I guess we can agree to disagree. Jubilee 2 has been nothing but wonderful for Mt Kenya - with shameless tribal favors particularly for the Kikuyu. BBI, Mau Mau Roads,
Lunatic Mt Kenya Express, appointments, name it. Alice Wahome or Ndindi Nyoro are not Kikuyu elders or spokesmen but first or second term MPs. Their word is as weighty as Alfred Keter's on Kalenjin affairs. Why should we believe Ndindi and not Wambugu? Kuria and not Wamatangi? Wahome and not Waruguru? Kareke Mbiuki and not Muthoki Njuki? Linturi and not Kiraitu and Mpuru Aburi?
Actually if you consider Ruto's desperation in Mt Kenya - it is worse than Raila's in Kalenjin pre-2012. At least Raila had big shots in nusu mkate and ODM. Henry and Sally Kosgeys, Sirma, Bett Frank, - long list of loyalists. Ruto's tiny band of Nyoro, Kihika, Wahome and Kuria is nothing. It has really thinned out - literally an avalanche from Ruto to Raila corner in Mt Kenya. Kanini Kega, Waiguru, Sabina, Cate Waruguru and name it were all Ruto diehards as recently as 2019.
All these - despite the mountains of propaganda by Itumbi, Mutembei TV and millions of Facebook and YouTube bots. They sing Ruto praises and plant falsehoods on the internet for a living. Ruto propaganda team easily beats Hitler & Goebbels. At some point it was said Uhuru could not tour the mountain for fear of hostile mobs. Police and chiiefs were needed to marshal audiences and maintain the peace. Because of this rebellion- angry Gema CS and kitchen cabinet were plotting to assassinate Ruto.
an investigation promptly nailed Itumbi with cellphone evidence. There was a tweet - yes, one tweet - about hostile mobs being kept at bay by chiefs at Kirinyaga Stadium in a presidential event. On TV and YouTube and live media we were amused as the wildly popular Tangatanga MPs were forcefully ejected from Uhuru's meetings. Crowds cheered the president at random stops - not a whiff of the simmering hostility.
As the snow mountain of lies about Ruto's popularity collapsed - now all leaders were claimed to be Ruto followers but maintaining a becoming facade of respect for Uhuru. All MCAs and MPs were in Ruto's iron grip. Soon, of course, they impeached Waititu. Alas! the numbers were false. Now we were told Ruto controlled the senate and therefore impeachment was a pipedream. Lol - but apparently the few senators especially the nominated had been intimidated - the numerous MPs would save the day. As the cabinet, parastatal, parliamentary and Jubilee Party purge thickened the spin became untenable. No less than Citizen TV's #TheGang laughed off fresh lies by the deputy president that Jubilee government camaraderie was intact and was only challenged by the covid-19 social distancing rules.
If anything really rained on the shameless spin about the country's politics it was the Uhurutopia implosion. But how can people who went so far to maintain a transparent fiction be truthful today? Why should we believe their news now about what is happening in the country? They lied in our faces before and are definitely doing it today.