Courtesy of the Nairobi Law Monthly, No 59 Nov/Dec, 1995. On November 29th, 1995, Hon Raila convened a quick General Council meeting in which he temporarily dethroned Hon Kijana Wamalwa as the Chairman of Ford-Kenya.
The next day, on 30th, Mr Wamwala instructed Dr Khaminwa and MrMakhandia (now a Court of Appeal Judge) to rush to the High Court for an injunction against Raila and his group. As Mr Makhandia was coming out of court, he was confronted by blood-thirsty youths paid by Raila after the injunction was granted against him. Mr Mbichi Mboroki and other learned friends came to Makhandia's rescue.
In an interview dubbed ‘Crossfire' by the Nairobi Law Monthly of that month, this is what the late Mr Wamalwa had to say of or about Raila:
On intelligence -'Raila is not my peer intellectually by any description. If Raila was a man of any abilities as the son of Kenya's first Vice-President in the early 1960s when scholarships to the top universities in the world were open to the sons of African leaders at their taking, he wouldn't have gone over land to Cairo to get on to some ramshackle boat to go to East Germany. I think this is a reflection of his abilities
'On his capability as a leader: ‘I don't think he has any leadership capabilities because he is a very dictatorial fellow. Whenever he talks in NEC meetings, he always says 'we must do this 'and people answer back 'you can't force us to do this’
On his support and followers: ‘That’s a myth. What Raila has is a private militia of unemployed youth who he pays money to cheer him wherever he goes'
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