Managing change using the same old solutions that necessitated change

The current situation in our beloved country of Kenya is a change issue. The youth have gotten tired of how the older generation is running this county. They want change.

When a room gets cold, the change required is to warm the room, either by a heater or any other method that will raise the temperature, and if it continues getting colder, then the heat level is increased. This is one way to solve the problem. However, if the two variables keep changing, the action of adding heat continues, and vice versa, if the temperature becomes too hot and there is a need to cool the room, then heat is reduced.

Prohibiting actions or activities usually creates two problems where there initially was one. The court has prohibited the police from using tear gas on the protesters, now the likely thing to happen is the criminalization of the security forces, how else are they supposed to handle protesters, were they trained to handle protesters without the use of the gadgetry provided? The police don’t know any other way to handle protesters and now they are expected to overnight learn how to handle the protesters in a way they have not been directed to and are expected to figure out on their own. The court directive told security operatives what not to do and did not tell them what to do. Most likely the security operatives will resort to default which is the use of the very things they were prohibited from doing, the use of crowd control.

The current challenge that’s facing this country is the desire for change. Change can not be brought by the very elements that necessitate change. Putting the very group of people who got us where we are and expecting them to cause change is like throwing the problem to the problem, locking the room, and hoping in time it will be resolved. The team formed to negotiate is composed of 98% of the very group that caused the problem and 2% of those who see the need for change. The problem is being solved in the very manner the youth want to change, by forming bodies that use taxpayer's monies to try and identify a problem that is already stated. This change problem will not be solved by the group that caused it, the solution lies in the group that pointed it out. Trying to negotiate change is unknowingly or knowingly delaying the inevitable.

What needs to happen is the group desiring change providing the change they need, how it is to be done. Postponing change is like putting a grenade with the pin removed under the bed and hoping it will not explode since there are negotiations with the one who pulled the pin.

We have been a Taxpayer's money wasteful country; our politicians are corrupt and even we have made corruption a way of life and flaunt the fruits of corruption openly to the jobless and discontent majority. What this country needs to find is the reset button. If the reset button brings an end to the high allowances, the high salaries, and the unexplainable expenditures in Government it will be for the betterment of the country, we get a fresh start. A country that pays politicians more than its doctors is an unhealthy nation. A country where the leadership cares nothing about the citizens except for their votes is a dead nation. Are we dead or do we want to change for the future of this country's current occupants and those to come, our future Kenyans, and Taxpayers in waiting?