Dear Roz,
Some people want change they have not defined.If its about the constitution,well - its just a document to talk about without applying to the daily life.
And plz note that if u wont blame,then u will be to blame.But nobody is ever willing and ready to take responsibility.
Evans MACHERA
From: roz kahumbu <rozkah2005@yahoo.com>
To: "NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com" <NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Political Party Nominations 2013 - A Sneak Preview
To: "NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com" <NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [NVK-Mageuzi] Political Party Nominations 2013 - A Sneak Preview
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From: cfonyango <cfonyango@yahoo.com>
To: NVK-Mageuzi@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 6:45 PM
Subject: [NVK-Mageuzi] Political Party Nominations 2013 - A Sneak Preview- Our political parties do not have the structures and institutional mechanisms to conduct nominations through universal suffrage, i.e. opening the nominations to participation of non-members with someone only needing an ID and having their names on the voters roll . - It is like doing a mini election or something along the lines of what the IEBC would do. Just that parties have neither the structures nor Institutional mechanisms that IEBC has. This election is going to cost the IEBC about 15 billion Kshs. and the planning for it has been in the offing since 2009 when the IIEC was formed and battle tested during the 2010 constitutional referendum. Parties have neither that kind of money nor the institutional means to pull of something of the kind IEBC would do. Remember that many of these parties come into being just months ago. - Telling Kenyans that nominations are to be done via universal suffrage creates unrealistic expectations that parties are really not in a position to meet. - Do the voters seriously think that the polling stations for these party nominations were going to open at 6.am? If one thought so, then one is naïve. - What do we need to do? Kenyans need to take interest in political parties as institutions of governance in more than just at nomination or election time. - Why not be a member of party and help build the institutions of that party rather than just waking up one day at 6.am claiming that you are going to vote in the nominations of a party where you have never even bothered to register as a member? Many Kenyans are naïve enough to think that being a member of party is simply being a supporter of or someone who would vote for candidates of that party at an election. Just look at some of the news reports on the nominations and you will see things like "ODM/TNA/URP/UDF members get agitated over delays in starting nominations". - We will never have sound parties in Kenya as long as the state is only giving Kshs. 200, 000, 000.00 (2 hundred million) annually to be shared among 50 registered parties. That is a drop in the ocean. Yet the same people making noise about delayed nominations are the same ones who will oppose state funding to political parties. Yet in a society like ours where most live on less than 1 US $ a day it is unrealistic to imagine that sound parties can ever be sustained by nothing other than state subvention. - The political parties, just like other weak institutions in Kenya, are a reflection of the kind of society that we are. We are a last minute society. Is it just now that we are discovering the sorry state of our political parties? I saw you write that the nominations will result is leaders as shambolic as the process. I could not agree more. Just that these shambolic institutions and persons do not exist in a vacuum. The soil in which they thrive is that of the Kenyan society. We as Kenyans like to criticize and complain from afar, but very few of us are willing to actually join these parties (pay ten or twenty shillings) work from within to make them better institutions. Just waiting to complain on nomination day that there are no ballot papers when you have never even thought ot joining that party is very armchair way of operating. What did we actually expect? Did we even seek to volunteer to assist on that nomination day? - There can be no strong parties in Kenya without massive infusion of state subvention. Period. In its heyday KANU was what it was because of state support. Just that this time round the state should support not just the ruling party but others that meet the minimum threshold of having received at least 5% of the vote at a general election. It is encouraging to see that in the new Political Parties Act of 2011 state subvention of political parties has been pegged at "not less than 0.3% of the revenue collected by the government as may be provided by Parliament". Our revenue collection is in the range of hundreds of billions, actually almost a trillion. So one is talking about good money here. - There is really no rocket science here. Just go to Tanzania where CCM and even smaller partied like CUF, CHADEMA, and NCCR have real structures and institutional mechanisms because of the substantive state subvention that they have been receiving. These parties have formidable assets. This is the case believe you me even in Zimbabwe of all the places. How then has MDC managed to be such a strong force? The same goes for South Africa. - Nowhere in the Africa and maybe even in most so-called "under-developed" parts of the world will you have any serious governance related institutions emerging without close proximity to and massive support from the state. - It is also time that the Office of Registrar was filled in accordance with the new Act so that there can be more robust enforcement of the laws that relate to political society. Failure to fill that office prior to the elections is major folly. It is just like we Kenyans never learn. Weak institutions can only deliver problems. If one doubts that then they only need to remember the ECK of 2007-2008. CFO
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