards. An innocent Msando was killed because of elections.
She could testify via video link. Or risk it and come in person.
Agreed. Was thinking the same. It's the symbolism of it all.
I don't know why we emulate everything from the west and take zero inspiration from our own culture which was very collegial and anti central leadership. I read that the Kikuyu for example, had uthamaki installed for sometime in the 18th century but only for a short while because soon thereafter the elders determined it was bad for the people: the muthamaki tended to act for his own interests and not the people's interests as had been the norm of leadership in the community, so they demolished it and ensured collegial leadership at all levels. The top chief, part of the topmost collegial structure was more of a symbol than anything.
Why do we even have a "president" or a "prime minister" in our part of the world? Why isn't he the "chief" or "Laibon" or the "Orkoiyot" Why have an adversarial parliamentary system and not the Njuri ncheke? We despise them because they are ours.
I believe these are the things that brought war to Africa in my opinion. These western systems do not go with our culture. Yes, Kenyatta took advantage of the African collegial spirit of the nationalists of the early years but it was only because he tasted and then was tempted by the power of these Western central systems. He then became obsessed with keeping it from those who expected him to continue in the team spirit and unity of before. But he was like them until the presidency seduced him.
We are always talking about the ills of colonialism and the first and second president but I think our leaders made the blunder of crafting systems that took no account of African values of leadership at all. We borrowed nothing from our own history. We just continued with the same contemptuous attitude to everything African that we inherited from the colonists who demolished those systems in the first place. We are essentially an English experiment. We could have borrowed some and still retained something fundamentally African.
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