OUR LAISSEZ-FAIRE PRESIDENT (Hon. President Mwai Kibaki)

I had to go back and review the various leadership styles, in a bit to understand President Kibaki`s governing style. For some of us who believe in keeping track of progress and working as a team, yes delegating but ensuring that what was set out to be done has been done; I find it very hard to understand the old  man. See if we were talking about a project and you have assigned various duties to specific individuals I’d be ok with the laissez-faire approach ; if it was negotiating agreements with foreign companies or states I would totally understand; I would also understand if he never spoke a word in his house and let mama Lucy dictate… sorry…run everything. But what I don`t understand is how the old man can go about his daily chores as scores of people are killed in Tana and other parts of the country!

Lest Mr. President forget we are in elections season, what would be acceptable in other days (silence) is not acceptable now! Kenyans did not elect you to sit back and watch; they elected you to act day or night. The day you chose to become the President of Kenya you forfeited you right to silence and ‘doing things your way’ in any matter that concerns the country. People don`t care what you have going on behind the scenes, they need to know that you care about them. That life in Kenya for a commoner is as valuable as that of a member of parliament. (Don`t get me started on the teachers/doctors/lecturers strike).

People believe in you Mr President. There is still a window of opportunity you can seize to get this right and make it right. Not for you but for every Kenyan. It’s about time you showed Kenyans that their welfare is important. By now we should have heard a national address on the matter and forces sent to reinforce the area. You sent our forces into Somalia to keep our borders safe, now we need you to send forces to Tana to save the lives of mothers, children, elderly men and women who are defenseless. Mr. President I may not jump up and down about it but you are my President and I respect that, what I do not respect is you toying with the lives of Kenyans. Stand up and act NOW because we demand it of you and your position rightly requires that you do so.

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