I take this earliest opportunity to send my condolences and messages of good will to former Première as he recuperates from Monday’s caning. It was painful, barbaric, embarrassing and awful. I have watched that clip again and again, torn between laughing and feeling bad. The mzee snaked his way in the crowd like a U.S SEAL connoisseur unnoticed. He then repositioned himself two feet from Agwambo, scanned the environment and then professionally chose the yummiest part to hit. Tinga was all this time swallowed in sweet hip shakings and dance with the Mzee’s wife to notice the looming lynching.
Like a skilled Moran, the Mzee bit his lower lip, raised the 5 kg bakora 8 Kilometers high and then descended it at a speed of 65 Km/hr. It landed on R.A.O’s bend back with a thud. Mheashimiwa suppressed a scream and jumped up akisugua the dented area.
Meanwhile Governor Mvurya was also receiving his dosage of ‘tatu bora’ from the kamzee.
As expected, Jubilee supporters were celebrating all over. They tossed chang’aa tins and send each other congratulatory messages. They even recommended Mzee Mudzomba be added to the list of MauMau fighters. Others baptized him the government chief whip. CORD supporters on the other hand went underground as soon as the bamboo cane landed, and I haven’t heard from any of them. The few who have talked have condemned the act, calling it jubilee orchestrated and a signal that RAO is not safe.
Sisemi kitu.
I must confess however, I have been tempted to think this mzee who caned Agwambo is the one who wrote “Fimbo Chapa” lyrics to DNA. Remember that the National Anthem was written by another mzee from the same village (just guessing) The unanswered question however is, why did Mzee Mudzomba cane R.A.O?
I have my opinion.
The first an obvious one is the story about the wife. Let’s us assume the man is insecure, over protective and with ego. He couldn’t stand the sight of his wife shaking her butt so willingly to another man. He feared RAO and Mvurya will chapa the wife with their ’fimbo’. He had to tell them to
keep their “Fimbos” away from his wife. The best way to do it was to hit them with a 'Fimbo’. A bakora on Agwambo’s back was better than Agwambo’s ‘bakora’ in her wife.
I also again want to think that he didn’t actually cane RAO. He didn’t intend to either. He was just dancing and waving his fimbo in
the air when he tripped due to old age and fell, unfortunately on Raila’s back. It was just
a slight accident, where nobody was hurt.
The government, media and enemies of development as expected anyway exaggerated it, making it appear as if Raila was caned, beaten, thrashed and trodden like a Burukenge. Msheew!
The other close reason may be to do with the Referendum campaign. The signatures were being collected and mzee wanted to sign. I think he confused where the signatures were to be put, and he thought it was on Raila’s back. I don’t know why he thought thrashing Raila was equivalent to signing on the referendum, maybe confusion of old age sgain. Or maybe he wanted to just tap Raila on the back and request the Signature paper to sign. The tapping turned out to be a bit painfull. Maybe. Anyway come Mzee’s canes come Duale’s
insults, referendum Lazima.
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