The $9m raised from the Presidential Ball last night can easily fix Masvingo and Kariba State of Disasters if the Party scales down its annual gathering and address national emergencies.
It will be a people centered gesture of the highest order .
Hear Hear .
On Christmas Day 1997, the people of Gatundu South woke up to a miracle. A car had plunged into the River Thiririka, conveniently located right next to Uhuru Kenyatta’s home. There were bloodstains on the bank, a weeping nephew on the news, and a missing peasant candidate named Moses Mwihia. It was intensely emotional. The only problem was that the "corpse" was alive, the blood was from a local slaughterhouse, and the whole affair was a masterclass in political gaslighting.
Moi had pulled out all the stops to ensure Uhuru was the front-runner for the Gatundu South parliamentary seat. But the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. It all began in a Thika bar late one night in October 1997. Beer crates were stacked, nyama choma was devoured, and the mouths of wise men were spewing a winning conspiracy. The agenda? Destroying the political career of the 36-year-old heir to the throne, Uhuru Kenyatta.
The plot was lifted straight from a 1992 playbook. In Gachoka, a DP candidate named Norman Nyagah had "vanished" days before the election, blamed KANU, and won by a sympathy landslide. Mwihia’s team, including his nephew Samuel Mwihia Kariuki and a sharp young man named Moses Kuria, decided to pull the same trick but with more theatrical flair.
They just needed a scapegoat, and they picked the Kenyatta family and Daniel arap Moi's regime. The script was simple: tell the world that a powerful, aristocratic cabal had kidnapped a poor peasant who only wanted to liberate the people, killed him, and thrown his body into a river. It was a bold lie.
The great family was already deliciously divided. Ngengi Muigai was supporting his cousin Uhuru, but Ngengi's brother was backing the "sinner" Mwihia. The conspirators knew they had to strike before the final weekend before Christmas.
Kimani Muigai, a neighbor of the Kenyattas who had shared many muratina drinking sprees with Uhuru, caught wind of the plot. He tried to warn Kenyatta, but in a pre-cellphone era, he couldn't reach him. Instead, he told a Kenyatta cousin, who promptly snitched to the wrong side. Uhuru remained blissfully unaware of the tsunami heading his way.
On December 24, 1997, the trap snapped shut. Samuel Kariuki called the media with a mouth-watering Christmas scoop: his uncle Moses was missing, last seen meeting civic candidates, and had received threats from "powerful KANU people." It was a Christmas gift to every bored newsroom in Kenya. While politicians, thieves, and prostitutes took their holiday break, the "peasant candidate" became a national martyr.
Mwihia’s operatives visited a slaughterhouse at night to collect a bucket of animal blood. They found a car resembling Mwihia’s and dumped it in the river. When Christmas morning dawned, Gatundu exploded into instantaneous pandemonium.
"After killing J.M. Kariuki and Robert Ouko, now KANU has killed our own Moses Mwihia! Ngai!"
The anger was a living, breathing beast. The location of the fake killing was chosen with surgical cruelty: Ichaweri, the most populous area in Gatundu and home to the region's elite, right next to Uhuru's nerve center. The people abandoned their Christmas festivities and redirected their rage from anti-Moi to anti-Kenyatta. Uhuru's posters were defaced. He had gone from having 30 days, to three days, to suddenly just one day to fight a tidal wave of sympathy votes. Meanwhile, Samuel Kariuki, a gifted actor, maintained a flawless pose of grief, feeding the media a daily diet of sorrow. 1/2
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It is impossible to justify spending $2M USD on a church while leaving Kariba disaster survivors to scrape by on $100usd . This decision lays bare a government that uses public funds to buy favor rather than protect its people. When survival is priced at a hundred dollars, the moral compass of the state is entirely lost🚮🚮
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