What are friends for? Tale of two buddies eager to stab each other in the back

Caricature of Kiambu Governor Waititu and his Nairobi counterpart, Mike Sonko.

On Wednesday morning, Kiambu Governor Ferdinand Waititu looked into the mirror and perhaps for the first time in his life, loathed what he saw. The reflection that was looking back at him was a true image of himself. The only differences of note were the physical appearances of the person looking him dead in the eye.

Waititu is a couple of inches over six feet. The reflection looking back was well shy of this. Waititu has a full head of hair, the reflection had a close shaven head, with hair unnaturally shiny. Waititu wears just one thin gold chain that often bounces off his chest when he is running after illegal alcohol sellers in the bowels of Kiambu. The guy staring back at him often has kilos of an assorted range of metals of different hues threatening to break his fast disappearing neck.