What next for the Kikuyu nation, Raila cannot Rule, from the brains of a tea man.

I was at the local tea kiosk this afternoon. As a young man who has gone to college and who spends most of the time scouring international media for anything noteworthy, the local tea kiosk is the tea kiosk is the only place that affords me closeness with my people. I am a Kikuyu from central Kenya; probably in a globalizing world my ethnic identity does not form the axis of my life and my thinking. The local tea kiosk I s a different story altogether, set in a small township in Nyandarua county in Central province it is nestled in a very local environment. This though provides an opportunity for me, it is the only place I can capture the neigh emotions and aspirations of my people; (the Kikuyu) it is a microcosm of opinions of peoples from central Kenya be they inside the province or in diaspora. I will consciously author this piece as from an ethnic point of view but don not get me wrong I do intend to trade my objectivity to ethnic bigotry.
So, as I am sitting in the tea kiosk, glossing over crumpled pages of The Daily Nation, the team man starts handing leaflets to us. The forms bear the names of a political party I have never heard as a Kenyan, and boy do I know a lot about political parties in Kenya. They are also structured in the form of a declaration, yes declaring the unequivocal support of a the venerable Uhuru Kenyatta, (son of Kenya’s founding father, current Minister for Finance, Deputy Prime Minister and the current member of parliament for Gatundu Constituency) as Kenya’s next president.
But, wait a minute; I have not heard any one announce a general election. The only general election I am faintly aware about is scheduled to happen in August or in December 2012, depending on who you ask. The aforementioned figure head of the Kikuyu nation has an undetermined case at the International Court of Justice. So why the hell am I supposed to make the choice about who I will vote for right now?
A gentleman sitting adjacent fills in the form without questions asked. I respectfully refuse to fill up the forms. The tea man and the gentle man adjacent in the revolutionary Rastafarian regalia immediately take me on.
“Why do you let your community down?” they quip.
As coolly as I can I explain that although I think that Uhuru Kenyatta is a very likable and able politician and sort of has a nationwide presence he is not a choice I am prepared to make.
“So who will you vote for?” They ask.
“Peter Kenneth,” I answer probably in an effort to balm their pains for Peter Kenneth is another Kikuyu politician, an eloquent man a thinker and a man I believe the Kenyan state deserves as a president. The problem is he is a political light weight being that it is he is not the ass that pulls the ethnic bandwagon of Kikuyu politics.
“But Raila will win, Raila needs a hitter like himself if we are to win the presidency.” The tea man tells me, who is in himself an authority on social, political relationships and reproductive health issues in the village.
Raila is another politician, quite conspicuous in the Kenyan political scene. His hoi polloi venerate him into a demigod; they say he evokes both Raila Phobia and Raila Mania. What is happening here is a classic case of Raila Phobia (an artificially fear of Raila the man.) A Nigerian man has authored a biography on Raila; his detractors say he paid the author. Personally, I think he is a joke I do not buy his populist antics and his half-baked riddles, I also cannot vote or support a politician who is ideologically ambivalent as he is. Exactly what does he stand for?
Back to the tea kiosk, my fellow tribesmen are fearful of a Raila presidency, for what I do not know, I am fearful of a Raila presidency to, why? I do not quite subscribe to his Social Democracy ideology, social democracy is socialism in politically correct language. I am also fearful of an Uhuru Kenyatta presidency, I see him sitting between where we are as a nation and where we want to go.
(This paragraph is an unbridled advice on the kikuyu nation. Everybody knows Raila has no equal; politically that is, that is why the Kikuyu nation tries to prop Uhuru up to fight it out with Raila when it is clear he is not Raila’s equal. The problem though is not with Uhuru, it is with the Kikuyu nation. The Kikuyus, have been content to raise subservient children, our in-laws from the lake have taught their children to shout it out, even their ignorant shout it out at the top of their voices at soccer matches at political podiums and shout it out with stones (ikidis). The Kikuyu rest on the fact that they are the bourgeoisie in the country.)
That aside I propose a formula that will rid Kenya of the triad of evil in Kenya’s politics (Uhuru, Raila, Ruto) and their imps Simple, Ruto and Uhuru have their charges confirmed at the Hague, Kenyans will blame Raila for that, a protest vote against Raila happens in the next general election and bam Kenya gets itself a new breed of politicians incapable of creating personality cults around themselves. Kenyan institutions flourish and the future is good to go.