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Mashujaa: When politicians could debate, charm snakes out of a hole

Then Finance Minister Mwai Kibaki with his bosses Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi at Parliament Buildings in 1971. [File]

Occasionally, one catches flashes of brilliance on the floor of parliament, especially in the Senate where battle-scarred political generals and masters of rhetoric tango in a game of wits. 

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