Here’s What Will Happen to Anyone Who Tries to Heckle at the Opening of Siaya Stadium

A gem of wisdom I gleaned from somewhere today says that when a young man goes hunting for an elephant fear should not appear in his lexicon. The logic is that when he kills the elephant his poverty ends and when the elephant kills him his poverty still ends.

Such fatalism is symbolic of Siaya politics. Sworn enemies today will tomorrow hug and swear before the electorate, and Almighty God, how they’ve always been besotted of each other. Worse still, the words of a Siaya politician are only of good currency inasmuch as they serve his or her personal interest.

That is why I urge caution on the masses crystallizing around the emergent camp that has broken off from the patronage of Governor James Orengo.

I urge caution because on Monday a shameful scenario ensued outside the yet-to-be-commissioned Siaya Stadium when a rebel faction held some kind of rally just outside the stadium while the Principal Secretary Interior, Raymond Omollo, was being chaperoned around the stadium by his host Governor Orengo.

The rebel faction could be excused for not having prior knowledge of the Governor’s itinerary, but that’s as far as condoning such untoward behaviour goes.

A  clique of senior Siaya politicians who were lately denied certain lucrative tenders are now coalescing around a Cabinet Secretary who has always nursed  ambitions of becoming Siaya Governor. While making or breaking political friendships has never constituted a felony its sad that this group has vowed that their principal agenda is to undermine the current Governor’s administration. They are doing this in the hope that come 2027 they will have something concrete to sell to the electorate about Orengo’s purported failures.

They forget that Siriwo Rice Mill, Madiany Ginnery, many  feeder roads, modern markets, maternity wings in hospitals and high-mast lighting are legacies of Orengo administration which no amount of propaganda can erase. They forget too that less than fifteen months ago the boy who has gone out hunting an elephant now, was willing to swear that no Governor walked on planet earth more brilliant than James Aggrey Bob Orengo. And maybe he was right.

But now interests have shifted and before 2027 they’ll have shifted again and again.

Politicians have nothing to lose and symbolically the boy going out to hunt the elephant could have a pension to fall back on or even auction their support base to a younger politician. Either way; they get the elephant or the elephant gets them, they have nothing to lose.

The people who will lose are the youth lined up to heckle a certain leader, if what I hear is true, during the stadium inauguration. Such behaviour at a presidential function which will be covered by the international media leaves us open to ridicule, not as individuals but as a society.

With two Heads of State in attendance I don’t want to imagine what the security will look like but I hate to think of what could happen to someone who pretends to be unruly because of a handout from a politician.

When did the people of Siaya loose their decency, hospitality and patriotism to be enrolled in heckling our own leaders by a few political hot heads?

While I wish you all seasons greetings I wonder if any amount of handout from a politician is sufficient for us to auction our dignity in front of the world.

 

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