MARTHA KARUA WILL GO TO HELL

Martha Karua will go for the presidency and she will do anything to get there. She will sacrifice a lot and take suffering in a stride till she can get there. But Martha Karua can go to hell if her eyes will remain fixed on that post. She cannot win on this earthly or a heavenly Kenya. I will explain myself.

Martha Karua is no democrat. Truth be told, I admire her greatly for efforts in the struggle for multipartyism. She contributed a lot. Her time in government has been a far cry however. She was ready to standby and defends a government that had its own agenda, quite different from that of the mwananchi. After defending Kibaki’s re-election so fiercely (so fiercely that she sent us to chaos) she now has the guts to say both Kibaki and Raila rigged the election. She wants to cry for the victims of Mungiki now; while she kept mum serving the same government that had endorsed extra-judicial murder. She is a person who will do nothing before you can satisfactorily answer her one question; ‘what’s in it for me?’ that is the sole reason she resigned. Karua is simply trying to replay what Raila did after being fired in 2005. Second, she wants to show she can break from the GEMA lords, from whom she is not actually breaking. She has never been an entity in GEMA.

The way to win elections is through the hearts of many or those of the kingmakers. That is for a man, at the sake of sounding politically rude. Karua is doing a great deal to win the hearts of the masses including ads on Facebook. She is suddenly noticing what a pity the common mwananchi is, and because she suddenly has realised that this government doesn’t serve the common mwananchi she resigned. The word has come to Karua and Mungatana is the messenger, the flock cannot be found. Karua is not that good with her tongue as to entice nor is she surrounded by particularly oratorical men. The kingmakers on the other hand are not for Karua, she would have to go back to Kibaki.

By 2012, Karua will be in the place Kenneth Njindo Matiba was in 2007. A great resource wasted by ambition, burnt by time beyond recognition. Once something has been around for too long, it gets stale and nobody wants to touch it. Karua will be a product expired by 2012. She will not even be such a force as to break up the GEMA vote. At the end of 2012, because she does not have a reverse gear, she will be drowning in the sea of the common mwananchi.

She can’t win the hearts of the masses or the kingmakers, so how can she win? Even if she had wanted to rig, by 2012, not even street boys will be ready to stake their necks out for Martha Karua. But there is one open way that remains for every woman on this earth. That is to go all the way with their legs wide apart. That, I do not believe is the way for one as respectable as Martha Karua.

As it is, Martha Karua has only one option: to swallow her pride and go back to the armpits of Kibaki, who might create yet another irrelevant ministry like the Ministry of Maendeleo ya Wanawake for her. Ngilu was simply wise when she said, ‘I will be back,’ rather than go for the presidency.