God had chosen, they spewed venom on the campaign trail and retreated to churches to have it reaffirmed that theirs was the right path.
Only the president seemed to understand what Christ meant by not bothering to stand up to an evil person and further stating that if a man should smite you on the cheek give him the other too. The meek inheriting the earth was derisory parody to the anointed.
They proceeded to win the election and it didn’ t fail to raise a few eyebrows that a sitting president’ s candidate, with the state machinery behind him, would be trounced by his vice president. It was stupendous and the Mrima and the church appeared vindicated.
The vituperous and vindictive nature of the new administration began on the day of inauguration and did not abate as the proverbial one hundred days came and passed while they continued to blame the past regime for all the real and imagined ills they faced.
Soon Kenyans learned that there was a new company incorporated to run the country and that it had specific shareholders, and the directors on the board were getting impatient that the loot from the grand larceny that was now afoot was not being shared as agreed.
It then became increasingly clear that all was not well and that there was trouble in paradise. Plans were underway to isolate the man from Wamunyoro, who as the vice president was attached to the president at the hip, or so Kenyans thought.
The current president, made from a difference metal from the former, was not in a mood to tolerate the shenanigans of his deputy like he was tolerated when he was in open defiance against his erstwhile boss who was now in happy retirement.
Zakayo, as the president had by now started to acquire a string of unflattering monikers that described various aspects of his ineptitude was soon busy planning and executing a well-orchestrated impeachment of his deputy which did not pass muster but still succeeded.
The man from Sugoi pulled off an astounding political coup but apparently, he had forgotten the great dictum that what God or was it Satan has put together let no man put asunder. He had severed the hand that had handed him the presidency.
The fall out was swift and bitter
Kenya seems to have perfected marriages of convenience where allies become foes and rivals become partners. The final walk of shame may take place when the Mrima realizes that they may need Baba if the current chant‘ Ruto must go’ is to be actualized.
accompanied by much wailing and gnashing of teeth with a deep sense of betrayal. The Mrima people who have somehow felt entitled to the Kenyan seat of power had been played by a canny and astute trickster.
For the man from Wamunyoro it was the ultimate embarrassment as he had enthusiastically delivered his people into the lion’ s mouth and now, he and his political allies were being purged from a government in which they believed they were principal shareholders.
If there was ever an example of falls that take place after pride, this was it and the man from Wamunyoro’ s walk of shame back to his people to seek redemption was demeaning. His attempts to reach out to the son of Jomo to apologize went unheeded.
In a spate of heart wrenching regret, he publicly apologized to the former president’ s family and especially his mother who he had un-culturally castigated and insulted apart from having organized the infamous raid on their sheep farm.
For the people of Mrima, their bluster and confidence as king makers had been fatally punctured and with downcast eyes they did not and still don’ t know how they will make amends with the rest of Kenya for their monumental miscalculation.
The president, to the amazement of many had cobbled together the most incompetent set of cabinet secretaries and although he had made a raft of public appointments the government machinery was at a standstill.
The man from Wamunyoro was to later inform us that the government was actually being run as a one man show, Kasongo, with the help of a kitchen cabinet of largely illiterate cronies who have for years been his henchmen and spanner boys.
This group of uncouth but fabulously powerful individuals had in the past been content to remain in the shadows but since the big Mrima fallout they have become increasingly vocal and visible. Sadly, they are as uncultured as they are loud, arrogant and mannerless.
But the last word in the walk of shame has to be the fact that the one man that the Mrima rallied against and vowed that he shall not take the seat of power while they breathed, Baba, is now deeply ensconced in the very government they tried to keep him from.
How infuriating and embarrassing it must be for the Mrima to have worked so hard to keep Baba out of the government and to have to contend with the fact that currently he may be actually the de facto leader as he is the glue propping up this abominable regime.
The Mrima, by rejecting Baba, set in motion a series of unrelated events that culminated in his being invited to the table to form the nonsensical broadbased government which is a sham as it is common knowledge that Kasongo would gladly be rid of Baba, if he could.
Kenya seems to have perfected marriages of convenience where allies become foes and rivals become partners. The final walk of shame may take place when the Mrima realizes that they may need Baba if the current chant‘ Ruto must go’ is to be actualized.
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