Now, let’s talk candidly about bread and butter

Sour grapes or simply the green-eyed monster, Cyrus Jirongo is a has-been in the politics of Western Kenya. Like the white ants that are a delicacy in that part of the country and which come during the rainy season, Jirongo comes alive when another Luhya leader is in the limelight and often, around election time.

Even though it has never benefited him politically to swim against the tide, Jirongo nonetheless never tires. The recent naming of the National Super Alliance’s presidential flag bearer brought him out of the barrow in which he had been hibernating.