You have dirt on Uhuru? Bring it on Mr Sudi, don’t beat about the bush

Kapseret Member of Parliament Oscar Sudi. [Peter Ochieng/Standard]

Oscar Sudi, the loquacious, belligerent Kapseret Member of Parliament intimated recently that his faction of the fractious Jubilee has a dossier on President Kenyatta. And if we are to believe South African social critic Mokokoma Mokhonoana: “The kind of lies that someone tells give us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.”

Certainly, Kenyans are neither ignorant nor stupid. Inadvertently or otherwise, Sudi’s outburst played into the growing belief that corruption in Kenya runs deeper than most of us imagine. By threatening to tell on Kenyatta, Sudi’s message was that corruption is sanctioned at the highest levels of governance, with the presidency guilty of dipping its fingers into the public till. Sudi’s pronouncement created the impression there was an unwritten agreement within Jubilee to loot, which one party had broken. If the other party was going down, it was not going alone, hence the threat on letting the cat out of the bag.