With such mandate, why bother about court orders?

In a democracy, the party that wins power strives to deliver on its election promises because that is the only guarantee that the people will extend its mandate.

That’s why we may be unfair to this regime on the housing levy. No one elected the judges and they have no right to stop the President from delivering affordable housing.

It is the President who was given the power by the people and even though he swore to protect the Constitution, the power the people gave him means he can go against it in the interest of the people.

The vacation of stay orders should not stop the President and his team from collecting the housing levy.
Is it not noble to build houses for the many homeless Kenyans who braved the cold morning on that second Tuesday of August 2022 to vote for this government?

Stopping the housing levy whether by courts or political means is not fair to these Kenyans.
Haven’t we seen how everywhere the President goes these days, thousands of Kenyans come out to celebrate his benevolence in pushing for cheap houses for them?

In Trans Nzoia, the other day, a mammoth crowd came out to voice their support for the regime’s projects.

In Nakuru and Meru, we have seen Kenyans celebrate this regime. In fact, in Meru, it was ‘celebration’ beyond what we have seen before, they did not even want to hear the President.

They were deep in their joyous stupor to even care about the threats of being reported to a higher being for over celebration.

This regime has the people behind it and with that comes the right to defy court orders or public interests.

Why would the President obey court orders when hustlers are in a long queue with their millions waiting to buy cheap houses? Salaried Kenyans who “own many homes” have no problem paying the housing levy because hustlers need to buy them.

Why are we quick to forget that the President has risen from a chicken seller to the top office in the land? He is the ultimate embodiment of hope and the rise of the hustlers.

He has what it takes to get the hustlers to the top and it is only fair that the courts pave way for him.
The naysayers will say the houses are too expensive for the hustlers. But the reality is that they have a leadership that has created jobs for them in Germany, Saudi Arabia, Canada and all over.

Remittances from this exported workforce has brought down the exchange rate and strengthened the Kenyan shilling. These folks, whose employment has been secured in foreign countries cannot wait for the completion of the affordable houses.

They want to buy, and the courts should not be an impediment. As the kazi ya mjengo folks will be going to the sites, boda boda riders will have people to carry to work, mama mboga will cook and take food to the sites and they will all have access to the hustlers’ fund and build their credit to the point of buying the affordable houses.

It’s pretty simple math and if you don’t get it, then have a sit down with DP Riggy G. He’s got a way of making it simple and understandable.

Well, he may be facing his own challenges with the rise one Ndindi Nyoro, but I guess he’s so intentional about the President’s agenda that he will explain in detail how mama mboga and watu ya chini will make enough money to afford the houses built by taxpayers’ money, on public land and going for market rate prices.

— The writer is a PhD candidate in political communication