Trio In Unison Widens Net Ropes In Fresh Faces

Future faces of generation youth Kenya have begun in earnest promoting change in the interests of young people.

All under 40s be warned: round hii si mchezo, and with that catchy slogan the youth of Kenya have been provided free with an older more experienced trio of youthful legislator Kiema Kilonzo, businessman Jimmy Kibaki and political activisit Tony Gachoka speaking their message in one voice; stop sleeping youth wake up you lack focus please

More fresh faces have been roped in including former langata constituency top seat contender Stanley Livondo and this is a good example of how generational inspiration is transferred-it's time for hawa youth to no longer use their energy as cheap political hirelings via rent-a-mob for Ksh 100/= per person at miracle campaign rallies

The Kazi Kwa Vijana initiative from the Prime Minister's office has been lonely in company and now has a friend in the form of this new national youth initiative outfit. Wherever your passion may fall you are well catered for in the youth forums coming your way soon across the country kicking off with Mutito constituency last weekend.hatu cheki na watu

Roping Fresh Faces
Stop sitting there at your computer laughing ask yourself what have you done for Kenya lately?paying taxes? get in line and leta ingine tena please nothing but charity. Youth are reminded stop being gullible stupid and chart your direction so you can play your role in future governance.

More fresh faces continue to be roped in to rally the clarion call and the line up will no doubt be longer and impressively age insensitive. Let the youth accept the safe guidance through to the next general elections in a non-partisan ageless style.its time they are mobilised and united and empowered and these are not just mere buzzwords or catchy sounding catch phrases.

Winning hearts of youth is no deceptive matter and no need to raise eyebrows concerning hidden political motives.its time for Kenyan youth to simama and experienced help is at hand- join it

Tom Mboya: Why Kenya Still Wants To Forget

Jomo Kenyatta and Tom Mboya in Gatundu (there is little doubt that Mboya is upset about something): If history is the truth then it must be re-written.


The second and final part of the annual Kumekucha Tom Mboya tribute 2009

It is easy for those who do not know the whole story to make rash judgments about something or somebody. Indeed what the comments to my previous Tom Mboya post have proved is that David Goldsworthy’s title for his Mboya biography (Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted To Forget) was just perfect. The Kenyatta government succeeded a great deal in making Kenyans forget Tom Mboya. It saddens me how the new generation drowning in tribal politics have no idea of how to analyze the man without the sickening Kikuyu/Luo thing.

Lets get a few things straight first.

The evil that the Kenyatta government did and the ones that are still being perpetuated by the Kibaki regime have nothing to do with tribe or even Kikuyu supremacy. It is simply my-turn-to-eat-politics (not the turn of a whole tribe but just a few chosen individuals). Nothing more. Do you know which tribe suffered most under the Kenyatta regime? The tribe that had farms snatched from them? It is NOT the Luo or any other tribe. It is the Kikuyu. Look at what happened after the 2007 elections. Who are the majority in IDP camps? Our dear Kikuyu brothers of course. I dare say no other tribe has suffered as much from Kenyan politics to date. Even the Luo are a distant second when it comes to sufferings as a result of politics. Have we all forgotten what happened to our Kikuyu brothers during Moi’s long reign in power? Have you talked to coffee farmers who had their livelihoods destroyed?

So I agree 1000 percent with the commentator who brought this out in my previous Mboya post. My big appeal to my fellow Kenyans is that it is now time for us to reach out to our Kikuyu brothers so that we may fight the political class with one voice—as Kenyans. Those clever, greedy leaders do not want us to do it of course and will always divide us along tribal lines.

Secondly I would like to say that Mboya’s great weakness and at the same time great strength was that once he had identified an enemy he would usually single-mindedly focus all his energy and thoughts on finishing off that enemy completely. The problem with this is that he would only re-analyze his position very late in the game when he had already done plenty of damage. The numerous constitutional amendments brought to parliament between 1964 and 1968 are a case in point. They destroyed Kenya in that they gave too much power to a corrupt presidency. But let’s look at them in context shall we.

In identifying the colonialists as the enemy Mboya came out with the call Uhuru sasa which man Kenyans at the time felt was very far fetched. The hot-headed young man in a big hurry in his element. But Mboya ended up being the chief architect in delivering that Uhuru far much sooner than anybody had thought possible.

