PAKA OLOKORE RADO GUENDGI? KOSO EN ANG'O SIAYA? ---THE ROGUE CAT THAT TURNED TO CANNIBALISE ITS OWN?
William Oduol started out in the ODM and
won the primaries that decided the nominee for the general election.
He was rigged out. Then he decamped to an alternative party and
the electorate gave him the thumbs up at the general election. Again he was dishonestly edged out. That is, the Siaya electorate have
endorsed him twice in this past year, but at every turn he has found Raila's henchmen [
ka gigumone e wang'ayo] working evil in his way.
Twice, the will of the electorate has been thwarted in Siaya. ODM running things. No sign of TNA at the wheels turning.
Now let us think just a bit, not much, just a bit. A wide cross section of Luo nationalism has been wailing and yammering all around the globe, tearfully grieving and shaking their heads in disbelief at
Gikuyu chicanery and innate impunity, which has blatantly stolen two successive victories from their Raila. ---
Nyadiriyo duto maluwore! Okuyugi Jojuogi! Okuyugi le!But, caught pants down, how do I Luoman save my dignity?
How do we Jaluos explain away Raila's
chicanery and innate impunity which has blatantly stolen two successive victories from William Oduol in Siaya? [Remember I asked for just a bit of thinking, not much, just a bit ---[Hard thinking will necessitate we delve into the pitfalls of nationalism, whereby we will identify the blind-spots of this consciousness, delusions, especially when it develops a narrative constructing the identity of the enemy ---
atwara, Jokarabwon and the rest! But for our present purposes I believe even minor thinking will do! After all people like Orengo and Midiwo are just residues of a glorious past, and their primitive utterances can be tackled by minor thinking!]
Well, perhaps we Jaluos are not against rigging in principle. We are only against rigging which double-crosses Raila
. Everybody else can get rigged out, we do not care. We are consummate hypocrites, which makes good mercenaries, like politicians and lawyers of course! Normal human beings guided only by self-interest ---exactly like we say of the Gikuyu!
----- [just a bit of thinking I said!]
The problem is that
others too have a constructed narrative of the Luos as the enemy, delusional yes, but effective in its own mobilisation. So when Raila does everything possible to derail the electoral will of Nyanza and his home turf Siaya, kills
a vision of the future, Oduol, but asserts the
retrogressive past, Rasanga, and yet beats the drum of progressive politics at the national podium/platforom, he becomes a laughing stock to THE OTHERS --for all his enigmatic record as a reformer.
To the others, it becomes crystal clear, that when the chips are down, he is a barbarian chieftain bent on ruthlessly purging emerging talent, and as such, I can understand
b6k of Jukwaa when he gloats
thus:
thanks God, Uhuru beat him by hook or crook I better the son of Jomo for us all.
This is a sentiment colleagues and friends
from other ethnic groups have confided in me,
''that from common sense, and objectively speaking, they looked at the ODM rigging in Nyanza and decided to abandon Raila, for all his progressive outlook. Let him lead you and your fellow Luos in Nyanza to a more fishy paradise! We will do just fine with Uhuru. He is conservative, but he will let more talent rise to the surface, and sycophancy will not be the key quality!'' Raila is all out to wipe out Oduol in Siaya, going by the energy he put in the campaigns. He can yes, I think. But in my estimation it is the demented rage of
Tshaka Zulu in grief.
A once great and dynamic King who has lost his mind, lost his way, and in an infantile helplessness and grieving depression, is destroying the productive and regenerative faculties of his community. A Pyrrhic victory for Siaya should Rasanga win.
Siaya is currently a rotting compost heap, good manure, but for which kind of flower?
. Everybody else can get rigged out, we do not care. We are consummate hypocrites, which makes good mercenaries, like politicians and lawyers of course! Normal human beings guided only by self-interest ---exactly like we say of the Gikuyu!
thus: thanks God, Uhuru beat him by hook or crook I better the son of Jomo for us all.