Good legislations cannot be birthed through supremacy wars but by sobriety.
When Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo speaks, he does not only capture the attention of his constituents but the entire country. The is not only a polished lawyer with gleeful credentials, but a beaming legislature with great gift of the gab – ever exuding eloquence with temerity.
His record in the corridors of justice and in the chambers is unmatched. These traits have served to embolden the good lawyer to his own ego to appoint of spewing uncontrolled outbursts to the powers-that-be.
Amollo has stirred up the real hornet’s net that is ODM for his abrasive dress down lately, in one instance targeting his chairman John Mbadi.
The centre of this latest acrimony is based on some of the contentious issues in the BBI with the main one being the proposed 70 new constituencies. The prerogative of constituencies’ boundaries restructuring and naming of new ones is vested on IEBC as enshrined in the constitution.
Amollo seems to have belatedly seen the anomaly that is not sitting well with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, which needs to be protected by, among others, the proponents of BBI. But Amollo has been part of this process since its initiation.
While it is good to choose the uncomfortable truth over pleasant lies, it is important to be consistent and not play politics on matters that touch on citizens by virtue of being a document that would govern them. To some of us, the addition would not even be necessary because we feel encumbered with the ever ballooning wage bill.
If he could have picked the issue from the very beginning and pointed out the gapping mismatches, then he could have gained much admiration and more political mileage than now.
But for now, he could pass as a politician – not a professional – who is playing to the platitudes of political gallery to gain political supremacy and acclamation by the public.
Simon Bodo, via email
