MIKE SONKO IS MY KIND OF LEADER.

Hey, yo, wagwan Mike

Look back at the title. Yes, you are not dreaming, that's exactly what I wrote and I'll be telling you why in a few. Anyway, don't you just love this guys comical character? Especially considering the fact that he hardly misses out in the evening news nowdays, making our local TV stations turn into news as there top comedy broadcasts. We can hardly complain, this guy literally has a sense of humour, something the kind like, he doesn't really care what other people think, he does what he wants. And for you who thought that all he is all about just fun and laughter, well, try clamping his Subaru Forester and he'll trash your clamp like a piece of tissue paper. That's Gideon Mbuvi alias Mike Sonko for you, a member of parliament and arguably one of the richest men in Nairobi. Just for the thought of it, don't you even think he can buy all City Council askaris together with their clamps? The flamboyant swag, top cream I tell you.
In Kenya, such a character could often in the past pass for a matatu tout or local hood-thug, flash forward, it's is 2011, and here is an M.P who has upgraded the local gangstar swag to top class bling, making your homies and dawgs look like uniform clad SPLM rebels from somewhere in S.Sudan. Hillarious.

Anyway, real talk, and I want to be sensitive on this issue. Mind you, i do not support his current worrying behaviour, like breaking a clamp, actually I believe he deserves to face justice, a penalty that will atleast have an effect on his fat pocket. Neither do I support him for sprawling in the streets like an earthworm, and punching his blows into a wall, jumping over the gates and leading youth to burn and loot property. This certainly should not be the behaviour of a leader and moreso, a leader expected to be a role-model to the young generations. However, there's a glint to it, Mike Sonko is a breed of leader, something that this country needs, just that he executes his concerns and duties in the most barbaric mannerisms.
Let's take a closer look at this man. Forget all the talk you have heard about his involvement in Narcotics and so on and so forth, and you will realise that Mike Sonko has a quality in him that most leaders in Kenya lack. He is a kind of leader that has broken down from a level of being 'almighty' and unreachable and humbled himself to a level that his people can feel he is one of them. Most of our other leaders forget we are human like them, and exalt themselves into the levels of kings and deities. Which reminds me, back then in highscool, we had such kind of a leader, who even thought he was no longer a student. When we had a strike in 2008 and he went to address the assembly, he said, and I quote, "One of your greivances..." forgetting that he was actually one of us, and should have collectively been included in 'our' greivances. That's much like what kind of leaders we have in parliament today. There's a sparkle of difference in Sonko though. We all remember when he led the youth in protests on Jogoo road, the issue apparently was that the city council had illegaly destroyed kiosks in his constituency. Just assume you were one of those that had their kiosks torn down, wouldn't you feel honoured that your member of parliament is sharing in your pain? The only wrong thing he did was allow them o be violent and unruly. Commendable however, he felt so part of them! In my constituency, for example, the last time I saw my M.P was on his last campaign tour, since then, all the problems we've been facing, we have been doing so on our own. He never seems to care. All he does is carry his busting tummy to parliament for every session because that is where the rolling cameras are. Its a raw deal, and I would rather have an M.P who would literally punch a wall for me.
The kind of leaders we have in Kenya today are mere puppets of circumstances who pop out of the curtains to seductively 'solicit' and scrounge for the peoples votes. Who even knows what happens after their needs are met? If ou would criticise Sonko for demonstrating for the rights of his people, then I wonder what you would do to an M.P whose constituents are dying of hunger somewhere in North Eastern province while he/she is here trying to justify why he/she shouldn't pay tax. They don't ever seem to care.
I also wonder what it is sometimes Kenyans want, if they think its such an issue that because some M.P somewhere attended parliament in a stud. It seems all we care is what we see, and we never seem to realise that those that dress so appropriately tend to in more times than not sulk and slumber through al parliament procedings, unless of course they are fighting to keep their large salaries untouched. As much as the media was ready to capitalise on that incident to tarnish Sonko's  image and portray him a rogue parlamentarian, its such a pity, that dressing had to be the criteria. What so if he wore a stud? We dont send them there to wear smart for cameras, we send them there to fight for our rights and our needs. That's what should really matter.

Speaking of the media, I soley blame them, they have turned him into an irresponsible kind of guy. Like I admitted earlier, he surely has a problem with his attitude but he is not as evil as we often have been made to think. He, just like any other Kenyan, is certainly not above the law, and therefore issues like breaking council clamps should be penalised. Similarly, if parliament does not allow men to don studs, he should rightfully be kicked out. Otherwise, the media should let the man do his job, and if the people of Makadara feel he is not doing what they sent him to do at parliament, they can recall him under article 166 of the constitution.

Lets give the guy a break, he's tring to do his job, and before we make him look so evil lets apprecaite the fact that he is better than most of our M.Ps, atleast he cares. Instead, we should make him realise that there are better ways to advocate for his concerns and those of his people. Similarly, if he feels that he should address the concerns of his people don in a stud and locks, so be his wish, its a free world anyway, at the end of the day, all that matters is whether he carries out the duties the people of Makadara have bestowed on him.