These made-up voter numbers will make jokes of our elections
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission workers arrange ballot material ahead of the final general election in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya, on August 7, 2022.
Some thirty years ago, I was in parliament, that single-party legislature that was trying very hard to shoehorn Tanzania into a multiparty dispensation hugger-mugger, because the party hacks of the CCM party were psychologically not prepared to accept what their founding father, Julius Nyerere, was telling them: Adopt or perish.
A few of us in that parliament seriously wanted genuine change, but we knew that we were in an infinite minority, that most of our colleagues, especially those in some positions which made them think they were in power, were just doing what was necessary to stay there, doing nothing to advance the cause of plural politics.
