Raila's Begining Of The End? Your President 2013.

The dark secrets in Miguna’s book have buried Raila’s political career

After the dark secrets revealed all week about Prime Minister Raila Odinga, it is perplexing that he has not yet resigned from office.

Mr Odinga’s legendary cowardice, equivocation on corruption, concealed capital and chaotic management style all but put paid to his 40-year quest for political power.

When details in Mr Miguna Miguna’s Peeling Back the Mask reach every village and hamlet, describing how Mr Odinga is given to constant, raucous weeping and wailing, his political future will be squarely in the past.

It is a fate from which not even his most creative pollster friends will be able to extricate him.

Mr Odinga is a clueless, double-faced traitor to the cause who, until his great denunciation, had masqueraded as a political detainee, champion of liberty, democrat and voice of the voiceless.

His practised pretence at poverty has been exploded by fresh revelations of his jarring billionaire status, which is in sharp relief with the penury of his constituents in Nairobi’s Kibera slum. Kibera will be roiling with anger when its residents realise how long they have been taken for a ride.

Until now, no one has been able to expose Mr Odinga’s elaborate public deception in presenting the image of a courageous statesman and clever political strategist.

Exposed by no less than his senior-most adviser – who called all strategy meetings, wrote stirring speeches and was prime minister in everything but name – Mr Odinga’s graphic inadequacy and cowardice in confronting President Kibaki’s evil genius is all the more believable.

This is the person who is supposed to face off with terrorists and other people attacking Kenya. Were he to become commander-in-chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, there is no telling the example he would set for soldiers.

His flaws, including nepotistic practices like picking his relatives from the village and giving them State appointments, make him singularly unfit to hold public office.

How does someone talk to the president from behind a curtain for 30 minutes without attempting to peel back the mask and expose his duplicity?

How does someone who aspires to leadership keep making compromises on everything – from giving up his birthright as Leader of Government Business in Parliament to attending Cabinet meetings after his decision to sack a minister has been countermanded?

He climbed down on having a parliamentary system when the review of the Constitution was underway; there is no telling what Mr Odinga will not sell out on.

And to top it all, Mr Odinga has kept telling Kenyans that relations in the coalition were cordial when he was permanently holding the short end of the stick.

There must be something in the Constitution that forbids this kind of conduct.

At the very least, Mr Odinga should step aside from public office to allow for a full inquiry into the deluge of allegations facing him.

In other developed nations, Parliament would have been summoned from its recess to subject Mr Odinga to a confidence vote.

The Kenyan electorate will likely take a very dim view of this barefaced duplicity and inflict the harshest punishment for it at the ballot.

All the people who had placed their hopes in Mr Odinga have been disabused of their ignorance and will be looking keenly to see who else would fit the bill to lead the country.

It would have been better, right from the get-go, for Mr Odinga and Mr Miguna to exchange positions so that the real Prime Minister could reckon what to do with the educated advice of a barrister.

Kenya has been looking for someone who is courageous, honest, unflinching in the quest for justice. It is not too late for Mr Miguna to step forward for national service.

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