Things that can make your man cry

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A Kamba MP recently said ‘kings don’t cry’ as he enviously attacked Kenya’s most progressive governor.
He is wrong! Kings cry. Bill Clinton was often moved to tears, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia always carried a hankie in case a fit of tears hit him, DP Ruto has shaken with sobs in church (and when little girls do praise poetry for him) and Obama let a tear roll down his cheek when his grandma died a day before he first became President of America.

I am in Meru West Wind hotel as I write this, and last night I welled up remembering that I was in this very hotel two years, one month and twelve days ago when my brother fell ill in Nairobi, was taken to hospital and passed away there, two weeks later. Governor Alf Mutua attended a fundraiser recently, and because he is a man of heart, he is a king who weeps for his people when political bastards are trying their damnest to keep him from getting piped water to poor homesteads in Masaku.