Don't listen to Pastor vooke. I do "visit" your world via Kenyan and US friends and fora like Nipate. I have empathy. What NASA is doing is not new - Jaramogi, Matiba, et al staged a vibrant resistance that brought in multi-partyism. Change is constant and any new reforms would never be final. I just feel there has been too much "achievement" of the political and the tribal whereas there is no clamor nor focus on a development mission.
I believe that discipline and focus works best in achieving goals. In the corporation all are focused like a laser on the target. In liberal democracy you have half the force pulling in a divergent direction. Inefficient. I am frustrated by democracy in poorly educated Sub Sahara Africa. Even the slightly better educated Arab does not bother with the charade that people nurtured in ethnic communes can make national choices on a merit basis.
I believe as soon as the present clamorers of change gained power they would instantly discard the pretence and become the status quo. We saw it before - the Kiraitus who fought Moi and stuffed themselves to the brim with Triton. Hail Otieno Kajwang' - jeez all those passports and work permits sold to Somali "expats" (refugees) and wahindi without any reference to process! It's all about power. Why is it that people can demand positions and not a national economic vision? Ever heard of the Vision 2030 or seen anyone in the opposition bother with it?
So I would support the devolved parliamentary system to end the bickering. This is empathy, not because the parliamentary system delivers better development. If some people will be less quarrelsome when their man is in charge of taxes - and they can get services, contracts, etc without discrimination - this is only fair and puts to rest the lie called reforms.
In its absence I will pick the firmest hand to deliver the national vision in spite of the chatter, bickering and noisemaking. This is realism.
We live in different worlds my friend. To those of us in opposition, the skipped October elections was a big achievement. It changed things. No business as usual until things change. You will only be able to understand that when you realize that there will be no presidential elections as usual until the electoral system is reformed. We will not registered to vote, we will not have a presidential candidate, we will not participate in presidential campaign and last but not least we will not vote until changes are made to the electoral system. Naisitoshe, we will perfect the art of swearing in the peoples president now that we have had a practice. I wish you could once in a while come and visit us in our world and see how determined, committed and undeterred we are. What we are doing is very exiting because its new, purposeful and futuristic. It is sad to listen to those of you left behind in the old world still thinking its business as usual.