PMG Blames The Electorate For Bad Leadership In The Country.
PMG Kamau (Njuguna Wa Ruthi), a 2017 Kandara Parliamentary
aspirant, said until the electorate altered their voting attitude, Kenya would
never find solutions to its socio-economic problems.
He said that as electorate the people have failed to serve
the country well by always coming up with indecisive vote, singling out the
practice of people electing “the local favourite”, the “local lunatic” or whoever
had money to dish out, at the expense of development conscious leaders who had
a great vision for their people.
“Our problem can be zeroed in on the leaders we elect and the
people we put in places of power and position and this matters a lot. The
electorate should begin to see how we elect the right people to the places of authority
and decision making. If we can resolve that, I think a lot of our problems will
be solved. Many times, the people with money also have good communication and
they can get into places of authority; but if we begin to define the kind of
country we are looking forward to and the people that can lead us to the place where
we want to be, we will get it right,” said PMG.
He lamented that Kandara Constituency and the general
Central Kenya Region lagged behind because the leaders who are in office intimidate
and scare off any efforts by their local elites to initiate any development
project in fear of losing popularity or their seats.
“Our greatest enemy especially in Kandara and Murang’a in
general are our people because of the kind of people we vote into office. Our youth
are suffering because you voted in the wrong crop of leaders. Let me tell you,
if you get it wrong in the choice of leadership, you must be ready to bear the
blunt of poor leadership. Choices have consequences (Deuteronomy 30). If you
want to identify a good leader, read Psalms 23 and John 10. If you want to
identify the wrong leader, he is in Ezekiel 34,” he added.
He added that the fruits of this kind of partnerships were
evident when the Kibaki regime moved the country from a GDP of 0% to 7%. This,
he said, had now boiled down to the grassroots where small groups and individuals
can now benefit and grow.
“My people perish for
lack of knowledge. We need to involve the best participatory practices by partnering
with those people who help develop our areas. The Kibaki Government succeeded
because in put on board the private sector who injected the best practices into
the government. The only devolved governments that will succeed in this era are
those that will embrace public-private partnerships into their governance,” he
said when he presided over a women groups leaders’ seminar in Kandara Town.
He said that the people needed to focus on result-based
management if at all they wanted anything meaningful in their areas.
“If we elect people based on what they can deliver rather than
what they just say, we will get it right. They can deliver very well, looking
at their track records and what they have been before being elected, I think it
will be part of the solution to the problem.” Said Wa Ruth.
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