Let Alone Mboya, Go Look for Odinga

Ok, ok, when you’re extremely overjoyed by something you can easily get hysterical. And hysteria, frequently affecting high school girls in wanton attacks, is not a nice thing. It’s not like say, having extra levels of happiness within or letting that happiness overwhelm you. It’s more of that as it borders in madness, insanity or mere folly.

Yesterday, after Gor Mahia deservedly won the FKL Cup, the club’s fans were everywhere, physically, doing all the nonsensical, shouting all the hogwash, and singing heroic songs. They too rushed to have a kiss with their beloved building Nation Centre and offer leaves-libation there as they have done always (by the way Why Always me This?)

 It was an earned win for K’Ogalo for first, it returns the club to continental football championships where they will play against top club teams in Africa and second, gives it impetus as it struggles to find form in the Premier League now on its final lap. That’s all.

Now, here is the mother of stupidity. Reports say the joy-inebriated fans chose to dismantle (and probably steal pieces) the recently installed statue of Tom Mboya after camping around it for some time.

So how is a statue of a respected Kenyan related to Gor Mahia’s success? And was it necessary for these fans to vandalise it? Nothing else would underscore this silliness except blatant idiocy. Let alone this iconic individual, who, though most of us, including many of those fans did not see him alive nor met him, posses great history for all Kenyans.

It happens that Kenya’s Prime Minister, Right Honourable Raila Odinga was MIA in parliament yesterday when he was required to answer some pertinent questions about the alleged loss of funds meant for the Kazi Kwa Vijana programme. Considering that Mr Odinga was most required (don’t know if he’s still mia-ing) to say something about this brewing hot-potato and he seems to have been missing, wasn’t it prudent for those fans to help the Members of Parliament look for the PM instead of destroying a symbol of one of the country’s top icon? Thought so.