Uhuru's enemies will srike again

It is now absolutely clear that someone quite smart wants to do Uhuru Kenyatta in. The first attempt has made the Gatundu politician escape political death by the skin of his teeth but Mzee Jomo’s son still remains vulnerable with the number of his political enemies swelling every single day. These enemies are to be found in his own political party Kanu, his larger group of PNU, his own powerful Ministry at the Treasury, his own tribe the Kikuyus and in the ODM which happens to be his most conspicuous adversary.

In public Uhuru says a computer “error” made him present to Parliament a faulty supplementary budget that had to undergo the scrutiny by two House Committees ordered by Speaker Kenneth Marende; but in private the Finance Minister blames political sabotage by his most obvious enemies in the ODM whom he claims are masters of skullduggery. Whatever the case may be both his name and that of the entire Treasury have been tarnished. Accusations of inefficiency, incompetence and ineffectiveness will, therefore, not be too far fetched. Right now Uhuru and his Gema colleagues are extremely bitter people and long before further investigations are made concerning the “error”, some important heads at the Treasury will definitely role.

The only trouble is that at the Treasury all the top jobs are held by the Gema people. The Permanent Secretary, Joseph Kinyua, is from the “Big House”, so are the Director of Budget, Paul Ngugi, and the Accountant General Michael Gatimu. The only non- Gema top official is the head of the ICT department Jerome Ochieng. All fingers will be pointing at this man now and many wonder whether he will be made the sacrificial lamb as he does not belong to the “Big House” and, worse still, has a name that sounds like that of an ODM sympathizer.

The big question that is puzzling the people from the “Big House” is whether ODM is so well organized as to penetrate the Treasury which they though they were controlling. Sure enough the ODM has always been interested in the Ministry of Finance. In the party there are a number of people who have held that portfolio including the Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi and Chris Okemo who has been probing Uhuru in Parliament.

The tug-of-war between ODM and PNU before the coalition Government was formed was based on which party between the two would take the responsibility of running the Treasury. Indeed Uhuru’s own assistant is Raila’s brother, Dr Oburu Odinga, who obviously must be having some followers among the senior members of staff in the Ministry. Did Oburu’s cronies throw the spanner in Uhuru’s works? Though Oburu must be somewhat enchanted at the embarrassment of his boss, it is most unlikely that he would want to sink the boat where he is the deputy captain.

The Ministry of Finance has been the centre of controversy long before Uhuru went there. The most recent involves the illegal sell of the Grand Regency Hotel to the Libyans. Until today it is not quite clear who the real beneficiary of that sale was. All that is known is that the powers that be in this country were arm-twisting civil servants to fasten the process that made Gaddafy the owner of one of the most magnificent buildings in our capital city. The removal of Amos Kimunya because of that saga made a lot of his close friends he left behind extremely bitter. These are the people who would not give Uhuru a red carpeted welcome at the Treasury as they see his promotion there as a mere favoritism meant to be used as a stepping stone to higher political positions. Could Kimunya’s friends have tried to push Uhuru over the cliff? No one will ever tell.

The very appointment of Uhuru Kenyatta as one of the Deputy Prime Minister created serious rifts within the Gema group. A lot of people from Mount Kenya area believe the rightful candidate for that office from the PNU group should have been Martha Karua. As a matter of fact Martha herself was so angry that she finally had to quit the discipleship of Mwai Kibaki. In fact she is so bitter that she has publicly announced her presidential candidature in 2012 where she will openly challenge Uhuru Kenyatta’s legitimacy as the true leader of the Gema people. Are Uhuru Kenyatta’s saboteurs at the Treasury supporters of Martha Karua? No amount of enquiry will ever be able to expose that.

Still within the Gema group the followers of George Saitoti are not particularly fond of Uhuru Kenyatta whom they regard as a mere child born with a silver spoon in his mouth and now being elevated to status he does not deserve. The muted animosity between Uhuru Kenyatta and George Saitoti is also based on the 2012 candidature for the Presidency. Having once been only a heart beat away from State House when he served for years as Daniel arap Moi’s Vice President, George Saitoti believes he is the rightful Gema presidential candidate in the next general elections. His only obstacle is Uhuru Kenyatta. Could Saitoti’s cronies have set an embarrassing trap to catch Uhuru with his pants down? If so, then they almost succeeded and to remove this group from the Treasury where Saitoti served for years is next to impossible. Worse still to unearth them will be an exercise in futility.

The Gema enemies of Uhuru Kenyatta extend far and wide and they are mainly caused by the huge gap in the community between the haves and the have-nots. Among the haves Uhuru represents the pinnacle of cornucopia. He has wealth he hardly worked for. Wealth that was acquired by his father through the use of despotic powers. All this, when children of true freedom fighters are languishing in indescribable poverty, caused by the exploitation by the very people who opposed the fight for independence. Indeed this social, economic and political dichotomy is said to be the genesis of the dreaded Mungiki terrorism. Are there children of poor Kikuyus holding important jobs at the Treasury who what to teach Uhuru Kenyatta a lesson? If there are, no one will ever know them because, very much like the clandestine Mungiki movement, they operate in the most subterranean manner.

In Uhuru’s own political party Kanu he has enemies with drawn out daggers ready to strike at any time. Without consulting these enemies, who constitute a very powerful pro Moi Kalenjins within the party, Uhuru pulled the party into PNU and made the oldest political group part of the Gema establishment. It so happens that within the pro Moi Kanu group there are powerful people in the Treasury who were always controlled by Nyayo himself for decades. Could this group be responsible for Uhuru’s computer “error”? Again it will have to take an investigator with supernatural powers to discover the truth. All these groups listed above are composed of people who rub shoulders with Uhuru Kenyatta on daily basis as his so called close friends. But with friends like these Uhuru needs no enemies at all. Very soon they are bound to strike again.