Re: : We need to support Hon Raila--How about supporting the people of Kenya?

Lameck Siage wrote:

Tegi,

Lets keep the eyes on the ball!

Kenya needs a new good peoples' constitution (Not the adultrated Wako draft).

Bomas draft was the closest we got to getting that new good peoples' constitution, and both civil society, opposition politicians, and Kenyans in general were agreed that it was the way to go.

When the sitting President and his genrals decided to shift their position on the Bomas draft, they plughed Kenya into the current messy and undesirable constitutional debate with no end in sight.

The above are facts! I am not defending anything in the first place. I have chosen to remain simple, again for you not to feel mixed up and to suggest that we should blame it on your challenges of being able to say what you meant, or to suggest that you may have been miunderstood.

When the government finally agreed to tablle a bill to address the section 47 and to open up chances of enacting a new constitution, I thought that they will actually go ahead with the idea and let the debate settle out on the floor of Bunge, but you choose to defend the decision not to table the bill simply because some opposition MPs threatened to shot it down. I don't see this holding any water. If they are so "obidient" to the opposition MPs, then why don't they as well go ahead and deal with Anglo leasing and Regera corruption cases as demanded by the opposition MPs. (Again, this must be simple enough not to mix up anybody)

Sadly, you are the one trying to defend a government that has not delivered. The government holds the streering wheel, not the opposition MPs. That is stright simple fact. Face it and don't specialize in what the opposition has not done. The contract to deliver was given to one Mwai Kibaki. If he lets the opposition derail him for whatever reason, he is still the one we will judge in the next few months. Please stop diverting attention to other people.

As MPs, we will also have a chance to review performance come the general elections, and whether in opposition or in government, Kenyans will express how they feel about these leaders through the ballot. I am sure you cannot fight this one.

Now you know who looks bad. I wish you luck defending a failed government.