Allan Asenji

RAILA Odinga was the owner of Maandamano. I said "was". Raila odinga nearly patented Maandamano. Raila had the switch for Maandamano -to switch them on and off. Raila Odibga would never imagine sharing the power of Maandamano and the glory thereof, with anyone else. Raila used Maandamano to negotiate his cake - I hear he asked 3 dollars for every vote he got. That was until three weeks ago when the country witnessed the biggest, cleanest, smartest, most organised and most successful Maandamano without the knowledge, nor mobilisation nor approval of Raila Odinga. That was like shaving the hair or Samson in the bible. It completely made Raila voiceless and irrelevant in the streets. That his own grand children (girls) could tell him to stay at home and watch as they executed what he always thought noone else could execute, was a soft insult to him. That the grand children could force a whole president to hurriedly rush to some makeshift Internet debates on X and withstand their insults, as he struggled to explain himself, was Literally making Raila's version of Maandamano irrelevant. Raila thought he was the only one who could get zakayo down the tree. Beaten at it, Raila had to quickly rush to resuscitate himself. That's why yesterday he was heard saying, "we have stopped Maandamano to give room for dialogue". He still imagined the demos of the past few days were his. He still thought they were Azimio-generated. He still thinks he is the only Maandamano Chief Executive Officer. He can't imagine anything else.

I HAVE typed this before, more than 5 times. And I know it will happen in my lifetime or when am gone. 1. We should have 8 Counties (the former privinces). The have governors. Do away with the senate. 2. The 47 counties should be the constituencies. 3. All the constituencies should be wards. That means all what you call Kiambu MPs should be MCAs meeting in Kiambu. 4. All the wards should be Village assemblies. Kiruga Thuku and his 4 colleagues in Othaya Constituency should be meeting in Othaya once a month. Infact MPs and MCA and those Village Assemnlies should be part-time. Ask those who were here in 60s, 70s and 80s, the work of councillors was part-time. Someone in the US was shocked to see a full hotel inside Parliament, which is not even open to the public. That one should have been the first to go up in flames.