OF WOLVES AND FOXES:BY EDWIN SUDI

I agree with you in toto Mr. Fwamba, at least to the extend of your classifying NARC-K and ODM-K as fox and wolf respectively. But i find myself dutybound to dissent to your analysis and eventual verdict. With all due respect to your intellect and historical aptitude, i beg to disagree that by going the NARC-K way is the only way to ensure that real reformists get to power. Not if you were old enough since the eve to the 2002 elections and awake up to date. To quote the likes of Kivutha, Martha Karua... as the true reformists to me is shooting oneself in the mouth. I can only excuse you if you confess not to understand the inside story on these two, especially on commission on human rights appointments and the judiciary generally. I stand to be corrected but i believe that the judiciary ranks among the most important institutions in any government and tampering with it a tantamount to playing with your last dime next to an open deep hole. You clearly pointed out names like Kibaki, Michuki, Karume and in your wisdom decided that they are going to be out of power, perfect reasoning. Only try to refresh your memory, what was your hope in 2002? That this bunch of old guards would give way come 2007? So what is this turnaround? What reason have you to think that the said old guards shall not want to have there sons and daughters (by blood or by ideology) in power before they leave office? Why have you decided to so blatantly lose memory of the fact that all the old guards you mentioned were in KANU at some point? And who told you that the moment all KANU blood is cleared from politics then we shall be home and dry? With the likes of Mukhisa Kituyi who has been so eloquent in international trade summits yet he has done nothing to help the poor Bukusu sugar farmers prepare for the liberalization of trade by COMESA? So he shall become saved, see the light and become very concious to the plight of his people all of a sudden immediately we support NARC-K? By the way, i may agree with you that the sons of the several leaders you have mentioned should not be allowed anywhere near the seat of power, but then i disagree with your mentioning the most inconsistent of your so called 'reformists' as the best. I would rather you mentioned somebody like Paul Muite, Maoka Maore, Joseph Nyaga who have refused to be opportunists in the Kibaki Government, where they would be voted in without much campaigning, for the sake of integrity! I am sick of the Kikuyu brainwashing that is slowly gripping kenya. Are we going to allow ourselves to create a Kikuyu colony? Where all the relevant offices are held by the kikuyu - Min of defense, Internal Security, Finance, KRA, major parastatals - and the rest of the crap is used to hoodwink the rest of the gullible tribes to support them - clearing Aganyanya and Nambuye of corruption.. . so timely! Lying to Kituyi that he might be made VP (not that it would add an ounce of ugali to luyia plate - not if it is the Mukhisa you and i know!) Let me be candid with you Fwamba, when we talk of regional balance, we are talking of some sort of not necessarily constitutionalized rotational basis of helmsmanship. We erred to have a Kikuyu take over after Moi, we are not going to repeat the mistake to give him or another kikuyu another chance! Talk of creating a monarchy, what is worse than making Kikuyus think they are the royal family? who said a luo, a luyia, a kamba, a taita...cannot lead? Have you tried them? Ok, maybe they are equally bad, well let us have another tribe plundering us! Pliz Fwamba, let us not give this country in the hands of a bunch of old men who know that they have no business coming back again after five years. They will loot with impunity, create there own sons to take over and continue ruling us through proxies. Let us root them out before they have time to do this. It was through such delay that the Uhuru Kenyatta you are complaining about was created by Moi. Efula selichanga kusala khabili ta!