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On Thursday June 23, 2015, Patrick Kenya, a resident of Kisumu County in the Maseno area, accused me of "preaching wine and drinking water" regarding my response to Kabage Karanja's comments on the matter of the appointment of the Governor of Central Bank.
After reading Patrick Kenya's piece, I literally failed to see how his vendetta about the Vihiga/Kisumu boundary relates to the issues Kabage and I were discussing. The history of Maseno is known to most of us: Kenya has no monopoly of knowledge on this matter. And it is a legitimate issue to raise on its own right without piggy-backing on a subject matter of "inclusivity" Kenya seems not to have much grounding in. Let me be brief on the issue of the Kisumu/Vihiga boundary on which he justifies his wrath.
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