Collective Responsibility unknown In today's leadership

According to the free online dictionary collective responsibility is a concept or doctrine according to which individuals are to be held responsible for other people's actions by tolerating, ignoring, or harbouring them, without actively collaborating in these actions. it is based on convention,or usage rather than by law, and requires that once a decision has been taken up by a group, all members are bound by it and must support it.

In the United Kingdom, the doctrine applies to all members of the government, from members of the cabinet down to Parliamentary Private Secretaries.Its inner workings are set out in the Ministerial Code. 

Collective responsibility is when people are held responsible for other people's actions. This is because they tolerated or ignored the behaviours but did not participate in them, In this case everyone takes the blame for one person's actions.

If you asked me to show you how this is being observed in our current UhuRuto Governance I will have problems identifying individuals who are adhering. But ask for the flip side of it and I will parade a whole list of it that you'll be amazed...and actually it doesn't require a lot of research. Its not new though as previous Governments have been setting precedents for continuity of the super-blame game that always leaves the Kenyan Guessing who is really Responsible.

Its intriguing how these pseudo-leaders find the guts of proudly disowning their very own undoings...analogically speaking I think government officials ought to treat their work as a family is run... You don't blame your kindergarten daughter for leaving the lights on overnight and it is you who left her watching cartoons while you dozed off! these would-be-servant-leaders of ours boldly call a press conference to express how they wont resign; justifying with statements like; "I was not aware", " It is my juniors who did it", " that's  not my work" .....

how awesome would it be if guys Like Kimunya(Embassy sale scandal), Prof Kaimenyi (Laptop tendering), Kiraitu(Triton), Uhuru (Computer error!), Shollei ( Judiciary funds), and the like would own up to their own in-competencies in running their offices and stepped aside alongside their junious? this would pave way for new up-task  Kenyans to take over such positions. 

but nope; they wouldn't... and if they were where would  our other friend Tribalism be?

Somebody needs to enforce this, if even such a law exists in this country... to ensure that these gentlemen and ladies in those high offices do not earn these fat salaries lying down and running scams as their juniours work their asses off.and also to discourage the juniours from behaving like programmed zombies who cannot raise alarm when they are being exploited or when their bosses get roguish.

I even think that once you have been suspected of a wrongdoing involving public resources you shouldn't be eligible for appointment to a public office any more, whether guilty or not. I mean why should we? There thousands of Kenyans with great credentials who can fill up your position... I don't see why we should even have a principal secretary(formerly PS) serving three governments in three different ministries.... this explains the continued massive knowledge loss we experiencing as educated Kenyans seek jobs abroad.

Undervalued Brides

On saturday we celebrated the International Women's Day, and truly this day reminds us of the women in our lives...and it gave us a chance to remember in a special way these unsung heroes who have braved a lot to raise a whole six Billion+ of the world's population...

And in Africa we all know women haven't just braved the hazards ofjust raising the children, but worse still
the hostel treatment by men (leaders, their husbands and evetually their sons). They have been customarily trated as commodities and their rights have been seriously infringed.

I was very enthusiastic, of course I texted some of the ladies (they prefer being called that..I dont know why!) in my life and they were appreciative of the far that we have come from the medieval culture of mutilation, wife inheritance and aterialization

Fifteen years ago it would have been a terrible joke to imagine that Africa would have a woman President! . . . not even that, . . . a legislator

I would not have written this..were it not for a distant Aunt of mine, a woman of  great wisdom and a mother of eight who lost her life in the hands of a mob on the same day... She was the kind of woman who you would relate with at your age and be comfortable... even at her age, 70, she still braved the scorching Rift Valley sun and plant and harvest her crops.

Monopoly Bus Service to Rationalize Public Transport

Yesterday's strike by matatu operators is a reminder of the constant menace that is our public transport system, a headache that no one seems to find a remedy for over the last two decades.

Taxis blocking City Hall way during Wednesday's Strike

All town dwellers will agree with that its only a few days that they have reached home and never complained about the bad traffic, hiked fairsor unreturnd change to the smelly touts and the greasy sits that one is subjected to with no other option, or even the rude careless language the operators have perfected.

This got me thinking about the good old KBS service which had been commisioned to provide transport in the 90s by the government at an affordable price and offer reliability. Matatus were hardly allowed into townn and there was security of a stable fare system.

