The Zimbabwe showdown has over-shadowed the Kenyan election stunts as if African nations are competing one another in a share of world news,apparently for a wrong reason.Nevertheless its neither the first nor(unfortunately)the last.It leaves common men in whole of Africa to wonder what it means by the announcement of a general election coming around the corner.Optimism,right to exercise universal franchise is replaced by anxiety and fear with many opting that if it was possible for a time machine to carry them over the election period and bring them to the aftermath(for the good or for the bad)it will be a fair deal than being part of the exercise.
What has been wanting for the many African nations is the fact its institutions have failed to play their roles the way that they are expected to have.Forget about democarcy.Democracy is a sham in areas where it has not been guaranteed a right to survival.Many Asian nations do not preach democracy but their sysyatems have enabled the welfare of its people to be nurtured nevertheless.The systems for this matter includes the top three-Judiciary,Executive and Legislative.The three have to work in harmony and independent.But at the same time the safeguards have to be enshrined in the constitution for it to work out.
Zimbabwe's MDC might be having a majority in parliament.It should be executing its mandate to watch over the excess of Mugabe's Executive.But it does not have the teeth.The judiciary is the reverse of everything altogether.Its a total arm of the executive.Nothing can be executed by it if it does not obtain the mandate from the executive.This is the modus operandi of most African nations.And this is what is dragging us two steps back while we are making a single step forward.
Maybe we should be ready to emulate the Amrecan system whereby the cabinet ministers should be the state secretaries who are proffesionals for that ministry to run the affairs proffesionaly instead of politically.The legislative to run its affairs without the influence of the executive and so the Judiaciary.This will be a bew dawn for the African nations.
GOD BLESS AFRICA.
