Reality Check: Why the UhuRuto phenomenon could collapse :: Kenya

The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 Chapter 9 on the executive has very clear provisions on the appointment, election, taking office, authority, functions, powers and the remuneration of the president, vice-president and secretaries of the Cabinet. The president is the chief of state and head of the de jure government as well as the commander-in-chief of the Kenya Defense Forces.

The relationship between the president, the vice-president and the cabinet secretaries is crystal clear. The president is the boss and the ball stops with him. Period. The president can hire and fire cabinet secretaries. There is no provision for the co-presidency or the division of presidential powers. However, the jubilee administration is anchored on sophisms and myths that border the insane. Here are the sophisms.

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First is the 2022 succession debate. The country is seized by debilitating and energy undermining debate about why William Samoei Ruto (WSR) is expected to be president in 2022. The debate is raging is similar to the change in the 1976 hullabaloo Constitution.

It took the genius of the constitutional puritanism of Charles Mugane Njonjo to bring sobriety to the country when he categorically stated that "it is a criminal offense for any person to encompbad, imagine, conceive or In addition, it is an offense to express, utter or declare such ideas, devices or intentions by publishing them in the form printed or written. "There is no provision in the supreme law that states that the vice president will take over when the president retires.This is the end of the match and a fresh start for all Kenyans.

Secondly, Kenyans were fooled that without the sweat and tears of WSR, Uhuru Kenyatta would not have and could not have been the president of Kenya. This is the biggest mistake in the history of Kenya.

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How much did Ruto contribute to Uhuru Kenyatta's election in 2013 and 2017? Let's do a forensic political audit. What building, what cow, what place, what strategy, what deliverables Ruto gave to Kenyatta? Company yes, but who paid the bills. May the verification begin.

The third is the claim that Kikuyu and Kalenjin are a formidable political force. Both communities have provided the four presidents since independence and will continue to provide more future presidents. However, their tyranny of numbers is not enough to guarantee the prosperity of all the Kenyan people. The general election of August 2017 was canceled by the Supreme Court.

The new presidential election of October 26, 2017 was boycotted by the successful petitioner Raila Odinga. It took the additional constitutional initiative known as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), commonly known as the "handshake," for the temperatures to calm down.

Exclusionism on behalf of the winner-takes-all-will never and will never guarantee peace in our country. Some form of inclusiveness must be considered and anchored for Kenya to flourish. No other means is possible.

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The fourth mistake is that Ruto owes a debt of Uhuru Kenyatta. In his book 'Things Fall Apart', Chinua Achebe, the founding father of modern African literature, captures this error very well during a morning meeting between Unoka, father of Okonkwo and his wife. neighbor Okoye.

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Okoye was preparing to win the Idemili title, the third highest in the country and a very expensive ceremony that required him to gather all his resources, including some 200 cowries that Unoka had borrowed from him. Years ago.

Unoka laughed loudly and long when he learned Okoye's mission and finally, between new explosions of joy, he said to Okoye: "Look at this wall … Look at those chalk lines .. Each group represents a debt to someone, and every blow is 100 cowries, you see, I owe 1,000 cowries to this man, but he did not come to wake me up for that. I am going to pay you, but not today, our elders say that the sun will shine on those who will rise before shining on those who kneel beneath them.I will pay my big debts, d & # 39; on board ". Mr. Vice-President, you will be paid, but not today (2022). Large debts must be paid first. And you know it.

The fifth illusion is that Ruto is a political genius. The vice president is a good consumer of political products but a very bad producer of political results.

WSR seems to forget that "those whose palms have been split for them by a benevolent spirit must not forget to be humble". There are those who think that the DP prefers watching you hurtling down the cliff and then asking later "why did he do it". The risk is that the sheep break in tumult instead of acting when they need it the most.

Mr. Chesang is a historian

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