Mutua’s super-sized ambition keeps friend and foe guessing

Alfred Mutua is a man who likes to control the narrative. Everything he does is well scripted. He wants, no, needs to know where every comma, every hyphen, every full stop, falls in the script of his public life.

And after the court threw out his appeal against High Court ruling that nullified his election 2017 election as governor, the man from Machakos is back at it again, swaying public opinion towards him, an art he has perfected in his close to 20 years in public office.