Kindiki will be the voice of reason in government

Deputy President Kithure Kindiki during swearing-in at KICC, Nairobi, on November 1, 2024. [File, Standard]

I was Speaker of the Senate at a precarious time in the country's history of collapsing political love affairs. It had begun well when the two men, President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto had a camaraderie much smoother than the Gregory Rasputin and Nicholas II's mysterious relationship in pre-socialistic Russia. The end was, however, as frosty and painful as that of another political love affair - King Henry VIII of England and his most loyal servant Thomas Moore.

As a student of political science and a latter-day practitioner, I had grown to understand that power was dark, it eats partakers into it who treat it casually. That is what happened a year or so after 2018 when Uhuru had a handshake with his political rival dealing a blow to his Jubilee relations. A time came in the heat of that political upheaval that the DP's allies had to be removed from the senate leadership to give way to Uhuru's loyalists.