Raila's 'Ruto must go' calls are echoes from a distant past

Azimio la Umoja leader Raila Odinga. His current Sisyphean task is to disrupt President William Ruto's government. [David Njaaga, Standard]

There is a place in Central Kenya called Mathigo. Story has it that following the 1992 presidential elections, Kenneth Matiba, a candidate who lost to President Daniel Moi, made a stop at the market centre.

Addressing a crowd that gathered around him, he declared emphatically that, "Moi must go." To the locals, it came across as "Moi mathigo." Mathigo has since overshadowed the original name.