By PHILIP OCHIENG
Apparently, the professor of politics was learned only in the “techniques” of achieving immediate power interests.
Since he lost all power possibilities in 2002, he has exposed an astonishing absence of not only social education but also self-protective wisdom.
Concerning Mau, who “dished out” such huge swathes of land to individuals? The reports are cagey about it. But any glance at the list of recipients reveals that they could have benefited only during Daniel arap Moi’s political stewardship.
Thus, were I he, I would maintain a tight lip on that controversy. Why? Because it is a list of Who Was Who in the Nyayo system.
Nay, more. It is a list of overwhelmingly Kalenjin individuals. No, I have no problem with my people of “Onjelo”. I accuse only certain individuals among them.
Ravenous and ruthless in the extreme, they danced around the president like moths around a glowglobe, grabbing everything they could lay their hands on. But, as long as it was the community’s name that suffered nationally, they could get away with it as individuals.
They had learned well from the preceding regime. A certain very tightly knit clique of Kikuyu individuals had hidden behind the tribe’s name and completely ruined its reputation by grabbing both power and wealth under the banner of “Kikuyu”, rather than merely as individuals.
That is the same game that the culprits in the destruction of Mau are still trying to play. Just as the ordinary Kikuyu never benefited from Mzee Kenyatta’s Home Guard regime, so the ordinary Kalenjin never benefited from the Nyayo regime – in particular, from the Mau allotments.
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