They tasted blood

in the short story Tekayo, grace ogot told of the mzee who ate a strange liver he got by shooting down a hawk. the hawk had a piece of meat which the mzee then roasted and ate. the taste was far better than anything he knew and he spent the next months looking for a similar taste without success. however he one time killed one grandson and tasted the liver, he found it to be exact match. from there , a cannibal was born!

well thats rather extreme example, but i couldnt find anything with which to compare the kenyan voter. the anger is palpable. yesterday, i got the westlands primary school queue at spring valley. and that was about midday. the line was that long but voters just kept patient and waited for their turn to vote. the same story was replicated almost everywhere in the country. last night the results started trickling in as painfully slow as ever. but with them came news of massive retrenchment of ministers, MPs even a vice president!

for some, i expected but for most am utterly shocked like mwiraria, kagwe, nyachaye, kombo, kirwa! surely; qu'est ce qui se passe!?

but Rift valley is leading in their brutality showing no respect for the have-never-lost professor of politics. all his sons went by the sword reminding one of King Saul in the old testament. others were total man and paul sang

the kenyan voter tasted the sweet blood of the heartless MPs and presidents for the first time in 2002, and they are showing relentless thirst for more.