I must say it is quite a delight reading about this Uhuru/Ruto with in the dailies today. Sample some gems:
Quote:An inferior political strategy and poor financial organisation may have undermined the Coalition For Reforms and Democracy’s chances in the March 4 General Election.
Senior Cord members revealed that the party had no agents in many of the 34,000 polling centres around the country after a top official at the Prime Minister’s Office tasked to hire poll monitors failed to do so.
http://www.nation.co.ke/.../-/xwo8b3z/-/index.html
Quote: Mr. Kenyatta once told a story of his day in primary school, where he and his mates were bullied and beaten by Standard Seven pupils.
They all went to the young Kenyatta and told him to call his father. “How can we be beaten like this and your father is President? They put pressure on me, and asked me to call my father,” recalled Mr Kenyatta.
His mates forced him to go to a telephone booth and call his father. “I told him we’ve really been mishandled … we need help ... After I had complained, I kept quiet. He told me: ‘Learn to fight your own battles’,” said Mr Kenyatta in a past talk with students.
http://www.nation.co.ke/.../-/4lagtez/-/index.html
I must admit I've been harbouring some prejudice towards Mama Ngina (land issues and all). Nothing like a good dose of information to engender some balance.
Quote: Mama Ngina is Mzee Kenyatta’s fourth wife and married him in 1951 when she was only 18. Jomo was 57 then.
She was arrested soon after her husband was shipped away to Kapenguria by the colonial masters, where she was incarcerated at the Kamiti Maximum Prison.
When she went back to her home in Gatundu, she found that her house had been demolished. She became a farmer, planting maize, beans and potatoes on her farm and selling them at the market in Gatundu.
When her husband died, she was at State House, Mombasa with her children Uhuru, Muhoho and Nyokabi during a family get together
"Mzee had no money, but I sold some land to help educate the children. I realised that education was the only thing that I could give them since with education and hard work, even without wealth, one can succeed.”
http://www.nation.co.ke/.../-/wu08qlz/-/index.html
And lastly the political prodigy that is William Ruto, from poverty to deputy president at only 46 years.
http://www.nation.co.ke/...22/-/vogtdk/-/index.html