What Role Will Chris Murungaru Play In Kibaki's Re-election Bid?

Those who have met him will tell you that the burly Kieni MP is known to sweat a lot wherever he goes which is associated with his heavy drinking. But the truth is that at the moment Chris Murungaru is sitting pretty and poised to make a major contribution to the re-election bid of aging, ailing President Mwai Kibaki.
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In fact his leaving the cabinet has not had the effect on him that it had on his former cabinet colleague Kiraitu Murungi who took to writing poems that portrayed his loneliness and feelings of betrayal and being left out of things. The poems must have been really powerful because they tagged at the President's heart who recently reappointed him to the cabinet and took him straight back to his old ministry of energy. This was quite something coming from a president who is known for taking ages to make any decision.

Hon Murungaru has used the time in-between his court appearances and battles with the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission to build on his immense wealth, which he will do everything in his power to avoid declaring or explaining how it was acquired. So how did a minister who was dodging auctioneers shortly before the 2002 polls become so wealthy, so suddenly? Did he open a chain of pharmacies (Dr Murungaru is a pharmacist) countrywide and use his image as one of the leading personalities in the original Narc to promote it. Nope?

Like all rich folks in this part of the world, his sudden wealth is shrouded in mystery. He has of course been linked to the massive Anglo Leasing scandal, actually he was the minister incharge of security when somebody put his hand into the Treasury cookie jar and emerged with billions.

But even more disturbing is the real reason why Hon Murungaru was slapped with a Visa ban by Britain. It is said that British Intelligence has irrevocable evidence that he met with drug lords while in London and you can be sure that the minister was not purchasing a quick fix for himself, he prefers alcoholic beverages (see my other story on the Western intelligence system that spies on everybody).

It is with this kind of background information that this writer found it extremely amusing when the Kieni MP told reporters recently that the President was not responsible for his downfall and that therefore he (Murungaru) was going to pull all stops to campaign for his re-election. The really amusing part of the interview was that the former minister emphasized that he was going to use all his POLITICAL resources (as opposed to financial resources) to campaign for the president. What did he mean? What are political resources? Everybody knows that the minister has some cash stashed away somewhere (and it is not a couple of millions), why else would he be so eager not to have to explain his wealth?

So here we are in a situation where the president's re-election bid is going to be at least partly financed by cash whose origins is shrouded in mystery. That is totally beside the point in Kenya. What really matters is what tribe the candidate is in relation to that of the voter. But the even more ludicrous part of it all is that the same voters will start complaining loudly about the shortcomings of the same government they have elected into power only a few months later.

Sometimes I wonder whether there is really any hope for Kenya. Or are we all who read this blog with hope, just dreamers?

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