Kenya can only heal once we are honest and tell true honest stories like yours.
There is no doubt that Raila CONTRIBUTED A LOT to Kibaki winning.
GEMA basically abandoned Kibaki and run to Uhuru. Including the NOWAYAH fool here.
Some of us who had supported kibaki for decades knows this.
When Raila and KANU crew (Kalonzo, Saitoti, rest) broke off KANU - we hade HUGE moment in kenya.
I attended my first and only rally during Tosha moment.
I watched Raila and Kibaki in Uhuru park declare they had united against MOI.
It was MOST MOMENTOUS moment in kenya history.
Until then Uhuru and Moi the proffesori was winning.
Moi had turned GEMA head upside down by endorsing Uhuru.
Kikuyus for like two months had totally forgotten about Moi - and had tropped to KANU - it was surreal.
When Njenga Karume joined KANU - it was over for Kibaki.
Anyway personally I attended that rally - and then UON closed - we went for serious campaingn
My father a long time DP candidate - convinced an engineer son of Kenyatta era ambassador of China-Russia to run under NARC
So i spent lots of time in campaigns.
Raila when Kibaki got injured and was in London - took over the campaigns.
Raila didnt sleep - he worked very very hard.
Even most hateful of kikuyus knows his contribution to destroying KANU.
I personally on 24th and 25th was with Raila men and Raila himself - few days to election.
Kibaki messed up.
I quit DP - told my father I cannot be in a party of kikuyu tribalist - around 2004/2005.
Yes Luos were such a drag - everywhere you went - they were shouting this our goverment
University halls - they would force us to listen to gov news
Raila was all over - Nyongos - etc.
Kikuyus of worst kind slowly took over kibaki and it was over when Githongo quit. Would be akin to Ndii quiting statehouse and running to exile.
And correction there was no NARC.
We had NAK - under Kibaki, Charity and Kijana -
Kanu led by William Ruto used to make fun of them
It actually around those time I started noticing this eldoret dude.
Ruto used to say Kibaki, Ngilu & Kijana will finish Serena tea with their talks. Before that we had Kamotho who'd steer off like a mad pastor on his rants.
Ruto was different - he would passionately defend KANU but wont veer or steer off - he'd still come out reasonable.
He was unlike anything in KANU.
I remember asking my nandi friend who he was - he told me he didnt know much as Ruto is uasin gishu dude- he only knew Henry Kosgey & type.
I told him this guy will one day become Kenya president.Looking back - Ruto has incredible gift - that is hard to point - but he can literally sell your mother back to you.
NARC came when LDP and NAK agreed to merge in Serene hotel and came to Uhuru park in the only rally I ever attended.
Ndii has alluded to it - that he told Ndii you do the economics and I will sell it.
In my business experience I have met such people mostly americans who can sell anything.
For Ruto I dont know if it's inborn gift
or learnt skill in hawking...which he did in primary and high. school
Or selling insurances..,which did in campus and still do.
or selling Jesus christ..which he did in high school or campus.
But he certainly has the ability to sell anything - including hell - and make you look forward to it.
I had American partner - he was like give me talking points - just few minutes to presentation - you tell him this is xyz set - next time he is talking about - you're like dude - he is launching rockets in the sky - and the thing can also boil coffee - if you have low ambition. All that time you're mouth agape wondering how will we deliver??????????? Then he comes round and say forget about it - we are going to become rich
. Next week you're in your desk sweating trying to deliver at least 1/4 of his promises. It was almost certain he would nail the deal. Shida ni yenu to deliver.
To beat such gifted marketers is incredibly hard.
Hapo Pundit I agree with you 100%. Raila though a late comer to Narc did a very good job. I left Kenya in less than a year after Kibaki came to power and I remember as an international student how a lot of students were using the fact that Raila was demolishing properties constructed illegally to pave way for the bypasses we see today as a way of getting office of international programs to allow them more time to pay fees or take less credits. The pretext was that they had lost family businesses/ properties to the Crack down. Whatever happened to the man Kikuyus proudly called Njamba I can't explain. 2007 campaigns were just beyond toxic. My kids who never spoke a word in kikuyu always tell me how they were escorted by the military out of the Rift valley at the wee hours of dawn. Politics of betrayal and tribalism turned neighbors to savages. I hope we never go back there again.
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