Silas Jakakimba. I see your name after every two Facebook posts on my timeline. Whatever dose you gave to these people, it, really, is working. Dikembe Disembe broke the linguistic bank deconstructing you, the other day - what you stand for, how far you have got here, and whats in store if Homa Bay puts their trust in you. It was as compelling as it was convincing. It is the rare head-start that you needed. Others must now play catch-up. But Facebook is not a polling station. Ask Martha Karua and Peter Kenneth. Your team must now differentiate between a political by-election and the OLX Social Media Awards. Currently, a stranger in this Jerusalem might be forgiven for thinking that you are running for the position of the Most Influential Facebook Personality. Your task now is to steady the ship and moderate the quality of information coming through from your online militia. Kenyans are a forgetful lot. This is the time to start reminding us the number of times you defended ODM when our enemies were out for our necks. The more we cant remember the number of times you bailed out the party, the less likely we shall associate with your candidature. Look at Caroli Omondi. We have been told how he mismanaged party funds when he was at Capitol Hill. You also heard Eliud Owalos name being dragged around town carrying that badge of dishonour. Caroli Omondi is back in the race with you. We have been quickly reminded how the plot of land in which Orange House sits belongs to him. The way he used his personal resources to bankroll ODM when somebody refused to share the PIN numbers of party accounts in 2013. We, also, hear he is a Jubilee mole. But that is one hell of a mole you may not match in terms of tangible party contribution. His reputation has already preceded him. Ababu Namwamba was also a mole, he is, now, the most powerful man in the current ODM triad. Politics, they will tell you, is about networks. Silas Jakakimba. What networks have you built within the party, over the years? Are they that strong to dismantle those of Fred Rabongo, a former NSSF Managing Trustee? I ask this because we all know ODM nomination exercises are neither free nor fair. No party in Kenya has ever, successfully, conducted a nomination exercise that would meet the acceptable threshold. And if there was, ever, a position that ODM would easily give to anyone without thinking twice, then, that position is that of the Senator. Very few Kenyans can clearly articulate what Senators are paid to do. Sen. Prof. Peter Anyang Nyongo even had the audacity to take a two-month sabbatical to go and relax in far-away Harvard and you never, ever, heard the people of Kisumu County complaining about it. It tells you how meaningless Kenyans think of that position you are currently sweating over. Silas Jakakimba. I am told you are Raila Odingas blue-eyed boy. Baba likes you, Mama is proud of you. And that, Silas Jakakimba, is where the problem sits. When youre being seen as a child, Mzee would never allow you to venture outside and face the murky waters of politics. Baba knows how dirty grassroots politics can be. I am sure you heard the story of that MP who urinated on the ODM ballot papers in a polling station that belonged to their rival. The boxes were destroyed, and they, subsequently, won. I am looking at you, Silas Jakakimba, and I am seriously doubting if you can even piss against the wind. ODM has its owners. I doubt if, whenever the owners sit, your name ever crosses their minds. Silas Jakakimba. Still, I wish you well. Silently I pray you go in there and smash that glass ceiling for the young people of this country. You are coming up against well-oiled giants who know where cracks in ODM are, and theyre willing to exploit that to their advantage. Still, you must brave on. Be comforted knowing that the youth of this country are cheering you on.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:25:05 +0000
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