Tomorrow my beloved country Kenya decides, there is no doubt that the protracted campaign period offered us an opportunity to make well-informed decisions at the ballot. Whoever wins in whatever positions, we will still have a country to call home.
Tomorrow is a big day because as a people, we are hiring managers to take care of certain vital government functions both at the national and county levels for the benefit of everyone.
If you have had an opportunity to go beyond the borders of our country you realize that both your name and your ethnic identity remain behind and everyone identifies you as a Kenyan. That’s when you realize that we are not just members of certain tribes or ethnic groups but citizens of a great Nation.
Instead, we allow our leaders to divide us and make us hate each other because our leaders don’t see themselves as our employees. They believe they are superior to those who hired them. Our politicians revel in a divided nation where they hide their weaknesses and failures behind their tribes. We believe them and look up to them as to the gods. We too will do anything to protect “our” leader.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. We don’t have to be tribesmen. We can be responsible citizens. For those of us who are called by the Name, we can be people who do NOT worship our leaders; people who only worship the living God, who genuinely love and care for our neighbor, and who honor and pray for our leaders. And yes, God is sovereign over all, and the choices we make have inescapable consequences.
My only humble plea to everyone is that whatever choices we make, let us be prepared to embrace the outcome and interact PEACEFULLY with one another. It is our democratic choice.
