Saturday 29th dawn meets mobilized youths at strategic points waiting for matatus to felly them to Ihura Stadium for Baba’s visit in Forthall, the cradle of Gikuyu community.
They are to fill the air with vuvuzela sounds, jump up and down and shout their voices to hoarseness in support of Baba. So they are handed between Ksh 400-500 each to arm their stomachs and lubricate their voices to maximum sonority.
On converging at the stadium, they realize there are gargantuan sized supporters who speak the Lake region language rallied from Kibera. But the indigenes are hustlers who don't let anything smelling like money pass over, so they don't mind the back up.
In the name of “kupanga kazi” Ihura stadium is filled with journalists with their video cameras ready to capture especially the loudest motivated birds of the same feather perform their drama as expected.
Baba bloggers are very apt to send those images to their social media pages and prove to the world how Baba has gripped the mountain’s support firm in the bowels.
But in reality, Baba and his Azimio team realize that other than the deflating paid-for-excitement, there’s nothing else to bank on.
Baba is no smiles as he looks with a flabbergasted look at Murang'a Leaders who have let down the Azimio Event in Murang'a like Peter Kenneth, Nduati Ngugi, Sabina Chege, Cs Macharia, PS Wairagu, Muturi Kigano, Sen Kembi Gitura, businessman Peter Munga and others.
Peter Kenneth ambition of making a running mate dwiddles drastically as attention drifted to hullabaloos caused by Azimio aspirants who are paying goons outside the gate to cheer them up once their turn to hold the mic comes.
Sabina Chege feels the heat as it comes to grudgingly dawn on her that her deputy president vision has crumbled as furiously as rock boulders down Mt. Kenya escarpments like she’s still insecure and wanton on whether to run for FortHall office or her matrimonial’s Kigumo CDF office.
Other powerful people like CS Macharia take the cue with forced humour but Water PS Wairagu does not seem disturbed even after the CS cut him 2 minutes before he could speak of his gubernatorial manifesto. Perhaps he’s eyeing the event from bottom-up!
But wait until evening when reverse drama takes the center stage! Most of the mobilisers are drunk and complaining of not receiving their other after-work-(not)well-done portion.
Yes, including MCAs who mobilized for the attendance. In fact those MCAs have threatened to camp naked at Ihura until their money is paid! The disgruntled youths are not only hunting down their greedy mobilisers who escaped with their money but also vowing to bring Baba down.
So the whole Azimio nation thinks the climb to the mountain top is getting too easy. At least the pictures say so. Do they say, “kwa ground mambo ni different?”
The pen of G.K. writes from Metumi Moments Journal Editors desk.
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