By Shazia Majale,
I may want to be cool, calm, and collected, but the happenings in Kenya can’t allow me to. We keep being bewildered by one scandal after another, and recently, well, not to downplay the big headlines in the news, but a Kenyan is really curious about what is happening in the famous Mt.Kenya region. The ‘ Murima’ that won’t be touched is having all the publicity.
Top on the curiosity list is why exactly does the mountain feel so special or is it isolated? By now, any sane person knows they do not matter in politics. It’s only the strategies and alignments that add up to numbers at the ballot box.
Somehow, however, the big wigs from the mountain are feeling all too important when any of them could be irrelevant at any point. Lessons from before have reminded us all too well how politicians have shot themselves in their feet in the heat of the moment. Right now, so many are reading from the same old books.
The hot mountain has caught the attention of many trying to control when and how it spews its contents just in case it does.
From the deputy president, who is a self-proclaimed owner of the mountain, to the president’s diehards talking aimlessly at anyone who has an ear and the protectors of the mountain who claim to know the mountain, the circus seems a little overcrowded, and the spectators are leaving one after the other.
The other leaders from the mountain are also doing a little too much and watering down the importance of the Mt Kenya region. The mountain is not what it usually is: respected and important; it has turned out to be a ridicule of the entire nation, a joke not to be taken seriously. The inhabitants of the mountain are also in awe of what an ugly, underwhelming lot the politicians are.
The bubbling mountain has got so many on tenterhooks, waiting for what happens next. The verbal diarrhea keeps being the show of the season before we move on to something else.
In keen watch, however, are the citizens eager to know what the mountain eventually spews and who will have the last laugh, as the recent political alignments seem to rub so many the wrong way.
