IT IS POWER RETENTION TACT NOTHING LIKE LAPSSET

IT IS POWER RETENTION TACT NOTHING LIKE LAPSSET

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s recycling of political rejectees and an analogue retired civil servant to head Parastatals is not surprising; some of us saw it coming. In fact it is a substantiation of what everyone with political prescience expected. Uhuru being a conscientious student of professor of politics former president Daniel Moi must have paid his former mentor a courtesy call for tutorials on how to retain power even when it is clear that administration has been challenging to the digital boy.

Francis Muthaura

Such are the very characters Moi advised his successor president Mwai Kibaki to have in his circle after a fall out with an ally turned foe Raila Odinga in 2005 referendum. Moi had always looked for the slightest opportunity to revenge on Odinga on what he termed as humiliation by rocking KANU from and within when he (Moi) endorsed young Uhuru Kenyatta as presidential candidate in 2002 dropping Mr. Odinga. Bringing the like of old Francis Muthaura on board through my magnified political microscope divulge Uhuru’s panic as  dissenting voices on raw deal on government appointments from Rift Valley region, Uhuru political substratum in 2013 elections emerges. 

The Kalenjin constituency at present is seriously exploring the option courting other regions a head of 2017 polls. Recent in-roads by deputy president William Ruto in parts of Western, Luo Nyanza and coast is a statement to this. To survive in such a mess Uhuru needs to be sufficiently crafty and smart by bringing within his circles of power, people familiar with power retention dexterity who would be handy to help him maneuver his ways should there be a need. They don’t necessarily need to be enjoying lucrative government assignments but what you must ensure is placing them in strategic positions accessible to you at all times. For Uhuru Kenyatta, Muthaura is the man for such task. 

He (Muthaura) has virtually served both successive Kenyan government at the very top-core level and understand the real power and what it means to keep it within your yard.  With such individuals around Uhuru is diligently mastering the art of political survival just as his mentor Moi did through tact, dictatorship, guile and artful maneuvering of both the processes and system to his advantage to say in power. It will not be by sheer luck that Uhuru will survived 2017 presidential to complete the two term he constantly sing and pass the leadership button to another Kikuyu and not Ruto as Kalenjin masses have been made to believe.