The Biblical story of Jonah narrated by our local pastor today is the most famous account of a reluctant prophet. God commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh the capital city of the Assyrian empire. The people there were known for their wickedness and were enemies of Israel. Instead of obeying, Jonah tried to run away from God and went to the port of Joppa to board a ship sailing for Tarshish, the opposite direction of Nineveh.
While at sea, a violent storm broke out threatening to break the ship apart. the sailors were terrified and began praying and throwing cargo overboard to lighten the ship's load while Jonah was fast asnore. The sailors decided to cast the ballot on who the outcast was and the lot fell on Jonah. They dropped him into the sea where he was swallowed by a shark who vomitted him on the shores of Nineveh.
Edwin Sifuna is the modern day Jonah. He thinks he is hiding from baba Raila Odinga now that he is no more. Little does he know he is watching every step from above. Baba's last instructions was that ODM would never associate with Gachagua and his tribal ilk, but work on a broadbased formula with President William Ruto. However, Mr. Sifuna adamantly chooses to work with the enemies of 'Israel' against the wishes of the departed party leader.
The Edwin Sifuna group now wants us to believe that they are the revolutionaries who are able to save Kenyans from William Ruto. Yet, every day and moment, they prove to be chamelons and certified turncoats who have no known ideological grounding.
Edwin Sifuna publicly promised never to destroy Baba's party as he eulogized Jakom in Bondo. He is today the one leading a breakaway faction, that is not only keen on breaking ODM, but using Wiper Party colors and other funny brandings with adolescent slogans like 'Sisi ndio Sifuna'. Raila Odinga was a movement himself, but there is no day he personalized the movement around him, but always had it revolve around the people and the ideologies of the Orange party.
The very same Sifuna, who handed the bible and oath of office to Oburu Odinga and oversaw his swearing in during the party's NGC in Mombasa and announced that "now we have a party leader" is the one antagonizing his very own party leader, turning against him. Wonders never cease, that today we are even seeing turncoat revolutionaries.
The very Sifuna who could not even make it in Kanduyi and had to ride on the ODM wave to get elected in Nairobi, today feels he is more popular than the party. Yet, he refuses to walk out instead of rocking the boat from within. When Yonah refused to deliver the message of God the father to the people of Nineveh and chose to travel to Tarshish, the Lord poured his wrath and the sailors had to cast a ballot to find the outcast. At least Jonah saw that it was his own fault and advised he be thrown out of the ship.
Sifuna is the modern day Yonah of ODM and the NEC has unanimously cast the ballot and thrown him in the deep seas. Let the shark Uhuru Kenyatta swallow him. But even after being suspended, he chose the court option to keep clinging on the orange boat for his survival.
Baba left the ODM party in the broadbased government and Sifuna is here taking it in the opposite direction just like Jonah. He should stay in the fish's stomach for 3 days and repent or else the wrath of Baba will catch up with him very soon. Verily verily, the fate of Magerer Langat and the soft hands of the ODM men in white will catch up with him soon enough if he does not repent.
His faction also has another revolutionary in Caroli Omondi. The egregious liar who claims that he sponsored Raila Odinga's campaigns with 700 million shillings. He was the first person to match to Ruto's side even before broadbased happened. His revolutionary stand is fueled by envy, jealousy and resentment. He is bitterly asking how his nemesis John Mbadi could bag the CS for National Treasury yet he was the first person to cross the aisle and remains empty handed.
Revolutionary Anthony Kibagendi decamped to the Azimio side at the last minute, to opportunistically ride on the Luo votes in his constituency. Before that, he worked at Ruto's office and even rode on a wheelbarrow for his campaigns, not because he could not afford a four wheeler but because he believed in that revolution. How the litmus paper turned from yellow to blue was so quick and that is what awaits the very Linda Mwananchi faction.
Richard Onyonka believes in a revolution fueled by a different spirit. Not the spirit of Baba but that of Vodka and whiskey as was the American revolution against British brutality. He believes you have to be drunk as a skunk to save Kenya. Once sober, he forgets and resets to default settings seeking for bribes at the Senate Committee alongside his other revolutionaries-at-extortion.
Raila odinga might be gone, but he is watching from above and soon enough his wrath will land on some of those who have betrayed his course and what he believed in.