DERRICK: The trap of permanent protest while others build

For 60 years, marginalised communities have been rolling the boulder of national accountability up a steep hill.

About a week ago, former President Uhuru Kenyatta told a Jubilee National Executive Council meeting that Raila Odinga won the 2022 election.

He said it while handing Jubilee's leadership to Fred Matiang'i, the man who served as his Cabinet Secretary for Interior, commanding the country's entire security and intelligence apparatus. A few days later, ODM leader Oburu Oginga responded with three questions.

Why raise it now, four years later? Why hand power to William Ruto if you believed Raila won? And why use the sacrifice of a departed leader as material for a new political project?

Those questions expose precisely the trap this piece warns about. The theft is finally admitted. The accountability is not. The confession is launching the next succession.

Source: The Star