Attack on Wiper leader Kalonzo was unwarranted

NASA presidential candidate Raila Odinga (left) and his running mate Kalonzo Musyoka display their certificate and getting IEBC clearance to contest. (Photo: Moses Omusula, Standard)

Outrageous, preposterous; succinctly contextualise an opinion published in The Standard, June 12, 2017 under the headline: ‘Why Nasa is wrong coalition for the Kamba nation’ by Dr Joshua Kivuva, a political scientist, no less. Even as I acknowledge that Dr Kivuva is entitled to his opinion, there is a rider that an opinion should be supported by facts, or be able to attract the benefit of doubt.

Mr Kivuva begins by denigrating the competence of leaders who, for decades, have stood at the helm of the Kamba nation’s leadership. Based on subjective suppositions, Kivuva asserts that Johnstone Muthama ‘forced’ Wiper into NASA to ‘sabotage’ Kalonzo’s presidency bid and that Muthama has his own presidential ambition.