History may repeat itself in next year's general election

The month of March is special for us for several reasons and this one in 2016 has faithfully kept its promise. On March, 18, 2002, I was at the Moi Kasarani Sports Complex Gymnasium as then President Moi and leader of the defunct National Development Party Raila Odinga merged their parties.

Raila became Secretary General, replacing the cantankerous Joseph Kamotho (deceased) while Cabinet ministers Musalia Mudavadi, Kalonzo Musyoka and Katana Ngala were elected Vice Chairmen. The other casualty of this our version of Shakespearean Ides of March, was then VP George Saitoti (deceased) who would go ahead to make the famous, but yet ungrammatical prediction; “There come a time...!”