Jomo Kenyatta would definitely have been very upset at the current split in Kanu, which many see as the beginning of the end for Kenya's oldest political party.
After all it was Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president who led the party to an emphatic election victory over Ronald Ngala and Daniel Moi's Kadu in the very first Uhuru elections. It is the same grand old man of Africa who sent Martin Shikuku and the late Seroney to detention (without trial) for suggesting in the 70s that Kanu was dead. You can imagine what he would feel now that Kanu really looks like it is well on the way to the grave.
A conversation between the top leadership of Kanu and Kenyatta would have most likely gone like this;
Jomo Kenyatta: I can see you people are behaving like fools.
Katana Ngala: But mzee we have just saved the party from extinction. All officials including em… er… your son, sir, had all moved to ODM Kenya.
Jomo Kenyatta: So you think you have now saved the party?
Katana Ngala: Yes, your excellency.
Jomo Kenyatta: And so now you are going to win the general elections?
Katana Ngala: Yes, em… er… I mean NO your excellency. We are thinking of forming an alliance with Mwai Kibaki and…
Jomo Kenyatta: So you saved the party to do exactly what the other people who supposedly killed it were trying to do?
Katana Ngala: (Lost for words).
Jomo Kenyatta: And as for Mwai Kibaki, he was a brilliant Finance Minister. But being president of Kenya is a totally different thing. Why is it so difficult for Kanu to defeat him and win the general elections? If Moi, of all people did it, why can't you people do it?
Katana Ngala: Mzee, things are very different in the world since you were president.
Jomo Kenyatta: Are they now?
Katana Ngala: Yes, mzee.
Jomo Kenyatta: And they have changed so much that Kanu can no longer win elections?
Katana Ngala: Speechless.
Jomo Kenyatta: You Kadu people are vinyagarikas and totally hopeless (goes into abusive language and swears and utters abuses in the Kikuyu language as current Kanu top brass flees.
Conversation constructed and put together taking into careful consideration the character and past policies and decisions made by Kanu's and Kenya' first president and founding father, now deceased, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
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kenyatta did more harm than good... he could have been a Lee Kuan Yew but instead he pushed aside Achieng Oneko & derided Bildad Kaggia...
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, his hand or acquiescence in the brutal murders of Pio Gama Pinto, Tom Mboya & JM Kariuki...
Of course, he used kanu & the presidency to STEAL, ROB & MURDER...
I am glad kenyatta's kanu is dying... it has been a terrible curse on Kenya...
My opinions of Kenyatta are mired because my family has some minor relations with his so on one end I think of him as a hero, on the other I think he doesn't deserve all the praise of a founding father since he robbed the country blind. Either way my opinions don't change anything anyway since his reign is over.
ReplyDeleteI agree with coldtusker that Kenyatta's KANU is dying but I disagree that KANU in general is dying. This is because there still exists Moi's KANU which still rules this country - I believe Kibaki graduated with first class honors from the school of Moi under the Mugumo Tree that he himself described as hard to cut down.
We forget that there is Moi the man and Moi the institution. Many a man have flourished under that institution. These people will forever make sure that their sins are never exposed therefore they have set up structures that ensure one of their own remain in power or have some sort of control. That simply means that there are KANU thinkers across the board even the in NARC-K that purports to be about new leadership.