BTW, Karua has no politicians behind her. Sonko, Kabogo etc are in the UK Camp

Museum!!!

@famooz, you will not hear of a better candidate from this ilk or what Mr flip flop stands for amidst the flip flopping.

@Nonstopp.....And what's the difference between common mwananchi and you. You keep quoting Central Kenya in your argurment.

Compared to the others who have expressed interest she fares better in Accountability, transparency and confronting other vice. That's she ranks highest on my radar!

Famooz, I'm also new on wazua and I wonder why you decided to baptize a newbie by fire.
The reason why Narc-Kenya is dead is because it was revived from the dead Narc in the first place.
I think zombies are called the walking dead.
If you resurrect a carcass, what you get is a brainless animate chunk of meat that smells of rot.
I'm not saying that Narc-Kenya is brainless and rotting, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a newbie to relent from expressing his view about politics when it is clear that he might have joined this forum for the express purpose of doing that.
I'm sure the topics that really trend here are on politics and not many people are really interested in much else.
Maybe business, technology and the arts play a role here, but the world over, politics is what keeps media houses profitable.
Concerning the Martha Karua launch so that I don't deviate from the main topic of this particular post, I think it's too early for Kenya to be wielding a female candidate.
Don't get me wrong I'm not a chauvinist or anything, but think about it countries that pride themselves as being beacons of democracy and equality such as the US opted to pick a black guy with first generation African roots over a white woman. It's not yet time for Martha.
I see a situation where she will only end up running her bank accounts dry and those of her political supporters.
It's a pretty bad sign when you only get one MP to back you on your presidential bid. It's really bad.
Concerning the Kirinyaga elections think about it this way.
The people did not vote for Karaba because of Martha Karua or because he was from Narc Kenya. They had already cast votes for him during the 2007 elections. It's not as though they had an epiphany and decided they were going to vote for him.
No one who would run for an elected position would come out empty. He would at least get his own vote asuming he voted for himself. In Kenya the name or the ideals of a party don't matter. Would Raila's supporters have refused to vote for him if he had ran on a party ticket of a party with a different name than ODM. His supporters would have voted for him even if he had run on a ticket of a party called 'Raila for Kibaki's Re-election Party - RKRP'.
Finally, Karua talked about the issues she was planning to tackle if elected. There was nothing new or spectacular about that. Probably these are the issues being wielded by politicians all over the world. There is hunger in the entire world. Exporting of jobs is also an issue worldwide where the likes of Obama are having a hard time explaining to their people how they are going to stimulate local production and exports. It's also not as though she is the first woman to run for presidency in Kenya. The slogan also wasn't revolutionary. It was just a reincarnation of the same old things we've been hearing from long before Matiba's time. A bone I have to pick with Martha Karua is that when she was given the power to prosecute all who had stolen state property during her stint as Minister for Justice, she decided to go the way of the coward and quit. This was not honorable and I can't help but wonder if she would quit on the country if she were unable to solve the systemic problems that plague us and cite lack of resources as the reason.

@Obure, who would you vote for?

@ gohill,i saw the response and was like wohoho hold on!

@ samsonobure,All newbies are welcome here! lest wazua deletes my account on account of baptising newbies with fire:)

Could you please weka bullet points then i will respond? :D . i don do well at all with long responses

Martha, please go back to the school of politics. Is 1 measly MP enough to launch a presidential bid? Mulamamba is the only one who has stuck around and I wonder why?

The ship is sinking and guys are jumping off and all your doing is holding a banquet....reminds me of Titanic and those sorts of movies.

Back to the point. Why did you decide Kamukunji was not good enough for you? Or was it that you were not good enough for Kamukunji? Your critics are having a ball with this museum thing. You know.... Tin Tin at the museum..... Night at the museum...... Mummies, cowboys, pirates, that sort of thing. Maybe cowboys and pirates is overdoing it.... hehehe.

"I declare I know no other man but Father Wamugunda"