IS THE VP A CONNIVING OPPORTUNIST OR A PHILANDERING OPPORTUNIST?

Dear Sir/Madam,

Remember the days when the Vice President, aka, the miracle worker said that he speaks prophetically? Didn`t he say that he will pass in their midst and none will see him? Of course we all know that that was a prophecy that never was. Now the VP, somewhat re-energized has once more dusted and adorned his prophetic regalia and is traversing the whole country in the company of some YK92 brigand and possible ICC customers proselytizing the re- birth of a political Kenya in 2012 no doubt under his stewardship.

I must admit that that his latest prophecy has left my mind wide open as is my mouth. So I will beg of you to lend me five minutes of your precious time as we try to explicate this “prophecy.” To begin with, I must remind you of the words of George Elliot (1819-1890) who said that “among all forms of mistakes, prophecy is the most gratuitous.” You see, with prophecy it is never important whether the prophet or his ardent followers have none of the gentleman`s instincts when strutting about its fulfillment. Not even once must you mistake a prophet for a nattering Nabob. Not even when the prophet appears to be like an Ali Baba with the forty thieves. Are we not warned of dire consequences if we should have as much as a shred of doubt against the mouthpiece of the greater god?

This conviction explains why the VP is not about to let this “prophecy thing” go. He is talking straight without butting his eyelid because he wants all and sundry in the “wilderness” to believe that yesterday`s land grabbers and plunderers of the economy can in a jiffy become transformative leaders. But wait a minute, didn`t Zachaeus the thieving taxman return what he had amassed all his thieving years to avoiding being hanged by public opinion? To imagine that not even a single word of confession has come out of any one in the VP`s new found fold makes it irrational. You and I know that irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. The VP knows as much as the conscientious public does that people with skeletons in their closets cannot be transformative leaders. If the VP is not peddling irrational truths then what is behind his façade?

It is not surprising that the VP sees formidable allies in the YK92. It is also not surprising that the VP prefers parading his irrationally held truths in the front page of the main stream media. The real reason why the VP is brazenly wagging hopeful where many seasoned politicians would have been crestfallen is because the VP is a conniving opportunist. Like a ravenous vulture he is patiently waiting for others to do the killing. But he fervently hopes that they would not be around for long to feast on their kill. For courtesy of ICC some will have fallen from grace to grass leaving their political turfs orphaned. It is this scenario that has him salivating at the prospects of bagging sympathy votes that may just propel him to State House.

If the ICC does not live up to its promise then that will surely mark the beginning of an end to this much hyped prophecy. The VP will go it alone in 2012 for he cannot and will never play a second fiddling to anybody. So if I were those who mistakenly think that the VP is a philanthropist, I would think twice. Why for instance, is one of the VP`s trusted foot soldier busy courting Ocampo to fast track the indictment process as the VP thinks it prudent to spread his political harem far and wide? So is the VP a conniving opportunist or a philandering philanthropist?

TOME FRANCIS,
BUMULA CONSTITUENCY.
http://twitter.com/tomefrancis