Whoever said that politics is a dirty game ought to have given us alternatives. It is the players who are responsible if the game turns out to be dirty. African politics from the time we got independence has been based on wit, manipulation, greed, deceit and conniving.
We saw this in Zaire-Congo during the time of Patrice Lumumba. The same trend was witnessed in Kenya during the initial stages of Kanu and Kadu political manoeuvres.