No red-letter day for senator who itches to write

Murang'a Senator Irungu Kang'ata. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Irungu Kang’ata would have hoped to feel special on this day of love, not nursing a heartbreak. He would have wished that the Jubilee Party would love him as much as he had loved it. That the Tuko Pamoja party would have thought him worth keeping after his heart-rending letter to its party leader.

Kang’ata had poured his heart out and thought he would receive an emotional reply, not one that reddened his eyes with grief. In his letter, the former majority leader told the president of a looming embarrassment, warning him that his Mt Kenya backyard did not think his — and Raila Odinga’s — BBI child to be a blessing.