After much haggling back and forth, the friend and the enemy have now made peace. The result? The losing winner gets to keep the President's office and the winning loser gets to be appointed Prime Minister. Welcome to the new Kenya.
The winning loser says that this new structure, and the obese cabinet is necessary to safeguard the country's interests. I beg to disagree. This new structure has everything to do with satisfying the personal interests of the winning loser and losing winner, and each of their followers. The tax payer is too flogged to cause any unrest ... so he will toil on, believing that his sweat and pain, is necessary to safeguard the country's interests. The tax payer who does not subscribe to the winning loser's school of thought, remains ambivalent, for he knows, there is little that he can really do. For the unaware, Kenya has a 92 member cabinet. In a country with slightly over 200 members of parliament, that is approximately 43 per cent of the entire legislature. Given the excess amounts of monthly salaries and allowances of each member of parliament
(approximately $12,000) and of each cabinet minister ($16000), the Kenyan tax payer will continue to rue the day he was born a Kenyan and the day he attained tax eligibility. I digress...So, here I am now saddled with maintaining an obese cabinet and obese parliament, a President I never chose and a prime minister I did not elect ... is this my lot as a Kenyan? Is the President my friend or my enemy? Is the Prime Minister my friend or my enemy? Who do I keep close? I am even more confused at the turn of events.
Did I mention I can barely afford food or gas for my car?
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