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Sammy Douglas Kamau Ngotho of DCP after wining the Ol Kalou by-elections.[File, Standard]
Where I come from, we say one doesn’t kick a man when he’s down. In that spirit, I’ll not characterise the ruling coalition UDA’s humiliation at the recent by-election in Ol Kalou (Oro Karao to some folks), as a deep loss to Prezzo Bill Ruto, even though he made a personal intervention by giving poll loser Muchina Nyaga a government job.
Neither will I dissect Prezzo Ruto's short comments about elections not being a matter of life and death—do or die—as he called it, even though it seemed something had died in him from the electoral debacle.
Nor will I probe the veracity of numbers being bandied around to explain what happened in Oro Karao and their implications on the forthcoming General Election. As I wrote earlier, the by-election seemed like such a high-stakes contest; I expected Prezzo Ruto to build a State lodge in Oro Karao so he could meet his Cabinet Secretaries and their Principal Secretaries, who pitched tent there.
