Monday 15 July 2024

58 years ago, this July

Jomo Kenyatta had fallen out with his Vice President, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga who was advocating for democracy and calling out the corruption in the new government. He had appointed Joseph Murumbi to be the Vice President in May 1966. Within two months, the July of the same year , Murumbi tendered his his first letter of resignation, not willing to be associated with the looting of the country that he saw. His best friend Pio Gama Pinto had been assassinated a year earlier, and he was still sad about this and scared he would die too if he criticised the land grabbing and thefts. Kenyatta refused, but when Murumbi sent another letter claiming he was sick, he was allowed to resign in November.

Unlike then, if Riggy G is to be afflicted by the same spirit that touched Joseph Murumbi's conscience this July, and drops a letter, it is game short. Check mate.

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