WHY MOI MADE ME SPEAKER
FROM THE MEMOIRS OF FRANCIS KAPARO’S BOOK, CALMING THE STORMS. However, it was the late Hon John Moika Kasaine Lelampaa, a member for Samburu East who captured the mood of the moment. He edged to where i stood alone and said, ” I think you were misquoted. ‘ I cant misquote myself!’ I curtly replied….
WHY MOI PICKED ME TO BE SPEAKER
EXERPTS FROM FRANCIS OLE KAPARO BOOK: CALMING THE STORMS On December 1991, i had gone against the grain when i was still in the rather junior post of Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Labor. There at the KANU Delegates Conference, i was the foolhardy one who went against the grain and urged President Moi…
HOW RAILA HID THE HANDSHAKE FROM US
EXCERPTS FROM MUSALIA MUDAVADI’S BOOK , SOARING ABOVE THE STORMSOF PASSION Unbeknown to the rest of us, Raila had entered into a conversation with President Uhuru Kenyatta on the swearing in and on the election fiasco of the previous year. It must have been a closely guarded secret. There was not even the slightest hint…
RAILA SWEARING IN DRAMA
EXCERPTS FROM MUSALIA MUDAVADI’S BOOK SOARING ABOVE THE STORMS OF PASSION Raila left for the United Kingdom and United States for about a week. It was a personal private trip which he used to hold consultations here and there about NASA. On 17th November, several of NASA supporters went to receive him at the Airport…
HOW RAILA CAUGHT US OFFGUARD AT UHURU PARK
MUSALIA MUDAVADI’S BOOK: SOARING ABOVE THE STORMS OF PASSION. On 25th October 2017, a day before the repeat poll, our supporters began turning up very early in the morning for our much anticipated rally at Uhuru park. The moment of truth was here. The NASA principals and a few other political party notables assembled in…
HOW I WAS CALLED A DEMON BY UHURU KENYATTA
MUSALIA MUDAVADI’S BOOK, SOARING ABOVE THE STORM OF PASSION I was surprised one morning to learn that i had unexpected visitors. Our domestic detail announced that Uhuru and Ruto were outside. They wanted to see me. I ushered them in at once. We exchanged niceties and talks for a while over a cup of tea…
WHY WILLIAM RUTO LEFT ODM
MUSALIA MUDAVADI’S BOOK: SOARING ABOVE THE STORMS OF PASSION In December 2009, Ocampo unsealed the famous envelope. It was dynamite. Three people had been named on either side of PNU/ODM divide. On the ODM side was Cabinet Ministers Henry Kosgei, William Ruto as well as a radio journalist Joshua Sang. On the PNU side was…
HOW ELECTIONS WERE STOLEN UNDER OUR NOSE
The Presidential elections results started streaming in very well from the the very outset. The margin was quite substantive. We led the PNU by upwards of million of votes. Then suddenly, hell began breaking loose. The figures started looking very strange, coming mostly from the Mt Kenya region. The E.C.K Chairman Samuel Kivuitu began getting…
How I Was Elected Speaker of The 7th Parliament
It was at the beginning of 1993 that i vied for the position that was to give me a National Profile. The process of electing the Speaker of the National Assembly was intense and bruising. To be elected Speaker under the standing orders, one was required to garner two-thirds of the votes in the house….
HOW KALONZO RAN WITH OUR CERTIFICATE
All eyes were now on the 2007 elections. on our side , nobody clearly declared that they would go for the Presidency. It was being hypothesized outside ODM circles that Raila would again play the role of a King maker. Kalonzo Musyoka was clearly ahead of Kibaki in the poles. There was a narrative being…
