Revealed! Mount Kenya Prefer a Raila Presidency

Opposition leader Raila Odinga with Deputy President William Ruto.photo/File

The political deal between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga is causing havoc in Mt Kenya politics with some leaders now openly gravitating towards the Nasa leader.

By August last year, the vote-rich region comprising 10 counties appeared locked behind Deputy President William Ruto to succeed Uhuru in 2022. Not so, any more.

The March 9 handshake seems to have changed the political dynamics and is threatening to be the political deal-breaker for the DP.

On Tuesday, prominent leaders from Mt Kenya East, while pledging their unsolicited support for Raila should he contest in 2022, sent out a stinging rebuke of Ruto and his lieutenants in the the latest signs of discordant tunes from the region.

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And in an apparent rejoinder to the changing tune, a leading musician from the region has released a protest song against the status quo that has gone viral.

The new track, Mbari ya Kimendero (A Family of Kimendero) by Muigai Wa Njoroge claims that one family and close friends have benefitted from the Mau Mau sweat to the detriment of the poor masses who have been reduced to paupers.

“The curse of Mau Mau still lives up to date, let the children of Mau Mau continue suffering,” Muigai warns in the song.

The song already has 130,000 views since it was uploaded five days ago.

“Oppressors must pay attention to what I am saying,” he says.

The song believed to be fired by support for DP Ruto comes weeks after another musician, Kimani wa Turacco, released the track, Hatuna Deni (We Owe No One Any Debt).

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Njoroge’s viral hit is the first piece to openly criticise the status quo since former President Mwai Kibaki took over power in 2022. It comes against the backdrop of murmurs that the ongoing political realignments are designed to preserve or benefit the famous political families and alienate ‘The Hustler’, as Ruto is called in a reference to his humble beginnings.

The musician dismisses the handshake, warning that the country is not on the right path. “Your death awaits you in India. You shall live and come back dead,” he sings, warning beneficiaries of the status quo that they will be diminished.

As if mocking the unity deal, Njoroge sings that for the poor masses “peace will be a story to you since you’ll never experience it.”

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“You will go to India and come back dead,” he says, a euphemism to mean “die of cancer”.

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On Tuesday, at least 12 former MPs from Meru, Tharaka Nithi and Embu counties paid a courtesy call on Raila. Afterward,they pledged their allegiance to Raila and support for the Building Bridges Initiative with Uhuru. They also took a dig at those opposed to the lifestyle audit and directly attacked Ruto’s allies in the region, code-named Tanga Tanga.

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“Although Raila has not declared he will run in 2022, this group is telling him should he decide to run, he shall have our unqualified support,” the leaders said in a joint statement read by former Tigania West MP Kilemi Mwiria.

Mwiria was an assistant minister during the Kibaki administration and President Kenyatta’s education adviser during his first term. He ran for Meru governor last year and lost to Kiraitu Murungi.

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