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02@ MarketingAfrica MAL59 / 24 ISSUE Marketing Africa
Death Of A Dream
Kenyans read the other day that Finland had been voted the happiest country in the world for the seventh year in a row and Kenyans on X ( formerly and still known as Kenyans on Twitter ) wondered just how this measurement was taken .
They could not comprehend how a country which is actually a fridge can be regarded as the happiest place on earth unless it is because in Finland there is no hell as even that dreaded infernal place is frozen over there .
The KOTs are however in agreement that Kenya is the most delusional country in the world given our collective penchant to make outrageous political decisions that create hellish living conditions for Kenyans in general . Hence our perpetual lamentations .
A decade ago , Kenyans , in a state of national stupor , decided that it was time for the country to be led by the youth . The dynamic duo of UhuRuto were on the menu despite the fact that they had both been indicted at the ICC for the PEV in 2007 .
Even after being warned that choices have consequences , Kenyans chose inexperience over caution and the Kenyans were served a decade of lack-luster performance in which the political bromance between the two protagonists totally broke down .
By the end of their second term the dynamic duo was expending more of their energy in trying to bring each other down and the sitting president even went as far as warning the populace not to elect a thief .
But then Kenyans are used to electing criminals and in fact it is considered a necessary requirement . A highly ranked government official once remarked that in Kenya it is actually dangerous to be honest , you risk your job and even life .
Defying all logic , Kenyans decided that one half of a failed duo would outperform the two and decided to confer the sensitive position of the presidency to an unprincipled betrayer , forgetting there is still honor among thieves .
That the incoming president had chosen a person with a booklet of a charge sheet as a running mate should have made any rightthinking citizen to hesitate but the church was at hand to anoint them as the chosen of Elohim .
After making their inane decision at the ballot , Kenyans stepped into 2023 with an arrogant swagger after all , the incoming leadership had proclaimed that they were going to show Kenyans how a country is run , since the jokers were out .
This type of behavior is the reason why Kenya has been voted the most optimistic country in Africa . It is confounding that Kenyans simply don ’ t understand that there is no right way to do the wrong thing . If you sow maize , you reap maize not wheat .
It is a well-known cliché that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome is an accepted definition of madness yet Kenyans persist in voting in criminals while decrying corruption at the same time .