That's a great analogy - Matiba died a bankrupt cripple and is long forgotten.
Unlike those times you wont see Ruto anytime in jail or being poisoned..
No Paul Muires to hold brief and betray him. I bet you dont even know Muites was Matibas sidekick . You dont know what transpired then hence your one liner.
Matiba bore the blunt of the Moi state in 2nd liberation. He was enemy of the state before handing over to Raila who has handed over to Mobutu. That's a good summary. I wasn't around but you read it in the paper too unless you were an activist at 5 years like Njamba.
Nope we were old enough to experience what was going on then.
Some of the best political times, When Matiba was sick and rexovering in United Kingdom, Muite used to fly and come back with Matiba news . All Kenyans wanted to hear was what Matibas plan were
What was the outcome of the 1992 elections? Did Matiba win? According to Pundit Moi remained wildly popular despite the opposition-donor conspiracy to depose him. The recorded history doesn't agree with your story - Kibaki trailed Matiba closely with Mt Kenya West and Meru. Matiba wasn't all that.
Well There are claims that Matiba won, but personally I concluded that Moi won.
2 major things happened Ford Split because of the differences between the camps of Matiba and Jaramogi, Jaramogi and his team wanted voting of presidential candidate to be through deligates system Matiba wanted political suffarage.
Secondly Kibaki happened and partly the reason Mt Kenya in 1997 were disenfranchised hence the lower outcome and some voted for SDP for Mps and regused to vote for pesidential candidate where as it should be the opposite.
Kibaki spoilt it for Matiba , we strongly then believed that rhen Kibaki was Mois project because months prior to his defection from he had gone publicly and said that KANU was like a Mugumo tree you can cut it using a razor blade.
In early 90s Naorobi was like 80% Kikuyus so when Matiba decided to organize saba saba with Rubia , it was so big forget this maandamano from kibera chaps, then his homecoming from treatment in Lkndon was so big and sent panic mode to KANU.
For your info politics then was not brodcast in local station i.e. KBC tv and radio , we would only get it by personally experiencing it or through BBC.
Matiba always believed his votes in Eastern province were transfered to Kibaki although he never produced any proof. Just Matibas votes plus Kibaki remember Matiba had luhya votes courtesy of Shikuku were more than Mois , that tells you how big Mt Kenya vote was.