Miguna’s ‘Peeling Back the Mask’ an anticlimax with no effect on Raila
Posted Wednesday, July 11 2012 at 19:17
I just read Miguna’s book serialised in the Nation and couldn’t help laugh while at the same time wonder what he was up to when he decided to write this book.
However, two things clearly come out: a glimpse into Kenyan raw politics and Miguna’s creative artwork.
As I read, I wondered: Did Miguna write the book out of anger after losing his job and so exaggerated information to a level the reader cannot differentiate between fact and fiction?
Does it mean that the PM had nobody to investigate the maize scandal and report to him other than Miguna?
What about the Efficiency Monitoring Unit? Can you be an advisor on coalition affairs, a PS and an investigator?
Politically the book will do no harm to the PM, since its sense of comedy and fiction overrides any seriousness and overall, appears like revenge for a lost job.
Nevertheless I will read it when it comes out, more for its comic relief and crafting of words than anything else.
CHARLES MOSIRIA, Nairobi
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Nobody targeted
The yet-to-be-launched book Peeling Back the Mask by Miguna Miguna has been making headlines lately, and I would like to concur with the editorial in Wednesday’s Nation: Nobody’s being targeted.
Our Constitution gives us freedom of expression so long as it’s not abusive, and I consider the book just like any other literature worth having regarding leaders.
There is no impact the book will have regarding the next polls because I believe the coming elections will be a matter of ideologies, development agenda and credentials, hence the party manifesto will be fundamental.
For instance in Wednesday’s Nation, I read about an anti-Obama film featuring his brother and accusing the US President of neglecting his half brother.
But in a very surprising rejoinder, the brother answers the pro-Republican Dinesh D’Souza that his senior brother has his own family to take care of, besides his job as US president. This will only lead to healthy and constructive debates.
Everyone of us has a secret life and that’s why we are guarded by the Constitution to freedom of privacy.
SHEM MUTULU, Nairobi
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Too late
Miguna Miguna is a pot calling a kettle black. He must have enjoyed some good offerings and incentives as these scandals he struggles to expose were executed.
If he were patriotic enough, he wouldn’t have allowed the ill deeds to transpire in his presence. He should have gone public during that time.
NGUGI NG’ANG’A, Nyeri
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