Pundit should compare NASA's reception in Meru/Embu to Jubilee's reception in Western Kenya and smell the coffee. The ground has definitely shifted.
the luhyas simply decided to vanish. Those who know history recall when Napoleon entered Moscow. He had his mandarins with him. He had the best ceasefire negotiators. He had seasoned surrender articles drafters who already the instruments prepared by the best draftsmen. Napoleon just wanted the Tsar to come in his formal uniform as the imperial head of land and sea forces of Russia to sign capitulation, accept French power.
Nobody came.
Napoleon grew angry. He was planning to burn Moscow. But the Russians beat him to it. Fires broke out around them. They discovered the city was empty. Not a soul.