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{UAH} Allan/Edmund/Gook/Pojim/WBK: Barrack Muluka: Is DP Ruto dancing himself lame before the real dance?


NaiNotepad   By Barrack Muluka 5 days ago
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It is rather early in the political day to tell where the Tangatanga whirlwind across Kenya will end up, 49 months hence. Kenyans will recall how, earlier in the year, President Uhuru Kenyatta rather scornfully referred to his Deputy, William Ruto, as "this young man William Ruto." The President went on to suggest that "young William" was loitering around the country

— virtually aimlessly. However, gifted with rare ability to turn around a negative situation, the Deputy President swiftly accepted the "loitering" tag. His Sky Team gave way to a new team. The Loitering Team was born and
— today – there is such a thing in Kenya as "Team Tangatanga."

And Team Tangatanga is on a tumultuous early campaign mission for the August 2022 Presidential Election in Kenya. It is a good 49 months to the election, almost to the day. It is a long time away

— indeed a long, long time. You need the lungs, the muscles, the bones and the stamina. For, nobody can accurately look into the seeds of time and tell what they will germinate into. As they say, though, fortune favours the prepared. There is a sense in which, accordingly, the Tangatanga Troupe is probably right in getting off the marks this early; its sights firmly cast on August 2022.
Yet, we cannot forget Chinua Achebe, where he reminds us of the antelope that danced itself lame before the actual dance began. Could Team Tangatanga just dance itself lame ahead of the real thing? Perhaps not. For, this is the one team that boasts of a properly overloaded moneybag. I have actually heard that they are moneybags. The strategy is to buy just about anybody and anything that can be bought. People, they say, are just goods at the marketplace. What matters is the price tag. Tangatanga is accordingly coming your way, fully-loaded. No price tag is beyond their reach, they say.

The fly in the broth, however, is that the Tangatanga team leader does not seem as yet to have secured the essential blessings from the very top. Haki ya Mungu, hii Kenya iko na wenyewe, bwana – alah! When they were on the campaign trail last year – and even before – the popular refrain was, "Ten years for Uhuru, followed by ten years for Ruto." But does that only seem to have been a ruse by Mwenyewe mmoja, to get the Ruto corner of the Jubilee house to deliver Mwenyewe home, after which political expediency would take care of everything else? What did President Uhuru, aka the reigning Mwenyewe, mean when he told a public gathering in Nyeri last week that he was yet to pronounce himself on the 2022 presidential race?

When you are William Ruto, your understanding is that you are an essential part of the power matrix in the country. You understand that you have not arrived where you are by invitation. You are not anybody's guest at the dining table, but your own man. Hata wewe ni mwenyewe. You have spent your own political fuel to get there. You don't, therefore, owe anybody apologies for the office you hold. Yet, do others seem to be thinking differently? Why has President Uhuru Mwenyewe found it necessary to tell the country that he has yet to pronounce himself on his choice for 2022? Indeed, the President went on to state that his choice for 2022 will send shock waves across the country. We can only wait to be shocked.

Meanwhile, our people say, beware the spoken word. In Christendom, they say in the Old Testament book of Amos (3:8), "The lion has roared, who will not fear?" Uhuru has spoken, who will not panic? By saying that he will say what he wants to say in 2022, he has said who his choice is not. Kenyans may, therefore, not know what the Uhuru Choice that will shock them in 2022 will be. But for now they know what it is not. It is not William Ruto. You don't say that you will choke and shock us when all along you have told us that your deputy will succeed you. We are already chocked.

The DP begins looking increasingly like the Mexican majordomo who forgets his true identity. You have seen him in the Mexican movies. The majordomo is the chief steward, the head of the domestic workforce in a filthily wealthy home. All the trappings of the good life are there, in this home. There are houses, horses and horse chariots. There are state of the art limousines and more limos. There are jets and choppers. And the majordomo believes that he is part of this breath-taking galaxy of wealth. In point of fact, he is the foremost outsider. Malcolm X, the late American civil rights leader, had something to say about this.

Malcolm was acutely aware that there were two kinds of African slaves in America. There was the slave who worked in the house and the slave in the field. The house slave, also known as the House Nigger, was of a higher rank than the field slave, aka the Field Nigger. The Filed Nigger worked and lived in scorching circumstances. And so the House Nigger took his colleague in the field literally as an outsider. Yet, in truth, both were outsiders. Every so often, therefore, Malcolm would chide the outsider who lived in the master's house, "You've been mistook! When master buys a new car, you say 'our car.' YBut you are wrong. It's the master's car. Not yours."

As the Tangatanga Squad goes around the country, it will want to remember this old Nigger song that they sang on the plantations in America in the 19th Century:

Run, Nigger run; de patter-roller catch you

Run, Nigger run; it's almost day

Run, Nigger run; de patter-roller catch you

Run, Nigger run; and try to get away ….

And the refrain went something like:

Dis Nigger run, he run his best

Stuck his head in a hornet's nest

Jumped de fence and run fru the paster

White man run, but Nigger run faster!

And so run, Nigger run. Run faster than the master. You have put your head in the hornet's nest. Each time you say the words "dynasty" and "hustler," don't you ever forget that you stab the boss straight in the heart. But keep running, 49 months is not 42 kilometres. But run on, all the same. Run, Nigger, run!

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