Tell 'em, Moses, we have evolved from subjects of the Queen to Lady Meg
Peter Kimani
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Peter Kimani
| Sep 26, 2025
Prezzo Bill Ruto was, or still is, in New York, it’s hard to keep track of the man, where he travelled to benchmark the wide walkways in the Big Apple. One might wonder what is novel in such thoroughfares, but it does make sense because most walkways in Nairobi have either been grabbed, are blocked, or are decrepit.
The other reason is that Prezzo Ruto has been commuting atop an SUV for such a long time that he risks cramping in the leg. I am not sure why he wouldn’t walk here at home, but I assume “the ground” is hostile, if you believe his impeached former Deputy, Rigathi Gachagua aka Riggy G.
Talking of Riggy G! He has grown so abrasive in recent days, the soft demeanour that we saw during his impeachment, looking frail and vanquished, has been replaced by a ferocious man who says he is dying to tussle with his former boss.
Riggy G has declared he will run for the high office in 2027, despite his impeachment. So he must know something that we don’t. I suppose there’s so much we don’t know, as Raila Odinga aka Tinga aka Baba, hinted this week.
After a year of denial, Baba finally admitted that his party and the ruling coalition UDA did enter into an MoU to help steer the State when it tottered in the aftermath of Gen-Z protests. Reason? Baba could not countenance a power grab, a huge climb-down from his younger self who plotted the overthrow of former Prezzo Daniel arap Moi’s administration.
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We have no idea how and when Baba arrived at his Damascus moment. But the man who definitely entered Damascus recently is Moses Kuria, first by resigning from government, where he was serving as senior presidential advisor, after a short-lived tenure in the Cabinet.
Like the Biblical Moses, Kuria has determined that only truth shall set him free. He says the true power behind the throne for the past two years was one and only Meg Whitman, the immediate former US ambassador to Kenya.
So, it looks like Baba was right when he admonished Lady Meg for speaking out of turn, reminding her that Kenya was not an American colony. Now, good old Moses, good because he’s more refined than his younger self, who spoke in crude terms like urinating in public spheres, says, as we suspected, Lady Meg was running the country.
I have no idea how, but I suspect all she needed was a laptop with good, steady WiFi, before she started issuing commands, as though she were running eBay. If my suspicions are right, then quite a lot of things that didn’t make sense then, are gaining fresh insights.
First off, the lifting of GMOs that Prezzo Ruto signed off within days of taking power, and whose biggest beneficiaries are US biotech firms that can’t wait to disrupt African agriculture, so that the seeds that we need to grow our food can only come from them.
Or the Haitian misadventure, to use Wiperman Kalonzo Musyoka’s term, when our forces were deployed under a cloud of ignominy, in exchange for the Photo-Op that Prezzo Ruto secured at the White House, sitting in the presidential seat and grinning from ear-to-ear.
All that, good old Moses is saying, was Lady Meg’s bidding. She ordered what she wanted done, and Prezzo Ruto complied. As to why Moses, the truth-teller kept mum all this while, I suspect he was waiting until Prezzo Ruto was in the land of the free. The optics had to be right.
If that is all true, and I have no reason to dispute good old Moses, our nation was sold down the river, a long time ago, and only Kenyans can restore the river to its proper course.