British poet and actor Robert Montgomery famously opined that you should “enjoy the applause but never quite believe it.” I am afraid this simple yet profound advice has been lost on many a Kenyan politician. The latest victims of this amnesia are the impeached ex-Deputy President and DCP’s Rigathi Gachagua and the overly exuberant Nairobi senator Edwin Sifuna. Both men suffer a seemingly congenital inability for self-awareness.
Mr Sifuna, like Mr Gachagua before him, seems to have drunk too much of his own Kool-Aid. It’s the nature of politics that its incumbents often believe their own immortality. That’s why they tend to bestride the political landscape with the razzmatazz of a peacock. Both men are birds of a feather.
