THE REALITY OF THE GAME IS HERE. IN OTHERS WORDS

"Somebody once said that politics is like prostitution. The more money one gets, the more powerful they become. So powerful that they are able to get paid for services not rendered. Look at the way MPs have been swarming over Moyale and Marsabit districts, commissioning a borehole here and promising a dispensary there. Nobody knows where the money came from, but just because they are in power we believe in them.

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Every election cycle yields its fair share of winners and losers. The big loser on Monday, undoubtedly, was the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which emerged with nothing after a spirited campaign, prompting a wag on one FM station to brand it the Likely Dying Party. Wow!

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Even after becoming an Assistant minister, Mwangi Kiunjuri still thinks like a tout on Racecourse Road, acts like a tout on Latema Road and talks like a tout on University Way. While Palaver appreciates that Kenya is a land of opportunity and anyone can become anybody, Kiunjuri has failed to decode the difference between manning a bus stop and being in Government. If proximity to the powers that be cannot make him respect public institutions like the ECK, what will?

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Steadman said LDP and Narc were the most popular parties. Yet they lost to Kanu and Narc-Kenya in the just-concluded by-elections in Moyale, Laisamis, North Horr, Saku and Nakuru Town. Unless the Steadman samples are from the moon and the error of margin is absolute, the pollsters have boxed themselves into a circus. Their perception of reality seems to be a mirage to the public. Over to you, George Waititu.

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If Danson Mungatana doesn’t get a ministerial position for making the Narc-Kenya dream a reality, then politcs is truly a dog’s job. Mungatana has been so consistent in his praise for Narck-Kenya that if he paid as much attention to his Garsen constituency, the villagres would be living in nirvana.

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And finally …

If only that busybody William Kabogo would descend from the skies in his cacophonous helicopter, his constituents cry, he would realise there are no roads in Juja".