Why Maasai are warming up to NASA

I read with consternation an assertion by a Narok County staff, Oliver Mwenda, (Standard, February 22) that Opposition’s forays in Maasailand are inconsequential ahead of the August elections. First, Governor Samuel Tunai’s functionary is the wrong person to give a blanket view on Narok politics because he does not seem to understand an iota of dynamics that determine election choices in Maasailand.

Any hawk-eyed political analyst privy to the emerging Maasai politics will tell you Maasai land is no longer at ease within Jubilee. The governor is quoted elsewhere declaring that Narok is not a swing vote as pundits have classified it, and reiterated that it is a Jubilee zone. Nothing can be further from the truth. To begin with, although Jubilee won all top county seats and all but one MP seat, it only won 13 of 30 MCA seats in 2013. This outcome can only be explained by the swing vote that comes from the surging immigrant voters from Jubilee leaning regions.