Powerful article: The rise and fall of an hustler
The proverbial swahili saying “siku ya nyani kufa miti yote huteleza” is very much at play in Kenya politics, if events of the recent past are anything to go by. William Ruto, the self proclaimed “hustler” is under siege, watching helplessly and hopelessly as his Presidential ambitions evaporates into thin air. That does not mean he cannot contest the Presidency. No. He can go ahead and contest, just like Abduba Dida and Aukur Aukot will contest, in the spirit of “democratic right”. In our contemporary political history, King makers have never become Kings and it’s crystal clear that history is here to repeat itself. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga made Jomo Kenyatta a King, Charles Mugane Njonjo rebelled against his fellow Mt Kenya Mafia to scuttle the Change the Constitution Movement and solely made Moi a King, Raila Odinga made Emilio Mwai Kibaki a King in 2003. In all this instances, the Kings applied the principle of “finish the King maker once you become a King, one of the clauses in t...