THE STANDARD
OPINION
For years, the question of whether Kenya is ready for a rotational presidency has been a deceitfully calm volcano waiting to erupt. And it erupted at the funeral service of Hannah Mudavadi, the matriarch of one of the most illustrious Quaker families in Western. Ironically, the founding doctrine of Quakerism is “friendship and peace to all, and absolute abhorrence to all forms of violence and bloodshed”. Indeed, Quakers are better known as “the Friends’ Church”.
Were President Uhuru Kenyatta to borrow a leaf from the late US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and write his own version ‘Profiles in Courage’, ANC Party leader Musalia Mudavadi would, perhaps, be accorded the foremost chapter. Mudavadi stands out as the friend, who had the courage to prioritise national interest above the burning partisan desires of his ethno-lingual heritage. Mudavadi put his then fast-rising political star on the line by standing with Uhuru’s first bid for the pr