One thing that really fascinates me and I try to emulate from Mboya’s life was this ability he had to think about a problem continuously even as he read voraciously and widely about other things. Time and again Mboya would make sure he had done all his homework before even a political encounter and would come up with an effective strategy. The Limuru incident in 1960 which led to the formation of KANU is very instructive in this regard. Odinga had planned to form a new national party that would leave out Mboya. He laid his plans well but Mboya did his homework and called in favours from powerful people within the nationalist movement like James Gichuru. What emerged was a national party called KANU where Mboya was more powerful than Odinga as secretary general. Interestingly this secretary general post has been held by many after Mboya who have never made use of it the way Mboya did. Mboya used it perfectly for his political scheming because secretary generals call meetings and do most of the administrative stuff.

When Kenya gained independence his enemy was KADU and their federal system of governing. Mboya felt sure that the only way Kenya would end up as one nation with politicians like Odinga senior around, was with a strong centralized government. Of course he made a lot of assumptions in reaching this conclusion. For instance he assumed that President Kenyatta was sincere in his nationalistic ideals. Don’t forget that Kenyatta was Mboya’s inspiration when he started out in politics in the mid 50s. Mboya could not believe that a man would spend so many years in the struggle and in prison for political reasons would still end up being the greedy selfish leader that Kenyatta was. Can you imagine Nelson Mandela being corrupt?

Indeed Mboya discovered the true Kenyatta when it was very late. When he had already dismantled Oginga Odinga with such finesse that the Kiambu mafia were even more worried about him. In fact Mboya started saying openly that big man politics had not worked out so well for Africa after all. A person who admits openly that they were wrong is a rare and unique person and if it is a leader then he has to be great in my book. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere of Tanzania admitted that his Ujamaa policies had failed to work in Tanzania.

It is important to know that another reason why Mboya hated Odinga senior so much was because of his tribally-based politics.

Tom Mboya had ambition and there is no doubt that he was going for the presidency. However in seeking the presidency it is very clear that his objectives would have been very different from what we have seen from the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki presidencies. Mboya achieved so much within such a short time. He was a powerful cabinet minister at the tender age of 28 for instance. What anybody would gather from this is that he aspired to much higher ideals than grabbing every available piece of fertile land that he would lay his eyes on. He had no tribal base around which to build a kitchen cabinet where the most powerful man has to be the one who comes from as near as possible in his village.

Mboya was NOT perfect. Indeed he was a serious womanizer and when his charm was not turned on the electorate it went to many different attractive women across the world. Still Mboya did not become so popular by accident. It is instructive that JM Kariuki’s own popularity climbed in leaps and bounds when he became the only Kikuyu to be allowed to attend the funeral of Mboya on Rusinga Island. If Mboya was able to see this from beyond the grave he would have hung his head in shame at how people turned his funeral into a tribal affair when he had fought all his life and died in the cause of nationalism and fighting what he called “negative tribalism”. He would have been sad that so many of his close Kikuyu friends were not able to pay their last respects because of the tribal monster that rose up.

Even today, ask folks who Kungu Karumba was. Or even who JM Kariuki was. With all due respect you will hear very little. Whenever I meet a person who was old enough in the 60s I always ask them if they could remember Mboya. Their reactions are always the same. Asians, Europeans, Africans, former Kadu diehards. Kikuyus, Giriamas, whatever tribe you care to think about. The whole lot usually react so similarly.

Their eyes light up and they start talking excitedly. They usually talk about a Kenyan leader who was different. A leader like no other they have seen since. A leader who put Kenya before their own personal interests. A man who had he lived would have taken care and made sure Kenya did not sink to where we are now.

Thanks TJ, let another like you come quickly.

Read more about the man called Ben Gethi

The Hague Express: One More Year of Impunity

ICC prosecutor Moreno Ocampo would faint from massive bear hugs from our politicians were he to visit Nairobi. Now that he has given them 12 months to politically exhale, they will engage top gear in plotting to defeat the same justice ICC has instructed them to institute. Welcome to coloured impunity made and practiced in Kenya.

The mayhem and near-Armageddon of last year sounds so far removed that the predictable apocalypse awaiting us in 2012 will make it look like a walk in the park. Make no mistake, a new constitution as shouted by all and sundry is no panacea to our bandit politics. Just drop any saint into the soup of Kenyan politics and s/he will emerge evil than Lucifer.

Our problem is not archaic laws but IMPUNITY from our rulers. To them Kenya has been and continues to be their estate and we owe them rent. They will rape and milk her till the last drop of blood. We are led by zombies who hide under delegation to as a disguise to give free hand to tribal looters.

