My Advice to President Uhuru

Mr President, after several years of writing opinion pieces for the SIASA pullout, this will be the first time I address myself to you in person. I trust you will find my thoughts most helpful.

I'm not a prophet, but long before you and your deputy Ruto were an item, while both of you were for all intents and purposes nemesis, I knew you would team up in order to fight the ICC and even wrote about it in this very pullout.

Back then, I foresaw that the only way to defeat the ICC was for you to team up with Ruto and fight the ICC. I will admit that I don't know whether it was my opinion piece that opened your eyes to this fact or not, but the fact is that you teamed up and successfully seized power - fairly and squarely.

And just as I thought would happen, you out maneuvered the ICC prosecutor and she was left with no choice but to withdraw the case against you citing a lack of sufficient evidence to proceed with the case, never mind that she cited a lack of cooperation from you.

Kenya Vision 2030: Dreams and Destiny

Every so often I come across young people who have unflattering opinions about Vision 2030 and quite frankly a sizeable population of the youth just couldn’t be bothered about it. One very striking characteristic of development observable in all periods is the inability of people to envision their destiny. Understandably, when we look forward we naturally see insurmountable obstacles to future progress which can be powerfully disillusioning. Those obstacles create debilitating perceptual walls which are some of the most persistent obstacles to social progress. History however bears out that time and again there are no insurmountable obstacles only people who failed to perceive insurmountable obstacles as opportunities.

Death Warrants –President Kibaki’s Leadership Failure

For the first time in the history of our nation, ordinary citizens are beginning to have faith in the judiciary. Since independence, patronage, corruption, and dearth of the rule of the law plagued our entire legal system making it dysfunctional. However, the situation is improving dramatically and ordinary Kenyans are very optimistic thanks to the constitutional reforms being implemented by the Judicial Service Commission and the Chief Justice in particular. However, in the ongoing criminal justice system reforms, there is a big elephant in the room and it’s the failure by the President to sign death warrants for criminals sentenced to death.

Introduction

I have created this blog to serve you with information which as you know is power. Indeed the whole idea of sharing with you information is to empower you and to also bring you and all my followers to a common understanding so that we are united in purpose. I am a leader and that is what leaders do -they generate, communicate, and maintain commonality of purpose.

I consider myself an above average communicator; however, I think I communicate more effectively through the written word than through the spoken word. As you may know, I write commentaries on topical issues in the weekly Siasa pullout of the Weekend Star and that is a rather fulfilling experience which has contributed to the inspiration for create this blog. I also have a Facebook account which is actually the real inspiration behind this blog. Many of my friends on Facebook say they are really impressed by my posts and comments but the limitations and shortcomings of Facebook make me believe that perhaps a blog would be a helpful addition to my communication platforms -I could be wrong on this one though.

Like I began by saying, this blog is created to serve you and I want you to know that I am committed to serving you with excellence and integrity. My blogs will therefore be guided by the communication principles of correctness, clarity, consideration, completeness, courtesy, and conciseness. In conclusion, I believe that the best kind of leadership is that which produces fellowship.