A UNIQUE ELECTION: ELDERS WILL WATCH TODDLERS PLAY

By Kinyua Njeri
The oncoming MUSO elections will perhaps be the most unique and awkward too. It is an election that has been delayed since September last year when the Dean of Students ruled to fatten the tenure of the 26th SGC by adding them yet another academic year in office.
And though the elections were to be held between March and May this year, as per the Dean's decision, efforts by student-activists to have the word honoured seemed more fictious than real.

Again, this election will be unique in that it'll be amongst the few
that has been held with some groups in absentia. Half of the 1st
years, to whom the Assistant Secretary General's slot normally goes,will be out of session and this might see a 'very old' continuing student rise to the position.

As if that's not enough, this election will be meant to scrap out the
26th SGC, which has notoriously been branded as the longest serving SGC. I'd have wished to let you know how the directors have the pride of owning shops and emaciating the MUSO kitty, but I leave it for some other day.

It'll be an election to 'exit' Doghana's government, which will go
down as one of the most sterile SGC's MUSO has ever had. Though the academic calendar hit their efforts hard, they were expected to be better, if the oratoric and eloquent speeches they gave at the cross-fire is anything to go by.

Well, most important of all, the fact that 4th Years will not vie
during these elections makes it one of the most peculiar. My father (I don't know him even) once told me that when an elder sits at his stool under the family tree, he sees farther than a boy who's on top of the tree. I don't know how true the statement is, but the man 'was' thoughtful.

In these elections however, the elders will have to sit, relax and
watch 'toddlers' play.