All the cheap rants of hiding behind hollow sovereignty only succeeds in giving the rulers free pass to score all forms of fraudulent goals at our collective expense. We deride ICC as synonymous to neo-colonialism demanding equal treatment from US who are not signatories to Rome convention. At least they have working institutions and even the POTUS’ actions are limited to senate’s approval unlike our personalized RULERSHIP.

Chopping block
The bottom line is that we are paying the ultimate prize of democracy bastardized. The international community saved us from the last gunshots by the scoundrels. Only the ICC can guarantee objective blind application the law no matter how long it takes. Otherwise the 2007 rehearsal will produce unrivalled quality theatre of bloodbath come 2012.

Only in Kenya do we entertain fallacies of opposition rigging election. To us the shamelessness of security in deceptive numbers is superlative logic. We are victims of greed and the chronic lack of political is the beast waiting to consume us all. To the political hyenas, Kenyans are simply the collective collateral their carnivorous lifestyle.

Ocampo must better advised to prepare for massive disappointment. The kings of impunity will not foolishly place their heads on the chopping block. The faster the 12 months run out the better. Hague Express must leave the station soonest filled with the deserved passengers.

Could The Hague Be God's Answer To The Cry Of Kenyans?

I've been thinking about the Hague lately.

I'm one of those folks who my friend Mutahi Ngunyi has berated as hiding behind sovereignty when the nation is under the scrutinizing spotlight of the international community. Of course I've always resented the hypocritical stance of foreign institutions that have one set of riles for Africa and another for the West. As it were, nobody can tell me to date why Ocampo has not gone after the murderous neo-cons in the States while coming after our own murderers. Such double standards are why I support Africa's drive to hold the ICC accountable for how it does business. Indeed, if it can't handle its affairs impartially, Africa might as well walk away from it. We won't miss it.

That said, I hope that the ICC can get its act together and start coming after all world leaders who commit atrocities against their people. Starting with Bush and Rumsfeld, Mugabe and henchmen and on to our own folks here, it would send a powerful message if the world's only court of this importance is seen to act decisively against powerful individuals around the globe.

Coming to Kenya, it seems to me that the Hague may well turn out to be God's answer to the cry of Kenyans. For years Kenyans have been burdened by the unending rule of a few families. Indeed, the Kenyattas, Mois, Kibakis and a few others have made sure that only those who agree with their brand of politics can ever make it in this country. Land and property is owned by those who are in their with them on just about everything. This is wrong.

So how is the Hague God's answer?

You will ask me how I know this, but that I won't answer now. What I'll tell you for sure is that I know Uhuru, Saitoti, Ruto, Ali and a few other folks have their names in the Waki list. I also know for a fact that if this thing was pursued to its logical conclusion, it would romp in Kibaki and Raila. What I'm not clear about is to what extent the ICC is willing to gamble of Kenya's security by coming after the big two. Time will tell.

So my point is simple. By charging and successfully prosecuting Uhuru, Saitoti, Ali and then coming after the big two, God will have used the Hague to cleanse this land. He'll have given us a chance to begin afresh.

But do we believe in Him?

Why Was Mboya’s Assassination So Significant?

Tom Mboya: The man the rich political class in Kenya want to forget

Shocking New Revelations In Cold Case That Kumekucha Won’t Let Go

The date today is July 5th (at least in Kenya as I write this). Ever since I started this blog, I have always remembered this date and more specifically what happened on a day like this in 1969. It is the day Tom Mboya was shot dead.

Mostly my annual memorials have been a lonely crusade. But not this year. Yesterday and today Kenya’s leading daily, The Nation has carried extensive coverage on the assassination of the man I consider to be the greatest politician to ever come out of a Kenyan woman’s womb.

I interpret that to mean that finally more and more Kenyans have come to the realization that this assassination was significant and that if the country is to move forward and truly have a new beginning then we must face the ghosts of Tom Mboya and settle this thing once and for all. More so because the chief planner and executor at the centre of that assassination still lives.

Why was Mboya’s assassination so significant? Simply because the two bullets that were fired that Saturday lunch time July 5th 1969 changed the course of Kenya forever. Today we are suffering the consequences of that new course that was clearly charted out that day. Impunity won that day. Years later the rhetorical questions were to be asked over and over again; Mboya was killed and nothing happened, who is so and so? We survived the Mboya assassination what crisis can we not survive?

