Did former President Uhuru Kenyatta hold back too much of what is in his heart about the Kenya Kwanza government? Listening to his speech at the Jubilee National Delegates Conference (NDC) which at some point was punctuated by chants of "toboa, toboa" (spill the beans), it was evident that Uhuru's repeated statements of "we are peaceful people" were loaded with deeper meaning.

The furthest Uhuru drove home the peace clarion is to say that even peaceful people deserve respect, adding that if people in government behave as thugs towards others they will also be treated with thuggish behaviour.

Uhuru's statements were uttered with a degree of measured jokes and analogies revealing an unhappy man. One would wonder why he comes so close to saying what he feels and thinks but just holds back. Even when he defended himself saying "mimi sitaki kuongea" (I don't want to speak) the crowd shouted back wanting him to say that which he was holding back. But he stuck to his word.