Oscar Sudi, the Member of Parliament for Kapseret in Uasin Gishu county is a reflection of bad-mouthed loyalist politician who doesn’t consider the weight of his words prior to uttering them.
However, the most recent hate speech video will you leave one wondering if Kenya would develop with such propagandist.
He is heard talking of unity between the Kikuyu and Kalenjin tribe Unity in Jubilee, that the handshake politics is trying to kill the unity between the two communities.
This is perhaps why he has been loved and hated in equal measure.
Sudi, a close ally of Deputy President William Ruto, has in recent times stunned his constituents as he rocks in money, power and fame.
The businessman turned politician has been nicknamed ‘Sonko of Eldoret’ by the locals. His incredible rise from a charcoal seller and a makanga to a filthy rich magnate have been compared to that of DP Ruto.
Whenever he is on the mic, the Kapseret MP stages a Ruto incarnate show, except that the DP is still around. His torso juts forward, his biceps almost forming and painting a picture of a man in perpetual war.
Whenever he is about to hit the bull’s eye, he feigns a scratch on the left temple of his head, then delivers the blow. Twitching his right hand, sometimes ominously, you would think he is addressing a massive political rally, only that it is a presser.
His knack for taking on anyone or anything standing in the way of the DP’s political ambitions is out of this world. And the way he doles it out is unique to himself — ruthlessness, uncivil, unmeasured, and unbound.
You only need to listen to a recent clip where he cannibalised his own Jubilee Party Secretary General Raphael Tuju, calling him a scrape of a man. The attack left little to imagine about Sudi’s claim to political courtesy.
Cleverly embracing his illiterate self but also standing up to the charges against him, Sudi shifted the debate to the raucous but usually clueless mobs who throng political rallies.
“Do I look like an illiterate? Even when you look at me, do I? And when I was asking for votes in Kapseret did you hear me say that I was a professor? I begged for votes as a hustler and was elected,” he told a public event in October 2016.
His recent utterances against other tribes have definitely angered Kenyans.
For all his zealotry to the DP’s cause, Sudi was — like all puppets who are first mouthed to be last swallowed — almost dropped in the run up to the 2017 elections.
Together with Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago, he stood up against his party, blaming cartels around the DP’s office and daring them.
At one point he supported a Kanu candidate in a by-election to the chagrin of his boss. When the dust had settled, Sudisupplicated himself before the DP and begged for forgiveness.