This archive report was first published on 6 October 2019.
Published on October 6, 2019, Kenya's love affair with politics has turned chronic, with tragedy becoming a national pastime.
Death, induced by malfeasance, has become a national pastime. Innocent lives are lost due to collapsed classrooms, terrorism, and debilitating starvation. Jobless youths are plodding about the Nairobi traffic, cursing the day they were born.
Some have thrown in the towel and committed suicide, while others have joined in wreaking havoc on the nation through crime, unfazed by the cries and agonies of their victims.
One can be forgiven to believe that anything and anyone in Kenya has the potential of being a death-trap. The buck-passing nature of Kenyans has led to blame being shifted from the tribal and political elite to various groups, including university graduates, humanities and social sciences students, and a lack of entrepreneurial spirit among the youth.
Today, we are even blaming millennials, socialites, and slay queens. It's only in Kenya where a politician has the gut to tell a gathering that incessant politicking is taking us back without looking at the mirror.
For instance, how are millennials responsible for the hellish experience Likoni ferry victims went through? Every government institution since independence, including the Transport ministry, has been under the command of the Generation X and Baby Boomers, who land those positions due to political patronage and tribalism.
