TRIVIALISING HIS BEDAZZLING'S TRIUMPH

Well, you heard it from me. Raila Odinga, Prime Minister designate, in Republic of Kenya, is soaking in his new found power and dazzling display of the same to boot.

Watch the new PM ride out in style.

No problem with Raila following the general protocols of getting police outriders, a convoy and state security, that befits his position.This brings me to a more important point. Why do our leaders and civil servants drive in $100,000 limousines? What have they achieved to earn this priviledge? did they put a Kenyan on the moon?only moral vacuity can explain this display of arrogance and self imbibed culture of importance.

Our society has allowed our leaders to be rulers and the people(the seat of power) to be servants. When our so called cabal of thieves do not even know how to cover their rapacity and graft in any finery, how can they expect that the holoi- polloi will not covet them?. What will prevent politics to be hijacked as yet onother quick way to be a zillionaire? democracy loses in this process and we risk being a society that feeds into a non existent importance of political leaders.

Raila truly earned his new found power position. Heck, let me explain it, in sarcastic way from R's(Raila)own response to a question on Senator Obama, who is from the Luo ethnic community, and hails from same region as Raila. The joke in Kenya after the flawed 2007 elections has followed on Obama's own successses in US, and it is said that a 'Luo' will be President of the United States before being president of Kenya.

Raila Odinga's answer to this fallacy? “We beat them to it,” Mr. Odinga said, “I just wasn’t sworn in.”

True, i believe like majority of Kenyans, that Raila won the 2007 elections. Lets' put that behind us and start helping those who died, or were maimed for the travesty of having politicians ride around in limousines.