If we are being honest, Iris Kaingu is not ready for public office.

This isn't even about her person. I have no doubt she's a lovely and likeable individual.

I just don't find anything in her that suggests an understanding of what the leadership she's aspiring to truly entails.

The few times she has ventured to let us into her ideas on governance, she's only succeeded in revealing a frightening ignorance of the issues.

Her sense of our political history and processes is sketchy, if not non-existent.

Iris is not Bowman Lusambo, which is why this saddens me.

She isn't cognitively deprived.

The only reason she would be that ignorant is that she hasn't placed enough importance on the job she seeks, to educate and prepare herself for it. This betrays a certain arrogance in her.