Citizens fill forms during the public participation on the proposed impeachment of Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua at Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi on October 4, 2024.
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Wilfred Nyangaresi | Nation Media Group
The overarching nation-building project is being sabotaged by naked tribalism under hollow pretences.
It is a tragedy of monumental proportions that citizenship can be diminished through their choice of leaders.
It would be unpardonably disingenuous at this point to feign ignorance of the fact that significant portion of the national bandwidth ordinarily devoted to political discourse is presently preoccupied with a notice of motion before the National Assembly seeking the removal of the deputy president from office by way of impeachment, setting the stage for a parliamentary process of unprecedented architectonic political and constitutional consequence.
This is not going to be a discussion of the merits or even the facts of the motion, or a dissection of the person or office of the deputy president in any shape or form. Rather, it will be an invitation to reflect on the magnitude of this moment, and the tantalising possibility that our country's politics has, for better or worse, forever escaped the disconcerting liminality which, like a relentless quagmire, has for a decade and half, arrested us from exiting the ancient dispensation and entering the progressive, liberal democratic order.
