Narc-Kenya Puts Off Elections Yet Again

The party which president Kibaki intends to contest the presidency with has pushed forward its party polls from this weekend to March 3 as acrimony and confusion was experienced countrywide over the procedure of establishing electoral panels.

Sharp differences arose between incumbent MPs and aspirants with the latter accusing the former of using their influence as legislators to manipulate the process in bid to throw democracy out of the window.

It is common knowledge that current MP's aligned to the government are doing everything to ensure that they get the Narc-Kenya nomination as this, they think, will save them a lot of money for campaigning as they look forward to the Kibaki administration to substantially fund their campaigns.

And again, there are those who come from central Kenya and the Mount Kenya region who know that securing the party ticket will mean automatic access to parliament as people who live in this areas will automatically vote for those in Kibaki's party without giving it a second thought—or so it is assumed.

However, those who will attempt to vie on Narc-K ticket in Nyanza and to a large extent, the Rift valley will be committing political suicide. Still this may not be of major concern of greed comes into play, and many contestants will be on a money-making mission.

If the current political situation is anything to go by, over 60% of Kibaki's cabinet ministers will lose their parliamentary seats and he himself could lose the presidency whether he contests under Narc-K or not so he should be busy trying to right the numerous wrongs that his administration has committed in the past four years including entrenching tribalism deeper into the Kenyan society (mainly through appointments made) and condoning high level corruption.