Martha Karua Now Calls Paul Muite A Traitor

Leading government figures have now started showing their true colors as political temperatures in the country continue to rise.

Constitutional Affairs Cabinet Minister Martha Karua called Paul Muite a traitor over the weekend.

Now that in itself speaks volumes. Why would Hon Karua refer to Muite as a traitor? It is clear that what she meant was that Muite is fighting for minimum reforms and yet he belongs to the Kikuyu tribe. That is the reason why he is a traitor, in the eyes of the government that she represents.

But there was still another even more disturbing utterance that Karua made over the weekend. She said that whatever reforms that parliamentarians agree on, will have to be subjected to yet another referendum. This is a new demand by the government side and it is clear that the intention is to throw a spanner in the works and make minimum reforms even more difficult.

As we have repeatedly said in this blog, this government is bound to do everything it can possibly do to avoid any reforms before the polls. There are many reasons but the chief one is that some of the cheeky reforms being proposed by the likes of Paul Muite is that the president must garner at least 50 percent of the votes cast plus one to be declared the winner. This throws into disarray the carefully laid plans for re-election that the President's think tank has already put in place. The plan heavily leans on the massive Kikuyu vote plus the Mount Kenya region support Kibaki has always enjoyed to win a slim majority that will be enough to see Kibaki back at State House.

The government's increasing impatience with the reformists was clearly illustrated by Martha Karua's punching Muite under the belt with some snide remark about his management of the constituency development find CDF. This naturally angered Muite who feels that the Kabete constituency has one of the best-managed CDFs in the country.

Fascinatingly it seems that the new demand from the government side has been met by another new demand from the opposition side. Raila Odinga now says that unless IDs are issued to youths eligible to vote, they will make sure that there are no elections. Again it is increasingly clear that the government has all along been dragging its' feet over the ID issue claiming that materials were out of stock. In fact ID materials have now been out of stock for well over a year. This clearly points to the fact that the ID issue must have something to do with the government's well-laid and finalized re-election arithmetic.

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