Drama unfolded in the Senate after Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah and Speaker Amason Kingi engaged in a heated exchange over Omtatah’s demand for evidence to support claims of misuse of public funds.
Tensions escalated when Kingi told Omtatah that he could not dictate how the House operates. In response, the senator insisted that, as a representative of taxpayers, he had a duty to "dictate" how public money is spent, adding that he would rather be ejected from the House than be part of what he described as a scam.
We spent a lot of time popularizing the #WeAreAllKikuyus movement, then some people wake up and post this kind of tribal nonsense like Kenya has not suffered enough from ethnic stupidity.
Such statements take us backwards. They feed the same poison we have been fighting, where every political disagreement is turned into a tribal war and every community is dragged into battles created by politicians and their mouthpieces.
Kenya does not need such polarizing people on social media. We already have enough problems without adding reckless tribal incitement from people chasing likes and cheap applause.
This is exactly the kind of garbage that keeps the country stuck.