Ford Kenya Party leader and Speaker of the N.A. Dr Moses Wetang’ula…Photo/IP.
Political commentary
By SNR Caleb Kundu
I have watched with keen interest as former Bungoma Governor Wycliffe Wangamati and Hon. Didmus Barasa wage their noisy crusade against Speaker Dr. Moses Wetang’ula.
Let me be blunt: their open assault, camouflaged through attacks on Hon. Tim and the Dominico family is not politics—it is folly and a dangerous gamble that will end in regret.
I speak not merely from observation but from history.
Political science has long taught us the law of institutional supremacy: individuals rise and fall, but institutions endure.
Wangamati once believed county power was his fortress yet today he speaks like a dethroned king, forgotten even in his own backyard.
Barasa, meanwhile, flaunts his UDA card as though popularity within a party translates into untouchable power.
He forgets that a national party answers to national interests not personal grudges.
History in Luhya politics is unforgiving. Those who chose to raise their voices against Wetang’ula—be it Musikari Kombo, Wafula Wamunyinyi or Eseli Simiyu—were all swept into political oblivion.
Their stories should be cautionary tales, yet Wangamati and Barasa march toward the same abyss.
Our own wisdom warns us: when you cut down a good tree, you regret when the shade is gone.
By attacking Wetang’ula, they are hacking at the very tree whose shade once sheltered them.
I know Wetang’ula’s silence has unsettled many but let me remind Wangamati and Barasa: silence is not weakness.
It is strategy. The Speaker’s quietness allows his enemies to reveal their arrogance while he consolidates his power patiently and deliberately.
In politics, arrogance dies quickly; patience endures.
If these two persist, their political lives will not end with fireworks but with slow decay—an embarrassing withering into irrelevance.
Ford Kenya has outlasted louder storms than theirs and Wetang’ula has weathered fiercer battles.
I say this without fear of contradiction: attacking the house of a silent giant is not bravery.
It is suicide and when the dust settles it will not be Wetang’ula who regrets.
SNR Caleb Kundu
Biochemist & SG, Kimilili Ford Kenya Youth League
