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New directions for South Mugirango

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Published on Wednesday, 03 October 2007 02:57

The current MP for SM is a good man, for sure with great intentions and generally an eloquent speaker. However, the ironies of democracy and public office performance are such that these qualities add to little over nothing. The acrimony that has dogged his relationship with his political mentor, Simon Nyachae has cost the people of SM a lot in the last five year and still seems to be heading to no end. SM needs a clean start, a new beggining not build on Nyachae or Raila's back or tailcoats. SM must elect a new person, a young person, unsoiled by both the Nyachae-Magara myopia and the Magara-Raila futuristic utopia. SM must reject anybody who comes as a protegee or project of either Nyache or Raila, both statesmen I respect both as a Kenyan and young person; nationally and culturally.

I am in the race for the seat and therefore my comment might seem a little selfish; but let us face it. SM has no decent high school, even Magara's Nduru is more of a relic for things gone bad; SM has no strategic plan as a constituency despite Magara's uninterrupted seven year tenure; the roads are paths in a horror movie.Both Magara and Nyachae have this standard image of a SM youth: clad in a cheap shuka carring arrows and 'chindati' incapable of conceptual thought leave alone basic modernity! I grew up in SM villages, my mother still takes sugarless poridge there, her cows long dead because the local cattle dip collapsed; my younger brother sored a C+ from Bogichoncho and the Constituency education fund congratulated him not aware that there are no Universities taking C+ anymore...That is the Magara SM. That is the Nyachae-Magara packaged South Mugirango.

Yet we can not blame Nyachae for our problems. He neither voted for Magara in the first place nor did he block the SM CDF or any initiated local development plan. Our people knew it long ago: Iyanyagokwa etabogoretie getondo. my MP failed and its my duty to tell him so. Nyachae punished us for falling out with my MP: we should tell him so. So all those running to Nyache and Ford people or Raila and ODM for patronage must be told so.

What am I saying?

Raila is a great man, ODM is a good party. Nyachae is a generous man, Ford People a godd party, but of our past as Sm. SM must make a clean break from the past and chart a free unentangled future where we can and shall negotiate with everybody ready to, on our terms. We need to move on: away from Nyachae dominance and away from Magara's expedient messianic projects.

I support Raila's vision just as I appreciate what Kibaki has managed to do, however little to turn the country round. Any objective analysis of the last five years can. However, we as a constituency and a country must move on. SM must move on. We MUST chart a new way which will ensure that we remain as one people- abamaate- as the rest call us. Even if it means going to those small parties from where we can negotiate our post-election position.It is time we reapt the fruits of a free-political market economy where the small fish play the swing role- belonging to no one but always courted by everybody.

ODM is good, in fact am a member but I do not trust Magara and the Nominations exercise- history is my witness.

For the SM brothers and sisters in the diaspora and at home who magically manage to have access to internet; Aungo BwÓnderi offers the New Agenda. Please feel free to contact him anytime. Ideas for 'New, Enlightened, Proud and Developed South Mugirango' strategy are welcome.