Bellicose statements from Rift Valley politicians have once again stirred up anxiety across the country. It would be easy to dismiss them as rhetorical chaff, thrown up to distract the war on corruption. But it is more than that.
Oscar Sudi, the Kapseret MP and Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri at the weekend claimed the fight against corruption was being waged by shadowy forces keen to block Deputy President William Ruto from succeeding President Uhuru Kenyatta when his term ends in 2022.