While everyone is going on a bender about the elimination of Madame Passaris’ name from the nomination list of councillors, I take a back bench position on this.
I will not even waste my time trying to figure out why Uhuru Kenyatta could do such a “despicable” thing. Or why a group of councillors was living it up on the white sands of an exclusive
I mean, where is erstwhile keen judgement of Nairobians? Hello? Did we actually expect the local Government Minister to let the fair lady soil her pretty toes in the murk-filled world of county politics? Perhaps he was doing her a favour. Or maybe, just maybe, he felt that the “conflict of interests” excuse he thumped on the table would wash. I don’t know – maybe he felt that taking the mater to court would simply be a waste of valuable time and taxpayers’ money.
Some argue that Uhuru’s move was unprecedented and non-judicial. That the ECK (good God, not them again!) was to deal with the situation, rather than for the Gatundu MP to call the shots.
But this whole hullabaloo gets my mind racing; if Uhuru would have let the ECK or the courts decide whether Passaris’ inclusion in the list would have amounted to a conflict of interests, then my guess is that somewhere down the line, someone e would have still tampered with that bloody list and the good lady, who by the way has done a commendable job in lighting up the streets of Nairobi, would have found herself in the same ‘ol position she’s in now…
Surely, isn’t this the Kenyan way of shoving someone out of the way to political stardom? Far be it that a woman should become Mayor of the
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Unfortunately the prevalent political turmoil at the national level as well as the presence of a similarly lousy legal & constitutional paradigm doesn't help the likes of Passaris, ask Balala when he was mayor of Mombasa or Shakeel in Kisumu!! But that aside the other pertinent point is that Nairobians have never taken an active interest in how 'their city' is run? Yet they consistently lament on the litany of problems prevalent in the capital city that need to be adressed! isn't it time RESIDENTS OF NAIROBI got ACTIVELY INVOLVED in the governance of 'their city'! i see this as the 1st step toward solving the problem & effecting meaningful change @ city hall & the country's capital!
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