By Anderson Ojwang
In a tactical move after three successful political rallies in Busia, Kitengela, and Kakamega, Linda Mwananchi is taking a brief break to embark on planning the next political course and activities.
Embakasi East MP Babu Owino said the group was temporarily taking a break from its activities in honor of the holy month of Ramadan before embarking on countrywide rallies.
Babu said the team will now engage in planning the next activities for the next 10 months up to December.
“Next we will go to Mombasa after Ramadan. We are meeting next week to discuss the timetable. We want to produce a timetable which will run up to December,” he said.
He said after December the team will again embark on activities leading to the August elections.
“After December, we will pick up from January up to the election period. This thing is going to be massive, and in the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” he said.
Babu described Linda Mwananchi as a seed that grows into a forest and said that is why the group, just like a seed, is growing bigger day by day.
“We have just planted a seed. The power of a seed is to be fruitful. The reason why mankind was created is to be fruitful. The power of a seed, when planted, produces a tree. That tree will produce fruits. In those fruits are seeds. Those seeds, when planted, will produce many trees and eventually turn into a forest. That is what we are working at. We will work with the power of being fruitful, and we will also work with the power of multiplication,” he said.
Just like in the biblical parable of the mustard seed, the Linda Mwananchi group, from a tiny, humble beginning, is fast becoming and growing into the country’s expansive and prolific political outfit and movement.
The sacking became the political matchbox that transformed the country’s political landscape, with Sifuna posting on his X handle, “Tukutane Kite.”
From Busia, Kenya’s border with Uganda, the wave began even before the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) National Executive Council (NEC) sat in Kilifi County to sack the party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna from the seat. The Busia wave caused panic within and across the political divide in the country and ODM, which culminated in the NEC, under party leader Dr. Oburu Oginga, sacking Sifuna.
Kenyans of goodwill also donated a van fully equipped with a public address system after the last weekend’s mess in Kitengela.
Sifuna wrote on his X handle, “We saw you struggling with sound. Bwana kumbe you guys are serious! They will not believe! Sasa ni wapi tunaeza chinja na kuchemedsha hizi 20 nimepewa hapo Kakamega?”
Siaya Governor James Orengo said the spirit of the enigma, the late Raila Amolo Odinga, has reincarnated in the group.
“This thing is huge. It is a tsunami. It is unstoppable. No force on earth is going to stand in our way. Rest assured, with their machinations, this meeting is going to take place, just like they tried in Kitengela and the meeting went on.
They better be prepared for this huge movement of the people and by the people,” he said.
The Kakamega Linda Mwananchi rally has not only caused panic and fear in Oburu’s Linda Ground and the United Opposition but also in President William Ruto.
It has pushed the United Opposition from boardroom meetings, unending press conferences, and monotonous campaign rounds in Mt. Kenya, Ukambani, and Narok to move to other parts of the country.
Stung by the emerging new political wave, President Ruto on Monday held a consultative meeting with MPs from Kakamega County, in what appeared to be a move aimed at containing the group and possibly diminishing the gains so far.
The train is currently witnessing an upsurge of new followers, including members of county assemblies, parliamentary aspirants, gubernatorial aspirants, women representatives, and other aspirants across the country.
