I ask this question having already seen what this man is made of. Kalonzo has shown his true colors and they are not pretty. When president Moi attempted to impose Kenyatta Jr. on our good nation, through his failed project, we saw what we thought was a new Stephen. He seemed to have seen the light and come out from behind the veil that had blinded our leaders and covered the country. We even thought he was ready for primetime and before Raila led us down the Tosha road, we thought mmmmh …. interesting …. Kalonzo has grown himself a pair of nuts, we like those nuts, this could just be the guy. We even shouted his name “Kalonzo” “Kalonzo” hoping we could drown the tosha drum beat.
Looking back, I see a number of judgment errors on our part; Kalonzo was a strong defender of KANU and the KANU record of corruption. Kalonzo defended the man, the system and the regime; he fought tooth and nail and only parted ways with Toroitich when Toro could not be of personal political gain to him. Naively, we may have seen this stand against the status quo as Mr. Kalonzo reflecting our values, our ideals, our hopes but we were mistaken. Kalonzo may have excellent strategy and political expedience, he may have nine lives and he knows how to make Kalonzo relevant beyond his support, but I am now convinced he is a just a politician, a self interested politician, I will even go further and say a selfish politician ‘bila msimamo’.
One may say, KANU years are KANU years, and that you can pin that KANU monkey on a lot of our politicians - Ruto, Mudavadi, Kibaki, Nyachae the list is long and I agree, we do not know about these individuals, but Kalonzo is now exposed. Let us look at his record, his post KANU record. Kalonzo seems to never have gone past the Kibaki tosha moment and like a scavenger with no standard he has waited for Raila to toss him a bone. Knowing that Raila was the wind behind Kibaki’s sail home, Kalonzo waited for Raila to make his Tosha 2 declaration. To earn him some marks, Kalonzo even tried to be on the right side of history during the Referendum, and Kenyans, wanting to believe that Kalonzo’s conversion was real assigned their values to his actions. He even would have died for Raila at one time. An interesting turn of events happened once Kalonzo knew that the declaration and impending coronation was not forthcoming, with nothing to personally gain, he orchestrated night time burglary, of the ODM Kenya registration papers, with his accomplices Daniel Maanzo and Julia Ojiambo, thinking that, the papers equal votes (This is how far the concepts of democracy are foreign to this self interested politician) Kalonzo was ready for the big time. No agenda, no vision, no following, by hook or crook, or what he called a miracle, he was going to be President. Well, we know how that story ends, a distant third, single digit percentage, was the value people assigned to his antics.
But wait, Kenyan politics has a funny way of rewarding losers, I just read that the hyena has his bone and is proudly gnawing on it. With the patience of a crocodile, this dinosaur has reinvented himself not only as pro Kibaki, but as his VP. Hongera Bwana Kilonzo, but it must be amnesia on your part or are you counting on amnesia on our part. Do you remember your own words “I will die for Raila” Do your own words mean anything? Or is it too much to expect some consistency on your part? Three, no even two months ago, you were Kibaki’s harshest critic. Where did this new found love come from? Learn a lesson from your predecessor Uncle Moody. He was hailed as chairman of the Summit at one point, he now is on the political trash heap, rejected by his own.
I am not disappointed that Kalonzo would take the position offered to him by this illegitimate government; I am disgusted, that to this date he has not stated his position on the flawed election. He has not condemned the rigging; he has not called it free and fair, he has not even put forward a road map for peace. Like the ruthless opportunist he is, Kalonzo has no stand on this loss of property, life or democracy and if asked about it, I am sure he will give you the answer that gives him the most personal gain. Everything else is just trivial. When Kalonzo was asked if he was surprised with the appointment, he said “I not surprised by the appointment,” “I have been consulting before the announcement.” This man will use any situation for personal gain.