Tribal politics won that day. In killing Mboya the assassins killed nationalism. To date we are yet to see another Kenyan attracting national popularity in their own right enough to win a presidential poll with votes from every corner of the republic. Every single prominent politician now has their political base in their ancestral village and those who don’t have imported their fellow tribesmates in large numbers into the constituency they represent away form their village. Tom Mboya was a Luo who was time and again voted in by mostly Kikuyus even when other prominent Kikuyus from very prominent families stood against him. To a young Kenyan who understands Kenyan politics today, this statement seems like pure fiction.

I want to say today that most analysts agree that Tom Mboya was on course to end up as the first president of Kenya. A man called Jaramogi Oginga Odinga noted this fact early and decided that he would do everything in his power to make sure that this did not happen. And so he started a crusade insisting that Kenyans did NOT want Uhuru unless Kenyatta was released. In fact Odinga said that Kenyatta was “like a god to Kenyans. This clever ploy put Mboya in a tight corner. Knowing his constituents he knew that if he failed to support this belated call his support would evaporate. And so the old man who had been so out of touch with what was happening was released from Kapenguria and Oginga Odinga won the day while Kenya and nationalism lost badly. The Brits also won big time (more on that later).

It has now been revealed that a few weeks before the assassination of one Pio Gama Pinto, Tom Mboya warned the politician that he was going to be killed by Kenyatta’s inner circle (the same people who murdered Mboya). This is instructive and demonstrates the fact that Mboya’s intelligence sources were impeccable. We also know that Mboya knew his life was in danger. Indeed his biographer tells us that his American friends warned him and discussed the possibility of getting more body guards (which Mboya turned down). In fact on the day Mboya was killed, he had just released his driver and bodyguard. Why? Was he not concerned about his own life? He had warned Pinto that the Kenyatta inner circle was capable of murder and Pinto had doubted saying that his killing would cause serious problems for the Kenyatta administration. In other words “they wouldn’t dare.” Is this what Mboya thought about his own possible assassination? We can only speculate but the truth is that this is a question that badly begs for an answer.

It is also instructive to note that warnings of assassination came to Mboya from the Americans. This adds an International angle to the plot. Which major world power had a motive for Mboya’s death? Which country benefited most with Mboya out of the way? Britain of course. I have come across many interesting facts that point to MI5 links in the assassination of Tom Mboya. Indeed it would seem that Kenyatta’s inner circle got encouragement to proceed with their heinous plan from the Brits (unofficially of course).

In planning Tom Mboya’s assassination the plotters were keenly aware that this was one hit that could NOT go wrong. The Kenyatta administration and everything they were fighting for (in terms of personal gain) could not afford any slip ups. It would have been a disaster for them if Tom Mboya survived. The plotters already had the experience of carrying out the Pio Gama assassination over 4 years earlier and knew that many things can and do go wrong in the best planned assassinations. So they had to choose the gunman very carefully. There was no way they could afford him getting cold feet or worse still, missing his target.

I can authoritatively report today that there is increasing evidence that I am coming across that suggests the unbelievable. That apart from being the chief planner and operations man in the killing of Mboya, a certain man well known in the security forces at the time may have been the man who coolly pulled the trigger and fired those two shots that change Kenya forever. This man had a striking resemblance to Nahashon Njenga (the man who was convicted of Mboya’s assassination). That man remained an “untouchable” throughout the reign of Kenyatta. That man’s name is Ben Gethi (now deceased). I have talked to several people who confirm that in his last days Gethi's consceince seemed to have been disturbing him greatly. He drunk way too much and seemed to be haunted by the things he had done in his savage and eventful life (including overseeing the cutting off of certain sensitive parts of JM Kariuki's body).

In Pio Gama Pinto’s assassination word got out about the taxi driver who had been hired to carry out the hit. Nothing of the sort happened in the Mboya assassination and it is no accident. Little wonder that the Nation told us yesterday that then Vice President Daniel arap Moi described the Mboya assassination as “brilliantly planned and executed.”

Eye witnesses say that there was a bald-headed man with a brief case who looked like he was window shopping moments before Mboya was shot. Naturally the brief case concealed the murder weapon. Now just think about it for a moment. It is possible but unlikely that that man was a Kanu youth winger with little or no previous training in firearms. It is hard for me to believe that that youth winger coolly pulled out his revolver at just the right time and with precise timing shot the Minister just as he walked out of Chaani’s chemist. In fact the door was not fully open when the shots rang out because Mboya fell back inside the chemist’s shop. Now the fascinating thing here is that both Nahashon Njenga and Ben Gethi were approximately the same height. The resemblance of the two was uncanny.

