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By Peter Kimani
In spite of the advance notice, police have
failed to warn the public to avoid certain city streets, particularly the Hotel
Intercontinental neighbourhood, the epicentre of volcanic eruptions emanating
from Miguna Miguna’s book to be launched tomorrow.
It’s no exaggeration Miguna’s book, Peeling Back
the Mask, which he promised would be a “volcano,” has been spewing lava hot and
cold most of this week as the book was serialised in sections of the media.
The most riveting of those eruptions come in the
very beginning of the text, where Tinga and Prezzo were allegedly locked in a
brawl reminiscent of schoolboy tiffs.
collision government
The setting was Kilaguni resort where coalition
partners ODM and PNU had retreated to review their incessant squabbles that
easily turned ours into a collision government.
But rather than finding traction, the ODM and
PNU factions made more farakano (disputes) which, according to Miguna, mainly
stemmed from the disproportionately larger and nicer rooms allocated PNU
politicians.
Tinga was particularly given short-shrift,
according to Miguna, calling to mind another episode months earlier when, on a
tour of the Coast Province – before some chaps declared it was not part of
Kenya – he found no red carpet rolled out for him, or even a presidential
toilet fitted.
Kilaguni was the mother of all madharau, Miguna
writes, because Tinga not only failed to secure a presidential suite, he could
not even be allowed into Prezzo’s suite when he went calling.
Instead, Miguna says, Prezzo went to the window
and said rather curtly: “Wewe Raira unataka nini?” to which Tinga burst into
tears. The whole fiasco, Miguna goes on, lasted a whole half an hour, during
which Prezzo is reported to have told Tinga their “window” consultations were
over, and Tinga should learn to relax, particularly when it’s taxpayers paying
for their holiday.
Miguna claims Tinga was inconsolable and spent
the rest of the day weeping, pleading, “Please don’t take me to Kibaki
again...”
Such “volcanic” revelations will certainly tug
at the heartstrings of many Kenyans who had no idea how Tinga has been
mistreated over the past four years.
setting the tone
But Miguna spares his heaviest punches for his
comrade at work, Caroli, whom he accuses of everything – from making quick
riches rather effortlessly, while still endearing himself to Tinga.
I suspect Miguna may have taunted Caroli as
Carol (after all, how does a man get such a name), as Miguna’s frustrations over
Caroli alleged influence in PM’s office are evident.
In fact, the feud between the two is the most
pronounced, and sets the tone for the rest of the book. Tinga on the other
hand, is alleged to have made a quick buck, by cutting private deals during his
public tour of duty, while still managing the time to make vitendawili for the
wananchi, antics that Miguna believes were calculated to hoodwink the public.
After all, Miguna says, Tinga is no man of the
people but a shrewd investor hell-bent on primitive accumulation of capital.
Tinga’s greatest weakness, Miguna concludes, is his proclivity for hiring
rotten apples.
The irony of it is that Tinga would be making
similar conclusions of Miguna, wondering how he hired a servant who would not
just tell on him, but fail remarkably in recognising his own complicity in the
malfeasance he so eloquently accuses others of perpetrating.
The shooting cop of Gatundu is certainly
in good company
I enjoyed your last week’s piece on the shooting
cop of Kimunyu, Gatundu. I come from neighbouring Nembu, where the form of
insecurity that police are perpetuating is a notch higher.
Illicit brews like chang’aa are being sold along
the main road from Ruiru, just after the coffee estates, particularly over for
the last three months.
Yet, we have more than five police posts within
the locality, namely Ng’enda, Gathage, Nembu, Kahuguini and Kibichoi with a
total of more than 25 officers in charge.Police seem unable or unwilling to
sort this mess. It would be hard to believe the police are not aware as young
men drink in the open. As a matter of fact, one is tempted to think political
rallies are in progress in these areas as dozens of young men converge as early
as 7am to start their drinking sprees.
Who will save our people from imminent
destruction?
If the Government is worried about the runaway
insecurity, which saw multiple transfers of police chiefs, then it’s time they
reorganised the affected police posts where a slow but sure tragedy is unfolding.
Kung’u Gitau, Gatundu
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