Eddie Butita OGW@eddiebutita
There is life beyond politics.
We cannot live in a permanent political circus, recycling outrage, allegiance, and division every single day. Politics alone will never fix anything not when we refuse to fix ourselves, our systems, and our understanding.
Let’s be honest: we are not electing strangers from another planet. We are electing ourselves. A politician in this country is a true reflection of a Kenyan with power and money.
Every election cycle, we convince ourselves that a new group of “good” leaders will save us. Then, within months, we return to the same conversations, the same frustrations, and begin preparing to replace them again. It is an endless loop of expectation and disappointment.
Why?
Because we are addicted to personalities instead of systems.
We rarely take time to understand how governance actually works how policies are made, how budgets are allocated, how accountability should function. Instead, we obsess over who supports who, who is winning, who is losing.
That is not democracy. That is distraction.
A broken democracy does not fix itself through louder debates or new faces. It is repaired through informed citizens, strong systems, and consistent accountability.
If we remain trapped in this shallow, personality-driven politics, nothing will ever change no matter how many elections we hold, or how many leaders we replace.
The real question is not who we elect next.
It is whether we are finally ready to think, act, and demand better beyond politics.
