Kenyan musician weighed in on how leadership is being managed in Kenya today, where he claimed that a good number of politicians do misuse their position to benefit themselves.
Speaking in an interview in Citizen TV on Wednesday, Wainaina said that the act of politicians benefiting from the office they happen to hold has turned out to be normal and no one can be surprised about it.
"It has become normal for politicians to benefit from positions they were elected for " Eric Wainaina said
He believes that Kenyan leaders, benefit from making those that voted for them poorer by the day.
"Politicians benefit from keeping us poor," he added.
This conversation was triggered following King Kaka"s release of "Wajinga Nyinyi" describing how brutal our leadership has turned out to be and no one is doing something about it.
In the song, Kaka reiterated a number of scandals that Kenya has seen and how few individual shave been misappropriating the public funds. Wainaina claimed that politician are now benefiting from the position that they hold.
There has been a lot of corruption cases, some of it being the one that is facing the three governors; Governor Mike sonko, Ferdinand Waititu and Moses Kasaine who have been accused of mishandling public funds.