Uhuru won't sacrifice the truce, his legacy to put Ruto in power

President Uhuru Kenyatta.

Jubilee’s Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta is doing what I thought he would never do. The man from Gatundu appears to be genuinely fighting corruption. He’s brought down the guillotine on his fellow political and business classmates. Am I dreaming in Buffalo, New York or is this for real? Let me be fair. Everything I have seen – and heard – suggests that Kamwana isn’t simply barking. He’s actually biting. He’s swinging the Sword of Damocles without pity. The cudgel of his deadly machete seems to know no ally, tribe, race, religion or buddy. The question is why Mr Kenyatta has woken from his slumber. Why has he decided to walk his talk now? Methinks the man from Bondo is the key.

Let’s look at what Kenyatta is doing. First, he ordered the arrest and prosecution of corrupt mandarins and the destruction of their cartels. I thought it was one of his usual stunts done with bluster and panache. But then I saw big fish – barracudas – in the dock. He’s obviously empowered DPP Noordin Haji to do what his supine predecessor couldn’t – and wouldn’t – do. Mr Haji – a Robert Mueller facsimile – looks methodical, ruthless, and cutthroat. He doesn’t waste time “studying” EACC files. He acts. Apparently, Kenyatta has his back. The second thing Kenyatta has done is demolish and – or – repossess structures built on grabbed public land. The beauty of the exercise is no one is being spared.