Braggadocio is what you term Miguna’s performance this past week. And man did he play to and get the public gallery hanging on to his every word. Quiet dignity is what you sense when former president Jerry Rawlings cautions Kenyan voters to be more discerning before they leap.
No nonsense is what comes to mind when you hear: “There’s absolutely no place for jokes that could be perceived as a threat to the First Lady or anybody else... That’s not funny,” Washington DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier said of threats to Michelle Obama. And resolute confidence screams from Martha Karua when she told the Diaspora voters she will retire in the “unlikely event” she is not elected president. Wow!
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“I think they should take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile and burn them and start all over again.” So said Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid after finding out that US Olympic uniforms were made in China. Rather harsh, won’t you say? I thought it is all those American professors in my college days telling me how the world was becoming one big global village! What about all those Americans setting up military bases all over the globe and American multinationals utilising local labour and resources right across the planet. Surely what is the price of 1,000 pieces of uniform? Watch that ego Harry.
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Forget the horse and camel trading that swamped the African Union session in Addis Ababa last week. The best outcome was the face-to-face meeting between Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir at the Sheraton Hotel. That they held hour-long talks with their aides and then a private session alone is music to these Palaver ears.
Just imagine what would happen if these two long-time adversaries were to settle even half their differences regarding oil wells and oil revenues and accept a FINAL border demarcation before the August 2 UN Security Council deadline! Can Palaver ask our soapstone experts to start carving these two presidents into history textbooks?
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And finally...
By the way, did the outgoing students at Rwathia Girls Secondary get their constitutional right to wear shorter skirts? And has Kanduyi MP Alfred Khang’ati visited the ‘school’ where pupils learn under a rock?
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