The old man has very valid political views....
C&PHE DID NOT LIKE WHAT HE HEARDExplaining the incident that has thrown the haggard-looking man into national limelight, Mrs Issa (his employer) said she was shocked to learn from neighbours and television that Mr Mdzomba had actually attended the Okoa Kenya campaign rally at Kinango market and attacked Mr Odinga.
“I met him around noon seated outside the room where he sleeps,” she recalled. “I asked him, ‘Wewe huendi kwenye mkutano wa Cord?’ (Are you not attending the Cord rally?)”.
She said he responded that he had already made an appearance at the meeting and did not like what he had heard.She quoted him as saying:
“Wanasema wanataka kuokoa Kenya lakini Kenya imeshaokolewa. Wanataka kuokoa nini? Wanaoendelea kuteseka ni wananchi. (They say they want to save Kenya, yet Kenya is already free; what do they want to free? The ordinary people are the ones suffering).”
Mrs Issa said he singled out hunger, disease and
poor services from doctors “who are yet to be paid their salaries” as some of the afflictions “killing the people”.
She said the man did not give any sign that he had been involved in a security scare. But, she added,
he appeared bitter.