The aspiring young politicians storm the offices each morning looking for handouts ranging from CDF money to political campaign funds. The MPs, governors and senators would wish to be on the good books of the students, so they'll have to part with whatever little money they can get to give as handout. The students suddenly win their election, establish a name, for themselves in the national political arena, and then go ahead and challenge them in the National Election. On the other hand, if they are not given money for campaign, they end up losing election, re-strategies by working with the opponents of the MPs or so and use that as an excuse to campaign against the MPs in their constituencies.
The "jackpot politics" is not a new phenomenon in Kenyan politics for having started during the Kenyatta era, escalated during Moi's regime, perfected during the Kibaki's administration and digitalized in the Uhuru's tenure. The university community has not been left behind. You will hear a student innocently asking a student leader, to buy them lunch since they get something good from SONU, the Executive SONU official is assured of carrying home around Ksh. 16,000 per month as their monthly as their remuneration and meeting allowances which are paid depending on the number off sittings. The 10 executive members also divide ksh. 31,000,000 amongst themselves in the name of holding events. More often than ever do the student’s leaders create a crisis in the campus, and a meeting to iron out the issue where the pay package is increased. The SONU executive members constitutes 10 top executive members and 11-campus representatives. The KUSO, MUSO, TuKSO are among the students bodies in the Kenyan political limelight, but SONU have always turned to be a nightmare to the government of the day and the university administration. Speaking of leadership and morality, speak of respect to your elders, speak of respecting your lecturers, speak of respecting the public, and most importantly self discipline. The leaders will even go as far as stoning lecturers’ cars, motorcade along the University Way and the Uhuru Highway as well as fighting the police officers who are always brought to intervene but ends up defending themselves as well. Surely are we leaders or heckler! Are we the intellects everyone would wish to emulate as their role-models or opportunists who have forgotten of their societies for greed of money!
"The villainy you taught me I will execute a d better the instructions" were the words of one motorist along the university way purported to be an CEO in one of the leading companies in the nation, whose care was vandalised and even deflected. We have a life to live as a student, a sibling to someone, a child to some parents, the future of the nation, a future parents to some children and a future spouse to someone and an employee to the motorists along the Uhuru Highway and The University Way. We are crashing our own destiny.
Let the wisest of all students and most importantly, students leaders capture this "A SUCCESSFUL MAN BECOME SUCCESSFUL NOT BECAUSE THEY DO DIFFERENT THINGS, BUT BECAUSE THEY DO THE SAME THINGS IN DIFFERENT WAYS"
