One of the serious collateral repercussions of our type of politics is that the average person loses the ability to tell WHAT GOVERNMENT IS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. You know - the purpose of government. Here is a question I got recently from a voter after they learnt that am a candidate for Governor. "Am a Kiambu voter. My question to you is, what are your ongoing ground personal projects"? I said: Am sorry, what do you mean? Response: "Are you waiting to be voted to start delivering or you have started delivery before being voted in"? The person asking this question means well. They are wondering if the candidate understands HOW to win votes. At least the way it has been done before. But that question also tells you what is rotten with our politics. A candidate is a walking ATM. They are expected to use their personal funds to fix what our corrupt politicians have neglected. To fix years of theft and corruption. If that is the standard, and if this is how we will continue to conduct ourselves around politics - we are doomed. Let's not kid ourselves. We are done. I tell people when I meet them - I am not here to bribe anyone into a vote. If you want change, please be that change. Start by saying: I am not going to ask a candidate for office to do what the thieves we have elected have failed to do, DESPITE YEARS OF OPPORTUNITY, AND TRILLIONS OF SHILLINGS.