My friends, I hear you.
But let me remind you if I may:
1. The price to be paid here is nothing compared to what we pay already, through theft, mismanagement and other chicanery. At least now we might get some peace and quiet in addition.
2. If chaos comes nobody get to chose the price to pay for peace. You pay what is demanded. Kenya has approached this precipice several times already. If bribing our ravenous politicians (as indeed this is what it is) is what will guarantee our children and grand children get to have a life in Kenya, I say why not?
3. This kind of fix is not new, not even for Kenya. We had it after 2007. Unfortunately, in the excitement of Katiba crafting, we lost the principle lesson of that painful period, to wit:
"It is not about democracy. It is not even about justice. It is about 'eat and let eat." Kizungu ingine wachia NGO.
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)