Written by Gitau wa Kung'u (honkungujulius@gmail.com).
With youthfulness comes dancing energy, spirit of adventure, knowledge, rebelliousness, many trials and errors, pride and chest thumping. But youthfulness, with its energy flies into middle-age and rests not long before shooting up into the elder's timeslot. With age, surely comes grey hair. This the most critical timeslot.
Because with ignorance, arrogance and pride a youth turns to be a despicable, physically mature but intellectually immature old idler, wandering in the libraries of knowledge. But with proactive reasoning, humility and diligence a youth turns into a respected, mature, age ripened person owning a behemoth bank of wisdom. I choose to reason.
When I watch, I remember my childhood and feel actual mortification for our young boys matching besides the wheelbarrow, as they sing loudest and dance fashionably to impress the wheelbarrow driver the most and thus book the next pleasurable wheelbarrow trip.
A trip that more often than not got us rolled into a ditch and sent us flying in the air with a yelling only thunder can match! And the wisest of us came back not crying on the same wheelbarrow but on our limping feet and dull faces painted with remorse.
Just like I felt powerfully ignorant, before I thoughtfully watched the Jubilee leadership and saw our elders taking control of the place and sitting in the cockpit of the orange-red plane with incredible confidence. This is what I concluded:
It's safe for the cub that follows the leader of the hunting lion pack than greedy the cub that follows the hyena because it pulls a carcass.
Our elders have a great vision for the nation. Didn't the sages say that man seated on a "njûngw'a" sees further than the tallest boy perched on the crown of the tallest tree? Amongst the men seated on the short stool is Hon Jamleck Kamau.
Hon Jamleck has a great vision. But many people fail to discern the eventuality. I had not thought deeply about his decision to join Jubilee but now I understand.
Because he decided to remain in Jubilee party, rather than board the yellow wheelbarrow, he is not a traitor. He is brave and a truely roaring lion.
A willful people that remains united for a great purpose prevail in the simple and worst challenges. And the wise people stand that they shall not hold back from doing what we must; ensure that the future of Murang'a County is only safe in the hands of Hon Jamleck. The word is spreading and deepening roots fast and far. It's only the politically ignorant who doesn't feel the thriving storm.
Thus soon will the yellow wave fade as fast away as it first spread, on the advent of Hon Jamleck's hand holding high the best manifesto agenda and a treasure of humble, credible leadership experience into Murang'a.
"If God is for us, who can be against us? I humbly want to instil confidence in my supporters that we are stronger than we think, we are heroes and we are on the right track. Yes we will make the next Murang'a County government together! Yes I will make the 2nd Murang'a governor on Jubilee ticket. Yes we shall have credible, transformational, corruption free, diversified but convergent and wise governance! Twende mbele pamoja kabisa kabisa. Every Murang'a citizen's dream is valid. Let's unite, trust in God and work to realise it," Hon Jamleck wraps up for us.
(The writer is a; Moi University student, creative writer, unpublished author and poet, TLM Moi University editor, political analyst and blooming policy strategist).
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