Moses Kuria's morbid humour heralds his travails in the politics of 'unga'

Trade CS Moses Kuria. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

"There are many ways of dying," Trade Minister Moses Kuria-MK to his handful supporters- deadpanned. His morbid humour was a sudden climbdown. A week earlier, he was issuing threats to Movoko squatters to leave government land or face his graders and earthmovers, and which elicited immediate rebuff from Machakos Governor, Wavinya Ndeti. She dared him in her characteristic stride: ya ndwele sipite!

It means MK should mind his own business and not dwell on a past that he didn't understand, such as squatter politics in Machakos. It appears Wavinya's rebuke was taken seriously, for MK did not revisit the matter or send in his graders as he claimed he would.