SECESSION TALK

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A member of the august house, Mr. Kaluma has drafted a bill seeking the secession of 40 counties. This will form, best known to him, Peoples Republic of Kenya. It comes at a time when the media is at its best in keeping to life McCombs and Shaw’s Agenda Setting theory (1993).

The secession talk has had comparatively less talk than Githeriman ; the man who united Kenyans during electioneering period for only not giving a hoot to all and sundry and having his githeri while queuing. Indeed a “hero” he is.

Secession talk is a serious talk; it is a talk of divorce, talk of termination of our nationhood  bonds. Most of my peers; comrades are overshadowed by the ongoing lectures strike; a serious issue too .I guess only a handful are aware of the move to divide Kenya for good cause or bad cause. Being a generation that heavily relies on the media to feed us information without fact checking, it is not within my jurisdiction to castigate anyone for their ignorance.

The modern lad particularly Moi University undergraduate students are usually kept abreast of the European league matches .Especially the English premier League and the Spanish LaLiga. To add to it they are quite aware of the Catalan talks of secession from Spain. Note that they are not Citizens of Catalonia neither do they subscribe to the privileges and rights enjoyed by the Spanish citizens. Sadly is that same varsity lads are not aware of the move to have Kenya go the Catalan way.

Mr. Kaluma already has the green light from the Electoral Body to present his bill via collecting one million signatures   of those in his support or either through parliament, which seems quite a big ordeal owing to the tyranny of numbers monster in the august house. What if either way sees the light of the day and the president is tasked to ask the electoral body to call for a referendum?

One thing, most students have not made informed decisions about secession. The students have to engage on the secession issue deeply. Most students would rather view the secession as a hindrance to their studies and long forged friendship in campus; the booze ties, the class ties, blood ties, romance ties. They see it as thing that would ruin their successful careers after so much effort in their academic work. Although some may blindly be swayed by the political currents to support or ignore the secession idea .It is good practice to engage objectively in such matters regardless of one’s’ social status. The media should not be left to tell you what to think and how to think.

Would you rather participate in the “eyewitness” challenge? Or engage your peer objectively on the secession talk? Enlighten people on why you want or don’t want secession, if not condole with kinsmen from Nyeri who lost their Governor instead of making a mockery of their deceased by taking part in that eyewitness challenge.