Sunday October 14,2012 - Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s Coalition Adviser Miguna Miguna will publish a new book early next year about the nation’s struggle for reforms and how different presidential aspirants played different roles in fighting for reforms.
Mr Miguna the author of the controversial memoir Peeling Back the Mask: A Quest for Justice in Kenya, told journalists on Saturday that his new book will be issued before the next election and will assess the choices voters face in the first General Election since the new constitution was endorsed.
“The principal theme will be the question of reforms. Are reforms what Kenyans want? And if that is the case how can we go about it. Who can drive, sustain and bring to reality the reforms that Kenyans have fought for?”
The Osgoode’s law scholar asserts that he will not be targeting Mr Odinga and will examine the record of all the presidential candidates.
But continued to say he will pay more attention to Raila Odinga because he is the man who he knows best and he had worked with.
“I will deal with Raila very exhaustively. I know Raila well and I have worked with him. He is the only one among the candidates who I once believed in. I will write about Uhuru (Kenyatta) and (William Ruto) and the other players. But naturally I can say more about Raila than I can about the others.”
The brilliant lawyer said the new book will be more “explosive” than Peeling back the Mask.
“There is a lot of fresh information. The beauty of writing is that some people criticise you and say you got it wrong but others will say we have more information. Some will say here are documents you did not have. That means inevitably the result will be a book that is richer in content.”
When questioned on how he is only targeting Mr Odinga, Miguna said the he had worked with closely with PM and that is why he wrote about his rogue behaviours and why he is a “flexible and coward leader” who cannot be bestowed power to lead the nation.
“That’s the easiest thing to say. But I’ve challenged my critics to put forward specific complaints. Cite a chapter or particular incident which I have mischaracterised. Don’t offer a generalised critique. If I say I attended a meeting where there were only four of us and you did not attend the meeting, on what grounds can you attack me. I have not been paid to write the book. That’s nonsense,” Miguna said.
His earlier book, Peeling Back the Mask: A Quest for Justice in Kenya caused panic and anxiety in ODM’s side of the coalition and many political pundits are saying one of the major causes of PM plummeting popularity in recent opinion polls, is because of Miguna’s explosive memoir.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
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