Wam Literature

Kethi Kilonzo shocked many when she turned down a rather juicy offer to join the senate. The polls though were on her favour, the entry of her mother- stepmother -was too much to handle. Although the reason she gave is African, it is disturbing to think how irrelevant the people of Makueni really are to prevail upon one family to take upon leadership of the vast county while they tail along.  Ever since senator Mutula Kilonzo died, debate started over who would succeed him. All eyes were directed at Kethi, who shot to fame during the presidential trial at the Supreme Court. She represented AFRICOG in a manner never seen before, which of course rekindled hope of the success of the case against Uhuru’s presidency. Anyway, the hopes were dwindled when the Supreme Court was turned into a crime scene with heavy police presence and a yellow crime scene tape surrounding it. Away with crime scene tapes, question is, who killed the Makueni Senator and why? Is it justifiable to t

                                  In 1997, when I was in Primary school, our then Member of Parliament, Musalia Mudavadi, in a bid to win the parliamentary seat for Sabatia, donated 19 lockers to our school. The man in fact, and this was the first time I was seeing him, came to our school to hand out the desks. Remember the school had over 300 pupils. We waited in anticipation as the tortured bananas waved defiantly in the September sun. He came at one, we danced in excitement as we admired his security detail and his motor vehicle entourage which included the local D.O. he was in hurry and so we assembled so fast, Mr. D.O talked so fast and welcomed him.                                           And that is where Musalia Mudavadi, the son of Mudamba dropped the bombshell. He said, as a matter of fact, that any pupil, among the class eight candidates, who will get 550 out of the possible 700 will receive Kshs. 10,000. That’s when I knew the man was bluffing. I laughed because