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Mutahi Ngunyi: Raila is a turncoat revolutionary

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 Raila is a turn-coat revolutionary say Ngunyi

As narrated to John Lawrence

Raila is a turn-coat revolutionary. When I was 19, Raila became my hero after Ngugi Wa Thiong’o went into exile.

As boys in University, we were looking for an ideologue to interpret Moi to us. And Raila did it perfectly. I supported him during the post-election violence in 2008 and was placed as the 9th most wanted Kikuyu traitor in a Mungiki list. During this period, I sat with him three times giving counsel on how to deal with Kibaki.

But what changed my mind about Raila was this time when I took President Kagame’s Senior Advisor, Prof David Himbara to see him. Prof Himbara was in Nairobi to interview three presidential advisors I had recruited for Kagame, including Dr David Ndii. He wanted to consult with Raila over the unfolding situation in Kenya, but also get him to propose one or two advisors.

After our deliberations, Raila o­ ered Himbara his entire ‘think-tank’. And then we asked him why he was giving up such an elegant group of people days before the Peace Deal was signed. He insinuated that he would replace them with foreigners. And sure enough the Prime

Minister’s o? ce was ran by French, German, English and other Europeans as though the African thinkers could not manage his a­ airs.

This was not the Raila I knew. After handling power for a while as Prime Minister, he gradually evolved into a ‘turn-coat revolutionary.’ I could not reconcile the Raila in power with the Raila in the trenches.

 

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