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Kenya Rugby's Retune Moment Beckons.


Kenya Rugby Union moves into a critical phase in the coming weeks. Today, our rugby stands at an inflection point as the Kenya Simbas are contending for a slot in the 2023 Rugby World Cup. The Swahili say “mgala muue lakini haki yake mpe.” The covid 19 stimulated problems notwithstanding, the current Kenya Rugby leadership has done a commendable job. 

Nevertheless, as you’d suppose, during an election period, there are aplenty of campaigns everywhere and Kenya is not an exception. From the aspirants summarizing why they should be voted over their opponents to the positions, they are planning to compete for. Not to mention, the candidates also discourse our rugby problems and provide some strategies. 

It’s also an open secret that the aspirants fight tooth and nail to leave behind a gorgeous impression on the voter’s heads by showcasing themselves as delightful. Add the campaign spectacle, often full of promises. Of course, the promises are intended to transform our rugby tenfold- that’s why clubs take them genuinely. 

Heart-rending, some of the promises are short-lived. I suppose everyone recollects wholehearted promises by various aspirants that dropped to dust after confronting the harsh truths, not to mention the readjusted priorities. 

I reason that campaign promises that lack evidence-based approaches should be discarded by the electorates. Since politics is not a derby of politicians only. We are also assistants in our disasters time and again, yet we yell the loudest. 

Voters must hold hopeful aspirants to account on the elections manifesto. Even coaches constantly review their teams and strategies to ascertain progress. Also, candidates must construct feedback mechanisms that make them accessible to the voters when they are voted in. Besides, follow-up means to enable electorates to track the progress of the promised projects should be created. 

Frankly, executive boards are only as good or bad as the leaders in them and run the organizations. Leadership can never be better than its people. It’s yet to occur in the world and I guarantee it can never happen.

That said, some leaders put personal desires over our rugby interests. They position their friends ahead of the idea of Kenya as a hopeful rugby powerhouse. They openly thieve our future and give some voters hand-outs that they shamelessly fight over with no regard to dignity. Even the wildebeests do not harm each other while crossing the greater Masai Mara-Serengeti ecosystem. 

 At times, whom we elect relies on how much the candidate has or promised to steal for us. Our flaws are corruption and the lack of public shame. Nowadays, those who loot from the littlest things amongst us are our Mekatilili wa Menza. We damage one another. Perhaps, we’re yet to conceptualize that the welfare of one is welfare for all. 

On 30th March, we must vote in leaders who’ve attested in the public and personal lives that they can reset our rugby structures, leaders who will reset our national rugby foundations, and confirmed that they love us not our votes. It’s said that politics can be a shortcut to riches for a few and suffering for a majority. As long as we keep making wrong choices at the ballot, we shall forever live in regrets.

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Kenna said…
Awesome content
Thank you for enlighting and bringing in what has been lost.its time to restore the glory.
Keep up buddy
March 21, 2022 at 2:58 PM
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