WALKING IN THE SHADOWS OF MALIYAMUNGU; FAROUK THERE HE IS.
As I was studying this man Farouk who is loathed and loved in equal measure by Ruto's caramaderie , in him I see Isaac Lugonzo popularly known as MALIYAMUNGU. This fellow was a ruthless one. He was an army office in Uganda Armed forces in the 1970's and he was very instrumental during the coup that brought General , Field Marshall Idi Amin Dada into power. As a right hand man to Amin , colonel MALIYAMUNGU did atrocious , henious, brutal and genocidal acts towards people who were opposed to Amin's rule. Both known and perceived dissidents faced the brutal hands of MALIYAMUNGU. He was kind of psychotic because even Amin himself was finding hard to understand him. He was carrying out some errand duties especially in wrecking havoc and terror to Amin's opponents that Amin himself couldn't have executed.
Word has it , if MALIYAMUNGU stepped or spitted on your shoes , you were the person who was expected to apologize to him and not the vice versa. There is no photo of him or any documentated occasion where he was seem laughing or even feigning a smile. He was always butter with everything and everyone. He had erected a strong iron curtain between President Amin and his people. In KENYA'S history , the only Leader who is said to have used MALIYAMUNGU notes to some extent was the late Nicholas Biwott aka the Total man. Biwott was feared by everybody including himself. To see President Moi , even for Ministers working in KANU's goverment , they had to pass through him yet he was a minister like them.
In Farouk Kibet , he wields the same massive powers around DP Ruto. He is thr conduit between Ruto and his colleagues in UDA and Kenya Kwanza Alliance. How the likes of Mudavadi and Wetangula see surviving in his hands still remain a mystery. I may like to hear from them. It is hard. The question many like me are asking themselves , history of Kenya has documented a lot of henious and atrocious acts that such people have committed in the past especially during the autocratic and authoritarian KANU regime , what will this man do in an event Ruto's rise to power as thr 5th president of Kenya?If at this juncture he is terrorising his colleagues and close allies of DP Ruto , what about the ordinary wanjiku? How can he handle the Ministers and other top Government and State officers in Ruto's Government? Are we gearing up to see a return of a regime which was characterized with extra judicial killings especially to people who were critical of the regime? As we move forward , this are questions we should be asking ourselves. Let's not put a guillotine on our necks as we watch.
Just like MALIYAMUNGU Isaac Lugonzo did in Uganda during the dictatorial regime of Idi Amin Dada , there is someone whom I see will walk in the same SHADOW. He has been expressing those characters in black and white without hiding even an iota of it. This kind of people are the ones making alot of Kenyans especially those who suffered in the hands of KANU regime to develop a cold feet. To become paranoid and for us who are well vast with Kenya's history and have interacted with leaders who suffered the brutish hand of KANU State machinery , I can't fathom waking up and finding Kenya being in the hands of such Calibre of people.
The best way to avoid such a calamity is by rejecting Kenya Kwanza Alliance Presidential candidate in totality. We should take a path of darkness and reject that of light. We have thr wisdom of choosing our destiny and that of our children. We don't want our children to vindicate us for the wrong path we chose for them. Let them learn about the atrocious , henious , brutal and dehumanizing acts the KANU regime did but let's not allow the apocalypse to befall on them. Let's make the right DECISIONS.
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