If there is one significant achievement Ruto has managed to achieve since taking office, is this; he has awakened the political consciousness of all Kenyans from the young (grade 1 pupils) to the old, rich and poor, religious and non-religious, sick and healthy, men and women. A new wave of civic awareness is emerging.
But how did we get here? Answer: bad leadership!
One thing Barbara Kellerman points out in her book; Leadership from Bad to Worse is that bad leadership is not only ubiquitous but also pernicious. In simple terms what that that means is…
Uongozi mbaya, haitambui, umri wako, kabila yako, familia yako, ukoo wako, mkoa wako, dini yako au chamaa yako itapiga stick regardless of who or where you are in the country.
She goes on to write, that at the core of bad leadership is bad followership.
Ubiquitous means far reaching or everywhere. Pernicious means destructive or damaging.
So Ruto’s bad leadership has negatively affected almost every sector of the economy, from health, education, business, forestry, tourism, manufacturing etc…
Jambass will be assassinated juu ya ushamba na ujinga. Ikiwa peasant anaweza kukugonga na kiatu, na hana ingine, na hana family lawyer. What do you think in going on in the minds of other citizens with the means to do something worse?
Jambass ni kama wale gangsters husurvive for a long time kwa hustle zao wakiwa tu poa alafu wanakuwa too confident and over-ambitious inawamaliza. Watu wanabaki kushangaa mbona alienda kutafuta vitu hahitaji.
Jambass ameuawa watu, amesurvive. Ameiba kila mahali, amesurvive. Alafu kichwa inamwambia hakuna kitu inaweza mshtua. Kidogo kidogo alambishwe risasi na askari amechizi na depression shida zetu ziishe.