Foxy Brilliance or Indecisiveness? Mudavadi's 'Stubbornness' as Opposition Colleagues Board the Omnibus to 'Heaven'
From ODM leader Raila Odinga, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka to CCM boss Isaac Ruto just to mention but a few, all have rallied their respective troops behind them to go and dine at the country's high table of power.
By Ndung'u Wa Gathua
While they may want you to believe that they are doing it for the sake of the country's unity, stability, development, among other things they have been citing as reasons behind their joining of government, the truth is that these are all white lies.
What all these political opportunists in this bandwagon will not and shall never tell you, is that they are breaking their feet rushing to the high table for only one reason: to fill their own 'stomachs'.
They are scrambling for space at the dias with vested interests and are only there seeking to benefit in one way or another. All the other things you hear being tossed around are secondary to them and without priority.
If you doubt, President Uhuru Kenyatta took office in 2013 and just like now, the country was then as divided as it is, Uhuru had an agenda then he needed support to implement as it is the case today, among other things you can probably think of.
However, we did not witness anything close to the current mad-rush which is being hawked in the name of 'unity' or the so-called Building Bridges Initiative. Which bridges?
If there are people who need to build bridges among themselves and they need not climb on rooftops to tell us about it anyway, it is the power-hungry political class.
Otherwise, ordinary Kenyans are always united and coexist peacefully side by side until the egocentric political demagogues appear in our neighbourhoods after every five years to remind us of our different ethnicities and other vitriolic garbage they spit to divide us for self-gain.
As for the convener of these opportunists to the high table, his purported motive(s) behind taking this move is now in doubt for two simple reasons: One, during his first term, Kenya then still faced with same challenges like today, he never invited the opposition to the high table to forge ahead as one, and two, you cannot be gathering here and scattering there.
It, therefore, goes without saying that either the convener or the convened is playing a secret card against the other. That said, allow me now to allude to the Fox and the Sick Lion fable story to explain why I feel like the convener of the 'party' could be the one playing tricks.
The Fox and the 'Sick' Lion
A lion grown too old and weak to hunt pretended to be sick as a ruse and ate the animals that came to visit him in his cave.
But the fox only greeted him from outside and, on being asked why it did not enter, replied, "Because I can only see tracks going in, but none coming out".
Unfortunately, all the politicians in this bandwagon including Raila himself who has severally been 'bitten' in the past through such cunning arrangements, don't seem to see the tracks and learn something from them.
The only high profile politician who is yet to get in this omnibus to 'heaven', perhaps because he is as clever as the fox or he is still sitted on the fence quarreling with his usual indecisiveness, is ANC party leader, Musalia Mudavadi.
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How long Mudavadi can resist the urge to enter the den to pay homage to the 'sick' Lion, remains to be seen. For now, we can only give him the benefit of doubt.
As of Moses Wetang'ula, I bet you can rightly guess where his heart could be after his bitter fallout with Raila which he had threatened would be 'messy, ugly and noisy' only to turn out later to have been mere hot air.
Back to our fable, English author William Caxton, gives the moral lesson a political slant by asserting: "It is easier to enter the house of a great lord than to get out of it."
He adds that the word of the powerful is not to be trusted, and as such, one should not only note signs of danger, but also learn from them to be cautious.
Another author and poet Roger L’Estrange's narration of the fable makes an interesting inference from the communication between the fox and the lion: "the kindness of ill-natured and designing people should be throughly considered and examined, before we give credit to them".
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