So President Kibaki has beat a retreat as far as his nominations to the four high offices are concerned. That is rightful and fitting. Now all he needs to do to regain his momentum for a final legacy before he leaves office is to shed his already soiled exoskeleton and show off his 'clean' inner self.
As long as his actions are deemed to be fueled and guided by the 'unholy trinity' of the 'KKK' alliance, he is misguided as far as the majority of right thinking Kenyans are concerned and he will never gain their trust and confidence. This triad is largely seen as mischievous, power-hungry, scheming, and only interested in halting varying legal proceedings against them as individuals-be they corruption, abuse of office on the home front or the ICC driven charges of crimes against humanity.
Conventional wisdom dictates that one is innocent until proven guilty, but when one actively and persistently postpones or frustrates the efforts to be proven innocent, or to be tried, then doubts are cast as to their innocence and what is implied is a self proclamation of a guilty verdict. Fraternise too much time with the guilty and their guilt rubs on you.
President Kibaki, being both a de-facto and de-jure, national unifying figure, and one who once promised zero tolerance of corruption in his administration, should try and spend his administration's twilight moments forging unity in all the ethnic communities and calling out corruption from the grand coalition he is fostering, one of the best ways to go about these tasks is to do just what he did by reneging his infamous nominations and being seen to be doing this in consultation with the PM, not his handlers, apologists and sycophants.
History will judge him very severely despite all the gains and strides he has afforded the ‘mwananchi wa kawaida’, democracy and economic infrastructure have truly thrived under him in scales unforeseen in a long time. History dictates that he pins these up the Notice Board and rightfully claim his task in our national progress.
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