Kalonzo Musyoka’s son,Kennedy hated politics. It was something of an irony considering that his father, former Vice-President and Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka, is one of the country’s longest serving politicians.
It was always his dream was to be an ambassador, even though he dreaded the bureaucratic route of rising to the top of the diplomacy ladder.
The many friends He knew back in high school and college years ventured into music. There is a day a friend borrowed his equipment and messed it up.That made him so mad and had even vowed to quit music.
He also had aspirations of deejaying, and even saved up and bought a set of Pioneer CDJ-800 decks for this.‘.
It took a long time before he started to soften his stand on Kenyan politics.
“Before I went to study abroad, I hated Kenyan politics because I thought it was too personality-based. However, as I was studying it in Australia, I realised that what I hated was the way we practised politics at the time,” said Kennedy.
His notion of local politics was largely based on Western standards where, he says, “a lot is based on party discipline and ideology”.
His view on politics appears to have changed after the 32-year-old became one of the youngest members representing Kenya in the East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA).
He also spent two months talking to openly hostile parliamentary select committee members because the political environment during the 2017 General Election was toxic. The process for nominations kept stalling, but eventually he sailed through.
“An MP told me that he would vote for me but I would have to visit his constituents often. It’s one of the many promises I made while campaigning that I am trying to keep,” he says. In November 2017, he was confirmed as an EALA Member of Parliament.
