Just Totally Random

There are things so random you can’t plan them, not my title though. It was in the kitchen waiting on its ingredients.

We are taking a different direction today. I will be talking about leadership, governance and politics.

In my brain, I’m already warning myself, “This is not an English lesson”, I hope I follow through.

Being in and from Kenya, in this day and year, 2025, living in what will be recorded history in the time to come, I have a few things to say.

There have been discussions and floating rumors, “Politicians are not leaders.” I thought that was the saddest thing ever said.

Most countries are governed by democracy, with Kenya being no different. The state of the nation should be one of unity. Discrimination should be the furthest thing from our minds. With these sentiments, we give the “politicians” the greenlight to be shitty.

We need our politicians to be leaders. During the electoral campaigns, they should have a platform for politics. It is a competition which, from what we’ve seen, has no rules nor ethics.

We should purpose to be citizens who are accountable and demand accountability from all around us. During the election period, we should elect politicians who will be leaders, who we can be proud to have as role models for our young. These people are all over the media and can’t be kept away from our children, from time immemorial, it has been proven that apprenticeship is the best mode of learning.

If we want to have morally correct and upstanding children, we must show them how to be that way. If you think your house your rules will be enough, then, you have another think coming. Behaviour is very easy to copy. If you stay around a certain kind of people, then, little by little their influence will get to you.

The generation we have been having in our top government positions is beyond its time. They are set in their ways and from experience have nothing to add. Old dogs can’t be taught new tricks. It’s time to retire them, force must be used if necessary, but change must be implemented. If there is a mix of generations in office, then we all know which behaviour will be passed on.

What has made this random, is that I have not written in this topic before. Anywho, being accountable enables us to hold others to account. We should elect leaders smart enough to understand that once in office, they set politics aside and do their work.

At this time, Kenyan governance is shaky. We have politicians in office who are educated but have learned nothing. They’ve been in politics so long, they have forgotten what job they are supposed to be doing. Flaunting their PhDs, not understanding that their education has not taught them to be leaders.

I’ll start a new line soon on politics game theory. There’s much to be said.