Politics and development go together- Prof Oyugi

Is doing nothing when many things are going wrong not treason itself?

President Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of Untied States once said “…to announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

Those who are telling you that time of politics is over and that we are now on a development mode are abusing our intelligence.

There is no development without politics and politics is useless if it does not produce development. And development is a material condition underlying a progressive consciousness.

We must be part of both at all times and we must not abandon any of both to done by somebody for us.

(The writer is a petitioner on the ongoing Migori County governors election. He was the ODM candidate in last elections.)