Kufa makanga (tout)!’ may have sounded ingenious to its authors, but the angst therein exposes the dearth of patriotism.
The vehicle has passengers who don’t have to die when the tout and the driver are executed.
That some defence strategist had the audacity to suggest execution of the driver and the tout exposes an obsession with self-interest.
The impeachment wasn’t a call for the execution of the two clashing state officers.
A powerful force placed another officer’s neck on the chopping board. Competition about whose neck should be sliced first sounds like trying to outshine the boss — mistake number one.
Stars are bright but they do not compete with the sun.
They hold back when the sun rises.
They know their place in the constellation.
But even as the beginning of the end was on, the DP was still fighting like a buffalo, spewing vindictives against sponsored tormentors.
Nothing could silence the raging buffalo — mistake number two.
The DP missed the Kondraty Ryleyev lesson from the Decembarist Uprising in Russia of 1825.
The dissident could have saved his neck if he didn’t blame the broken noose on the incompetence of the Russian regime.
The less you say, the less risk you run of saying something foolish, even dangerous. The DP is blamed for expediting his ejection. They said his statements were ultra-divisive.
The impeachment should caution state officers who put personal interest ahead of public good.
It should be a lesson for those who equate self-inflicted torment with ethnic good. The call for double execution showed utter lack of Solomonic sagacity.
A tooth for a tooth makes the country toothless, and an eye for an eye makes everyone blind.
The call to ‘Kill the driver! Kill the tout’ is diversionary. Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua isn’t the only offending state officer. But he is the subject of an impeachment motion that sailed through the National Assembly last week.
Let another impeachment motion come, now that a section of the public is thirsty for blood. The DP is before the Senate this week. He has filed cases in court in anticipation of a dead-end. The fight is messy.
The fightback oozes revenge and vengeance. The eviction has gone too far, it won’t go back, yet the DP is still fighting like a buffalo soldier. He craves company.
The infighting in the Executive would be messier if the DP survives the noose, now that he won’t resign to fight another day. Many lessons have been missed in the process. But other state officers can draw survival lessons from the Gachagua eviction.
The eviction looked unstoppable once a decision was made to eject. It didn’t have to come to this, but it did because Gachagua didn’t know how to stop the cannibalism that had the backing of a dear friend and brother in power.
It’s only Gachagua who could have saved Gachagua.
Here is the thing: When you rise, don’t discard the ladder. You may need it on your way down.