Campus students for instance would have cards which they could subscribe monthly and actually get to traverse the city without having to pay for different destinations! That sounds heavenly..right?

Nowadays you can hardly

Rogue YOU!!!

Is it not annoying when you an unqualified individual working in an office he clearly doesnt deserve and he flaunts his authority on you?



Or take the example of that watchman in an Elgeyo-Marakwet county who was comfortably working as a nurse and proceeded to offer his 'services' to the county boss!

I could also give examples of numerous guys I know in the displined forces whose dreams are in finance, education, economics, communications and even medicine. With this I think to work in the army one should have a passion, a great sense of patriotism and the physical wellness to top it up.

NO Professor

Mixed felings have been ellicited by the release of the KCSE 2013 results by Prof. Kaimenyi yesterday. Of course this is expected because there's not a time when humans are going to fully agree on one thing or have the same sentiments about an issue (That is why we have the law!)

Now, the good professor has been in the news for a myriad reasons since he assumed the Helm of the powerful Education ministry. Notable times are his handling of the teachers strike and his vehement support for the laptop project which his Government is keen to fulfill.


His always stern face and and his severe tone which he uses most of the time cannot over-emphasize his resolve to do his job. I  remember when I was in Meru School when he was called as the Board chairman to handle grievances by students he left the then principal  Kariuki D.G.on his own in the hall after students became rowdy... He is a busy man and arguably no-nonsense!



So when he says that the age of children joining primary school should be six and that those below ages of 14 and 18 will not be allowed to do the national exams 9KCPE and KCSE respectively) he is serious.

Monopoly Looms as Essar Exits

The exit of mobile Service provider Yu Mobile from the market is a blow to many Kenyans who were used to the unbelievable tariffs offered by the Essar owned company.

A significant 3 million subcribers will be forced to adjust their connection budgets from the ridiculously free call rates to Airtel's rates although they will retain there phone numbers.

A Yu advert showing the incredible offers of free calls that had revolutionized the lives of poor Kenyans.

The ailing service provider has been making losses to the tune of 3 Billion annually and since 2009 had accumulated up to 25 Billion in losses.

This leaves an almost perfect oligopolistic market with the leader Safaricom enjoying quite huge powers. the future of Orange is now in question judging from the fact that it had even less market share compared to YU Mobile which enjoyed 8.8 percent.

Newspaper Photographs Wanting

I should not be judged as to be an everyday newspaper reader (..I rarery even buy one unless there's a serious issue I have to get details on, or a job advert I must check..), but I would say in my defence (after you read this!) that I have an appreciation for good photography.

Living in a country where only two papers achieve national readership and carry the bulk of Kenya readership, I don think anyone should be blamed for allegiance, or so we could say about friends of mine who assert that The Standard has arguably the best paper quality and illustrations.

I could say they are more frequent readers than I am so they might be justified to laugh at my vouching for The Daily Nation as having a more appealing presentation of content.

One interesting thing about the place of newspapers in todays era of new media in its ability to attract varied types of audience  is that the placement of stories and their enhancement with photographs counts alot in its reception.

TV radio and the internet have an upperhand in terms of audio, visual and scannerbility, such that some people believe that there'll come a time when newspapers will become extinct. I disagree,

Let's Postpone Chaos

The height of political indiscretion was show-cased yesterday as ODM polls were turned into a playground of humans messed each other up and all this infront of the cameras

It is such a dark day for the Kenyan's opposition party which is hoping to clinch the 2017 presidential elections

but this really isnt a surprise as all indicators were showing that something abnormal was going to happen. from the dramatic withdrawals of current party officials to the heated rivarly among the two camps, really a normal election would have been a miracle.

mayhem at the delegates meeting

And to think that the omission of a candidates name brought the whole elections crumbling..it is if I could invent this word now, cryable!

But thats kenya for us......If it was another political party probably the script would be the same..just a different cast.

perhaps TNA's elections four years from now is a good way of postponing  imminent chaos... I think so ...

the larger the gap between elections the better for us... we are spared the grimace of staring at wasted resources and knowing that the few we have entrusted with our leadership can't even handle their own squabbles

what if we were to give presidents a 10 year term... dont you think poll chaos would be greatly postponed?

***Photo courtesy of diasporamessenger.com