Why Sudi has only opened his mouth in Parliament to yawn or drink water

Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi addressing worshipers at Kipkorgot AIC church where he presided over a fundraiser in aid of the church in Eldoret onMay 26, 2024. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

We have a good laugh whenever we have the occasional reunion with my high school buddies, wondering if we should add Oscar Sudi to the old Highie boys’ WhatsApp group. The Kapseret MP and a confidante of Prezzo Bill Ruto purports that he attended Highway High School, so we laugh at his unique configuration of the school’s name.

Now the MP has added another distinction that’s not a laughing matter: Sudi is yet to open his mouth to speak in Parliament, three years on. I’m not sure what could be the source of Sudi’s insecurities; he long overcame his certificate manenos when he secured an honorary doctorate from some obscure “university.”

In any case, Sudi is a vibrant speaker outside Parliament, recording and publishing searing commentaries on social media, almost always ending with an epithet that’s mangled into a phlegmic spat.

This contemptuous leitmotif is an expression of Sudi’s rejection of the strictures of power structures that limit the way he can express himself. A particular glow that leaps to his eyes when he delivers the epithet, incorrigible and unparliamentary as it is.

I suppose through these online sketches, the good people of Kapseret get their pressing issues canvassed; after all, Sudi is as close to power as it can get, even without ever opening his mouth to speak in Parliament save for when he’s yawning, breathing, or drinking water.

That, truly, is the unique way through which he exercises his power, and he’s been effective enough to secure re-election multiple times, and he’s bound for more. Bure kabisa.