Here is Miguna Miguna's uninspiring message

Is it just me or does anyone else find Miguna Miguna’s message utterly uninspiring?

Uninspiring is an understatement. Untrustworthy is more like it. Fear, even. Miguna came to the limelight close to five years ago after breaking ranks with his boss Raila Odinga. Miguna promised him “I will write a book”. A grand exposé, he promised. It was a threat. And indeed, he delivered. Two books, actually. “Peeling Back the Mask” and a sequel, “Kidneys for the King”.

Did he snitch? Was it damaging? Hardly. But some might argue that the vocal lawyer come politician did cast a shadow in Mr. Odinga’s 2013 presidential bid. That’s debatable. Since then this twin-named fellow has been regular pundit in Kenya’s political affairs. Popular talk shows on the mainstream media and his twitter account have served as outlets for his message of dissatisfaction with the current crop of leadership.

How mediocre they all are. How incompetent... How corrupt... How weak...How uneducated and foolish… These are just but some of his revered adjectives against them. He easily passes off as an equal opportunity offender. He is campaigning to be the next governor of Nairobi. Like the rest of the anti-establishment flock, I agree that the affairs of Nairobi in particular and this country in general are grotesquely mismanaged.

America has Donald trump, Kenya has Miguna Miguna.

You might ask why, after all, he’s never been tested. He needs not to. Mr. Miguna possesses the classic symptoms of a narcissist. My Oxford English dictionary defines it as: [noun] Extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one’s own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type. You don’t need a class in psychology to see that. He’s loud and self-centered.

Mr. Miguna consistently antagonizes everyone who dares challenge him, turning debates into personal fights, calling every critic “pro-establishment” and guilty of pupating the interests of their CORD or JAP masters. The other day he uploaded a picture of a dilapidated Nairobi primary school on Twitter and blamed governor for the state of affairs. As it stands, Mr. Kidero and City Hall supplies an excellent cast of villains, and they must always be called out to account up until Kenyans send them packing by 9 a.m. on August 8th next year.

Here is where Mr. Miguna was, and still is, wrong. Education is a function of the national government. He should have called Education CS or the president to account, not Mr. Kidero. When he was corrected for his ignorance on the said matter, he snapped into empty rhetoric.

Some people might argue that policy specifics don’t matter as long as a politician has the right character and values. As it stands, I don’t agree. I think the policy specifics shine significant light on a politician’s character itself.

Saying on national TV that he be hanged at Uhuru Park if he fails to deliver on his promises is draconian and silly. What constitution would mandate Kenyans to do so? If he expects Kenyans to break the law to punish him, what does that say about him? He calls Mr. Sonko an “uneducated man”, “devoid of reasoning capability” for his barbaric ways of dealing with issues like throwing stones at land grabbers, issuing handouts blah… blah… blah... But his latest blabs about being hanged at Uhuru Park demonstrate that he and Mr. Sonko are identical like his first and last names. And with that, for Mr. Miguna, the constitution might as well be the tissue paper.