Freedoms of association, opinion and expression are major achievements in our 2010 constitution.
Unfortunately, the entire provisions have a strong weakness, there should be a provision for honest, truthful and genuine opinions.
Cord's Okoa Kenya initiative has hit headlines recently in the country.
The rejection of the signatures by the Independent Boundaries and Electoral Commission has ignited a spirited verbal diarrhoea among the proponents of the initiative.
Without any intention to analyse the nitty gritty of the composition of the ideologies of the Okoa Kenya, the idea failed in integrity test.
If the signatures provided by the commission are anything to go by, the people entrusted with the initiative were more or less comedians.
How do you Okoa Kenya with pig-like signatures? The seriousness of the initiative is humbled to the ground by such jokers.
Political survival banks on how persuasive one can be. If the electorate fails to fall for one's antics, the drawing board should be the next destination.
Civic education is a necessity in making all political milestones. The proponents of the initiative should have told their supporters on what was expected.
This would have saved their face from the critics. IEBC may be flawed as claimed to be but, with signatures similar to drawings, it takes no rocket science to come up with a conclusion.
Between the electoral commission, those who appended signatures and the proponents, who failed?