Sewe

Picture this: Asige and Faith Odhiambo, alongside Sifuna and Babu Owino, charting a new trajectory for Kenya under Gachagua’s leadership, with an agenda of ending corruption, upholding the rule of law and delivering justice. But how does a movement claim to dismantle a rotten system while relying on political actors who have sustained and benefited from it for decades? Who is providing the direction, and who gets to decide what this new trajectory looks like? Is this really a fight against the system, or simply a section of the system wrestling power from another section of the same system? A change of guard masquerading as a change of order? This is how systems survive. They reinvent themselves, repackage familiar faces and sell the public the illusion of a new beginning. Before this movement even reaches the ballot, it risks being co-opted by the very political interests it claims to oppose. The faces may change, the rhetoric may change, but the underlying power structures remain intact. Any system is sustained not by power alone, but also by the people who prop it up through greed, selfishness, complicity or ignorance. So tell me: if Kenyans want change so badly, why can't they vote for Sifuna directly? Why must they go through political brokers who have sustained and benefited from the same rotten system since the Moi era? And how did the struggle for change become a contest of hatred rather than one of facts, principles and accountability? When did political allegiance become more important than scrutinising the people asking for our trust? What we may be witnessing is a system fighting for its survival by manufacturing its own opposition. A political dragon devouring its own tail, only to grow another head and present itself as a new beast. The struggle is not necessarily to dismantle the system, but to determine who gets to control it. Hatred has never been a strategy for changing a nation. It breeds generational hatred and strife. Worse still, it blinds people to the very political manoeuvres they ought to question. If the intention is just to seize power, then that is a different issue.