WHY RUTO WILL NEVER SEE THE PRESIDENCY SEAT...
When the son of Jomo rose to give arousing victory speech in March 2013, those who had watched his incredible run to the presidency were filled with disbelief. Indeed not long after, his Deputy William Ruto broke down and wept like a baby when it was confirmed beyond doubt that he, the self-confessed chicken seller and hussler, had risen to the second highest office in the land. I mean, how?
When both had separately announced their bid for office, everyone, including they, knew they were joking. Their two separate communities held a deep distrust, nay, hatred for each other and it was obvious that individually, they simply didn’t
have the numbers.
Worse, none had the singular clout to become what Moi used to call Rais wa Jamhuri ya Kenya.But most significant, Ocampo’s
infamous envelope hang in the air like a bad smell back in the day when the Argentinian prosecutor was regarded, falsely I must say, as a prosecutor of note and not the speech making Mututho he actually was. So by and large, their “We
will run for presidency”
had sounded like the sort of thing Cyrus Jirongo routinely does – lots of
bluster and hot air that petered out before it started.
That’s why no one
was surprised when Uhuru woke up one fine morning and threw his towel in the ring, saying he was not running for the confounded job after all, and that he was leaving it to Mudavadi. But like the master of turnarounds that he was to become in his presidency, the very next morning Uhuru woke up and said hell no, he was still in the race and that his quitting had been a bad joke caused by ‘demons’.
Today, one suspects he is still held hostage by those demons and that most mornings when he opens his favourite meat wrapper and sees scandal after scandal, he wishes he had just stayed put and not run for the presidency.
Why, he would be free to do the things free men do; sip something and enjoy his ka-quarter of roast meat at Dagoretti, without worrying about the latest scandal wafting out of his government. There is always the latest scandal, you know!First was the scandal of his ‘dream
cabinet’ which was put together and unveiled Obama style. But his corporate candidates whose CVs were pored over again turned out to nondescript and forgettable Ole Lenkus. Two out of three of his only solid Cabinet Secretaries with government secretaries have been swept away by the dark clouds of corruption. The rest are just there.
His bonhomie with DP William Ruto is now history, and as we speak, like an old restless couple, the pair no longer hold hands or wear matching shirts and ties.Indeed the general feeling within the Rift Valley is that
wamecheswaby the Mt Kenya wing of TNA. And heck, even the most optimistic don’t
believe that the mountain will come down for William Ruto in 2022.
The economy isn’t
going anywhere. The jobs aren’t
coming. The stadiums aren’t getting
built. The digital wave isn’t happening.
The only thing that seems to be happening is theft, grand theft.
Thieves keep popping up and crawling out of every government woodwork at such a scale that even
Uhuru’s army of
bloggers and spin doctors can’t
keep up! It must be such a strain on the man from Gatundu.
Sadly, being President, he cannot just stroll into his local at Dagoretti Corner and say, “Nipe Pilsner
baridi.
Eeh, ya kutoa lock!”
yet he so desperately needs to unlock the mess his once-touted digital government is in.
And amid all this impunity, graft and the wave from mount Kenya which won't sleep until they get one of their own succeed the son of Jomo Ruto will never leave to see the presidency seat.
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