HOW TO DISENFRANCHISE KENYANS

The partition of Africa started in earnest at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 convened by the German Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck for a few European leaders on how best to share the spoils in Africa without causing unnecessary conflict among the Europeans. Even with the misery that this scramble for portions of Africa brought to people, new African leaders and the elite don't seem to care how imposition of leaders to citizens affect their lives. The new constitution in our country seems to have given impetus to a new scramble for political seats that have been created in counties and the senate. Political schemers under the guise of "professionals" seem to have borrowed a leaf from the Berlin Conference and are now meeting in posh hotel rooms away from the glare of citizens so as to plan how to share "elective" seats among themselves in 2012. If this is not another way of disenfranchising Kenyans by imposing leaders just like they did at the Berlin Conference, then I wonder what is. Kenyans agitated and shed blood over the years in search of this constitution but it's likely that they will only get the shorter end of the stick after the 2012 elections unless there is a drastic change in the way political affairs are managed. I suppose one way out is to fortify governance structures to protect the gullible majority from the few shrewd political manipulators. There is need also to come in with massive civic education to help the majority make informed choices of leaders regardless of their corrupt shenanigans. That is one good way of ensuring that we reap from the new constitution and lock out the selfish schemers. The civil society has its cloth cut out for this and they should act now!