Tribocracy:Democracy made in Kenya

By Kamal Ogudah
Via http://tomorrowspaper.wordpress.com/
Kenyans as individuals we believe our political system is a democratic one but if we look deep into our hearts it is never so, our politics is just but tribal alliances looking for supremacy over others and in the process forging alliances with other tribes for this cause in the end hurting development and having a divided nation, the tribes at the forefront of this new democracy are the ethnic groups that occupy the largest proportion of the pie chart that is Kenya, that is the Kikuyu, Luhya, Kalenjin, Luo and Kamba.
When ODM was formed chief among its manifestos was devolution many knew it for that among other things it stood for but look at it now a shadow of its former self and viewed as Raila’s party same as PNU which was an alliance that was made to help Kibaki back to power before the disputed general elections it was based upon what the president had achieved on his first term which ODM tried to counter accusing PNU of discrimination in public spending, nepotism and tribalism in public appointments which was true to some degree but some people viewed PNU as a party that was forwarding a Kikuyu agenda, looking at that time it was politics based on Kikuyu’s against other tribes this led to our country experiencing a major fallout when PNU stood tall despite a lot of alleged irregularities that finally precipitated into the PEV.
Our political parties are nothing but tribal supremacy vehicles non is based on ideals of any sort but on a certain leader or a click of them, right now we have the G7 alliance who after getting to hear what they stand for to be warranted to lead this country all I have heard is some whispers about it bringing youthfulness into our leadership and the youth that I know are not 40 plus years but we in college and the under 35 but the main thing I get from them is their differences with Raila I don’t really care if they like Raila or not that is their problem, what I really care about is when will the ‘northern frontier’ be made to feel like other parts of Kenya, after graduation what will they do for me and my comrades in terms of jobs and opportunities , water and housing in our informal settlements what will they do about it in short they need to start politicking with a manifesto or ideology in their heads not hate for Raila, Karua ,Kenneth or any other person harbouring a presidential ambition for that matter.
Tribocracy is what we enjoy right now from the mainstream politics to college politics, one influences the other and the other lives to the future cause that’s our future leadership it would be fit if University politics was like that of the 80’s and 90’s based on ideologies among other factors than what is happening now that which is based on tribal alliance, until then let’s live through this moment hoping Tribocracy won’t live forever though I have a feeling it will especially if the tribes with a considerable proportion in the pie chart that is KENYA will continue with the supremacy war of wanting to dominate, guilty being the five major tribes (you know yourselves)