Did Somebody Register The Orange Democratic Movement For Financial Gain?

The ODM (a popular movement that emerged out of the November referendum on a new constitution) is being transformed into a political party, but there’s a snag. Somebody or some people rushed to the registrar of societies and quickly registered the name.

Their intentions seem to be clear now because ODM leading lights have announced that they are ready to enter into negotiations for the name. This comes shortly after the registered ODM warned that the unregistered ODM are not allowed to use oranges as their symbol.

It seems that some smart Kenyans saw a business opportunity and made and investment that is about to pay off big. My guess is that they must have heard about those guys who have been making a fortune online by registering domain names in anticipation of future demand and just transferred the idea offline.

This blogger however holds a different view about all this trouble Opposition politicians are going into to stick to the ODM name. This movement was linked to the referendum, which has nothing to do with the upcoming general elections. Surely politicians of all people should know that politics is a very fluid science where a week can be a long time, let alone a couple of months. It seems that the Orange guys have taken some advice from some hot shot marketing person that is best suited for a product. Using the same advice for a political party is very dodgy and I have a feeling that the ODM officials will one day regret taking the advice. For example what happens to the people who voted against the new constitution but will vote for President Kibaki (oranges who will vote banana). Or the huge number of banana supporters who voted for the new constitution because they had taken time to read it but will not vote for the Kibaki administration?

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