REAL POLITICOS
How conveniently people forget! Prof Kivutha Kibwana says opposition leaders lack ideas and thus resort to the streets. He forgets he organised street demos in the 1990s under the NCEC banner. Was he, too, short of ideas? Uncle Moody Awori wails about the atrocities Kanu meted on Ken Matiba. Then, he was a loyal assistant minister when Matiba was taken to detention.
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The think tank that nominated the wildebeeste migration in the Mara as the seventh wonder of the world should now come up with a system of voting for the blunders of the world. The panel should not be in any difficulty voting American invasion of Iraq as one of the world’s blunders. ****
This is coup season. If Total Man organised one against Uhuru Kenyatta and Soita Shitanda against Musikari Kombo, the son of Mama Ngina is set to institute one against the Big Man in the House on the Hill and topple this Government. Good luck! And where is Charles Keter, the MP for Belgut, whose Keter Bill to clip the President’s wings used to cause growth of goose pimples in some quarters?
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MPs will become a common feature at university graduation ceremonies if those enrolled in parallel programmes are anything to go by. The man from Kanduyi Wafula Wamunyinyi was capped this week with a degree in psychology. Finance Assistant minister and Gatanga MP Peter Kenneth is in the law class. He will not only be an honourable member, but also a learned friend.
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The phenomenon of retired Presidents is a fairly new tradition in Africa and it never ceases to cause ripples. In Namibia, police ordered President Hifikepunye Pohamba’s motorcade to give way to his predecessor, Sam Nujoma. Pohamba obliged and his vehicles joined a queue of other cars and waited patiently as the founding president passed by. Police knew of Nujoma’s trip and not Pohamba’s!
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And finally …
ODM-Kenya met African envoys, including from Zimbabwe and Zambia. The lessons on democracy and how to handle street demos must have been illuminating. And was that Yvonne Wamalwa in attendance?
