Those who remember Matibas homecoming-from Rondon in 1992 will attest that it would have put MKs one in 2002 or even RAOs more recent one to shame.Until that point Genyans did not know the magnitude of his illness as his handlers had marketed him as fit as a fiddle-through Pius Nyamoras'Society' Magazine and Njeru Gatabakis 'Finance'-whose newsrooms the police would raid every other week.Good as Matiba may have been he would not have in opinion made a good President due to incapacitation.Age was taking its toll on Ford Kenya's Jaramogi too.I think MK was still our best bet then

I was a kid. I just remember my uncle telling someone something like "Kesho mambo ya Moi inaisha, Matiba anarudi"

ON MATIBA HEALTH.

His condition has taken a lot out of me. When I look at him, and I know what he was — active, kind and generous, honest, a man who did not see anything as a barrier. I have been with him since the time he came back from detention having suffered a stroke. I have seen him through the worst as far as health is concerned because when we got to England, he suffered a second stroke. And because of the bleeding that had occurred, they said they had to operate and remove the blood. They had told me that touching the brain may cause some problem. When he eventually came round, he was a different person. And we stayed in that hospital for three months. He couldn’t even speak. I had to teach him speech, like you teach a child — to do ABCD. A-a. B-b. I made cards, like flashcards, and ask him ‘what’s this? What’s this, you know, that kind of thing.’ And then eventually, a little writing and then I would tell him to write the same way — you know, like you would do with a kindergarten child.

At the end of three months, the doctor said, well, ‘we have done what we can and we think the best thing is for you to go to a rehabilitation centre where Ken can probably have some improvement on his ability to speak and also probably his ability to walk. But as far as we are concerned, Mrs Matiba, we have to tell you, will have to look after your husband all the years ahead of you’. So I asked them, ‘you mean he is going to remain a cabbage?’ It was bitter but he said ‘yes.’ I just felt devastated.

But anyway we went to this rehabilitation centre and we started again from scratch. They were very good because both walking, speech, even showing him how to dress himself, how to tie his shoes and that kind of thing. And he made progress. He could now begin to walk a little, eventually he could walk quite a distance and one day he disappeared from the hospital and we had to look for him in the bushes just gallivanting. We were there for four months. Then we took up a flat close to the rehabilitation centre so that I could take him once a week, then eventually once a month and that went on until we moved back to London. He was supposed to have physiotherapy, but he refused, saying that ‘God is going to heal me.’ But he kept on walking little distances and eventually, Ken was walking five miles, and on to eight miles. So by that time I think we were ready to come back. But politicians had already started coming to him because this whole thing about what had happened to him had made him quite popular back home. You will probably remember his return day how it was. But of all things, I never thought that he would go back into politics. So my heart just sank when he decided that he would go back into politics. He was into politics again in 1997, but he was beginning to get disillusioned. Then after that he stood for elections in 2007. I kept on asking him ‘why? You have not campaigned. You know you have been away.’ He came here (at Ukunda) after 2004. He was staying here. He had no contact with the people back home except with the politicians who would visit him.

hakuna your tatas!!

Let me ask...do you lose your locus standi to talk about the good aspects of a person just because you didn't agree with them politically?
Let's assume that the person in question did something you never agreed with - does that define him?

hakuna your tatas!!

Let me ask...do you lose your locus standi to talk about the good aspects of a person just because you didn't agree with them politically?
Let's assume that the person in question did something you never agreed with - does that define him?

ohhh come on!!!!

These people did not take his passport like Miguna.

They tried to kill him. When that did not succeed, they finished, not him, his family's businesses.

These Kanu people you love to wake up at 4am for are very bad people. I don't need to say it, even Satan is aware.

What's happening now is that the common man is being told exactly how bad some of these people really were.

Imagine someone poisoning you, taking your wealth. Then the asshole has the audacity to come to your funeral to sing how great you were.

In other countries, it's legal to shoot such hypocrites.