The truth is that there were two very well planned phases of the Mboya assassination. That is the actual hit and the cover up that was to follow. Both were carried out clinically. With the clinical precision of a doctor... a surgeon perhaps?

...To Be Continued

Gaddafi Expands Ego, Ropes in Fellow Rulers

Sovereignty must be a battle cry for scoundrels. So African rulers are consorting on continental impunity under the able tutelage of Leader Muammar Gaddafi? The next few days will see the African continental air suffocating from the hollow rallying call of independence and non-interference.

Our rulers are only fooling themselves. Their selfish acts and personalized RULERSHIP only succeeds in providing the much needed cannon fodder to imperialists who are the custodians of their wealth stashed abroad. With one hand they wax patriotic beating anti western drums oblivious of the fact that all their loot is banked out there. What is more, at the signs of flu, they catch the next flight to those same western capitals for specialized treatment.

Gaddafi must be laughing himself silly for congregating dinosaurs and dictators whose only common denominator is pure IMPUNITY. It couldn’t have come at a better time after Gaddafi has taken the shameful mantle from one dwarf Omar Bongo as the longest serving ruler in the world. Other octogenarians must be salivating with envy of him in Sirte. Gaddafi is simply buying loyalty with petro-dollars and greedy scoundrels are more than willing to play ball.

The Hague express
Gaddafi’s ego is expanded the more secure in the knowledge that he is offering many outlaws the holiday to spend their taxpayers’ money. From Bashir to Mugabe, their flights outside their borders are limited to like-minded dictators and murderous. No wonder they are all gleefully ready to sign Gaddafi’s anti ICC communique.

Well, they can run from Cairo to Cape Town but they cannot hide from the ghosts of Hague Express. The diligent Chief Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo will dutifully strike when time comes whether they are in office of dead.

It is only a matter of time and no amount of security in numbers gimmick packaged as African solidarity will wash. The Hague Express is one unstoppable juggernaut that once it departs from the station no pedigree in family name will stop it.

Do Those Who Call The Shots In Nairobi Know Enough About Somalia?

I lived in Garissa for a while. I didn’t like it then. Boring town with hardly any entertainment to speak of and the heat and humidity is always crazy. But looking back now, it was a good experience. I learnt a lot. That experience comes in very handy today as I write about our Somali brothers. I seem to know them a lot more than most Kenyans do.

Indeed when the Clinton administration sent in troops to Somalia in the early 1990s, I laughed to myself, knowing full well what was going to happen next. What fascinates me greatly right now is how Kenyans are displaying the same ignorance on the Somalis that I saw in the Clinton administration.

It is true that Somalis don’t look too intelligent and in my view that is one of their greatest strengths. People always greatly underestimate and underrate them.

As you must know, if you are a regular reader here, I love to tell stories and I am going to tell you two today starting with what happened when I was in Garissa in the 1980s.

One day at about 8 pm loud sirens suddenly went off in the town. I panicked. What did they mean? I was quickly informed that there was a security emergency in the town. I later learnt that there had been a shooting incident in a bar in town where scores of people had been killed. This incident was never reported in the media. Later I learnt exactly what had happened.

A Somali man had earlier been arrested with Elephant tusks. The police were keen to get information from him, especially where he had stashed the cash for his illegal activities. When you want a man to talk, there is a particular area of his body that you press and they are bound to start singing like a bird. Well, this Somali man did not “sing” and the overenthusiastic cops are said to have completely disabled the man’s ability to ever sleep with a woman again. Later, the man managed to escape. He crossed the border into Somalia and came back with an automatic weapon and bullets wrapped across both his shoulders. Now the policemen responsible were having a quiet drink in this bar in Garissa town. The Somali man walked in and sprayed the table where they were seated with bullets, killing most of them instantly. He casually walked out of the bar and disappeared into the night.

I was told that no policeman would have dared follow the man into the darkness and the Kenya army, who have a presence in Garissa, were called in. Months later when the man was finally captured it was hard to believe that this one, small, wiry, thin man who did not look so clever had single-handedly caused so much damage.

One of the things about the dry arid North Eastern province is that it is extremely hot and humid. A Somali man has no problem crossing large tracts of the region on foot having taking only a single glass of water for the day. When you think about this simple fact you quickly realize that the odds would already be greatly stacked against Kenyan troops in the event of a war with Somalis to protect Kenyan terrain.

Story number two coming up. When I was a very young child (about 5 years old) we lived in Isiolo. This was in the late 60s. I still remember the house we lived in and the fact that sometimes in the evenings you would see the silhouette of an Elephant in the distance as the sun was setting. Very romantic I guess and one of the few benefits of being the son of a cop who regularly gets hauled all over the country and sometimes to the most arid and remote corners. One day we almost died. A fierce exchange of gun fire between some Somali Shifta warriors and the Kenya Army (the Shifta war was still very much on) ensued and spread into our compound at about 7pm. My dad had gone for his usual evening beer and he ended up not being able to make it back that night because his house had been transformed into a war zone. Loud gunfire echoed all around the compound. My mother took me and my kid brother and we all hid inside a cupboard where we spent the night. I remember my kid brother vomited inside the cupboard because of the fear he felt. But he did much better than some civilians at a nearby bar some of whom urinated on their trousers in fear (I kid you not). I think I was more excited than frightened. When I woke up in the morning it was all quiet.

Make no mistake about it, Somalis are the most shrewd entrepreneurs you will find anywhere and being an entrepreneur has got nothing to do with speaking good English. Typically you will observe a Somali man waking up very early in the morning and switching on their radio. They will then proceed to sip down their morning beverage while chewing Miraa (khat). You can be sure that the guy is not idling or trying to wake up properly like the rest of us would be doing. He is thinking and trying to roll the whole day ahead in his mind. In many instances he will come up with business ideas and deals that he may want to start implementing as soon as his active day starts. This is a habit I would love to emulate (without having to chew anything).

I can tell you scores of stories about these fascinating brothers of ours but I have to stop there.

As I sit here I worry that folks in decision-making positions in Nairobi may not know enough about our dear brothers. I fear that some of them typically display the same ignorance I have seen in many comments on my previous post on this topic. I will say no more about this seemingly hot topic.

P.S. I have read the comments accusing me of being an alarmist for nothing over our Somali brothers. Let me say that NOT all Somalis are involved in crime and NOT all of them are a threat to the security of our motherland. I know a number of who are good people and may get badly hurt reading my posts and knowing that I am the one who penned them. Sorry guys. However one has to get alarmed knowing what Kumekucha readers now know from my two posts. Especially when suicide bombers start popping up next door and a man buying land in the city centre suddenly and casually comes up with Kenya shillings 100 million.

My point is that there are enough bad Somalis hanging around to make Kenya disappear. May I also add that it hurts… and hurts real bad, when you host somebody for years and then they later turn round and threaten you. To me this is a clear illustration of the psyche in most bad Somalis. They will smile and kiss you shortly before plunging a knife deep into your back and twisting it. Every Somali with good intentions should join Kenyans in condemning this terrible habit.

Okay I will say no more now… for real.

Muthaura Flown to SA, Still Working from ICU

Hitherto energetic and never-tiring Head of Public Service Francis Muthaura has been flown to South Africa for further treatment. His doctors could not take chances after confirming that arteries in and out of his heart are THINNING. Such calcification is sure recipe for massive stroke. In fact the government has gambled with PS of all PSs, he should have been flown to London.

At least our sensational media can now rest easy after their object of hate and speculation has been relocated to Johannesburg. But Muthaura’s hospitalization leaves a gaping hole that can plunge Kenya into deep administrative problems. For starters he has no deputy and has been competently running this country single handed albeit chronically partisan.

But we must take heart from Dr. Mutua’s assurance that Mzee Muthaura will be back behind his desk in less than two weeks. We have no cause to doubt Alfred, he must know better, after all he is a doctor, isn’t he? In any case he never suffers whiners lightly no matter the might whether junior senator of Illinois or not.

Kenya cannot do without the veteran PS Muthaura. His work rate is phenomenon and above all unrivalled. What is more, even in the face of calamity, the good old man can at least afford a half grin, nay smile, for the first time even if on a stretcher. The old man can take just so much pressure after more than 10 years no leave.

Massive stroke
Heading civil service is a 24 hour duty while politicians snore in parliament. Muthaura’s energy is incredible. With no deputy, he was still working from his HDU bed. Kenyan media must also learn to respect the office of government spokesman. Our penchant to distrust official channels only succeeds in feeding destructive rumours.

In the meantime we must collectively wish the good ambassador well as he confronts his own mortality. Who knows, may be this scare would offer him the opportunity to contemplate the highly partisan and polarizing role he has played in the grand coalition in addition to toxic politicization of the civil service.

Hopefully the NDE and scent from ICU next door will transform him into a better man. God bless the unofficial emperor.