Why Dr Malombe Is On High Demand As Competitors Suffer Loose Bowels

By Guest Commentator

It is without any doubt. There is something likeable about Dr Julius Makau Malombe, the man who set Kitui on a path of real development and firsts that today remain the envy of many. It is no wonder that an entire Kitui population is calling on and wooing Dr Malombe, the pioneer governor to come back and rescue the county which is on a free fall under the juakali administration of Kaluki Ngilu.

“Yes, we demand Dr Malombe to come back. And that demand leaves him with little option because we are determined to go to whatever length and ensure he contests, not only contests but recaptures the seat,” said a voter from Ikutha in Kitui South.

And true to this word, a delegation from Kitui south visited Dr Malombe at his Ithiiani home sometimes this ending year and pleaded with him. If only he could hear their wailing, suffering and respond to the yawning gap of leadership, they pleaded. 

Dr Malombe, having carefully weighed his moves as he always does, agreed. So this call of desperation is reverberating from Mitamisyi to Kasaaala. From Kanyangi to Damsa in Endau. And right at the heart of Kitui Central and its traditional base. All over and everywhere.

Among the competitors, there is nobody else who evokes instant likeability like Dr Malombe. He is a straight forward man, a man of his word. He means what he says, he is development conscious and he puts the interests of the people right deep inside his heart.

Unlike the other excitable pretenders who are sworn leeches, Dr Malombe puts others before self. These are just a few of many, many phrases that are being used by disillusioned Kitui population that is hungering for good leadership and unbiased service delivery.

Now there is nothing to write home about Kaluki Ngilu as far as good and focused leadership is concerned. Not even a morsel. There is no an iota of comparison between Dr Malombe and Kaluki Ngilu who is a retired secretary. The two, by character and modus operandi are like Jesus and Satan.

We all know who Kaluki is. A cartel operator, swindler, con artist, soothsayer, a perfectionist liar. Worse of all, she is a looter and pilfer per excellence. Of course we know she is a rubble rouser. A charlatan who stings with her bulging eyes and lying tongue. We also know under Ngilu Kitui is on a death bed….look at the health sector, dilapidated roads, dead agriculture – it is all hopelessness and vanity.

These feelings are held dear from here to Kaliku to Mwangeni to Winzyeei to Ikota Mwithe. All corners. Even incompetents of similar ilk who were banished from public leadership by a distraught electorate have proclaimed as much atop graveyards.

Lunatics on prowl 

But here is where the lunacy sets in. It is something beyond lunacy actually. To say or even imagine a governor who is coming in to take over from Ngilu should also be like Ngilu - in character, form and filth is to miss the point. Curiously, this is being said by her former admirers as they hawk around a charlatan who has been rejected at home and outside. The narrative hawkers have in the past described both Ngilu and their pet aspirant as political thugs. This, they say loudly in bars, backwater hotels and even in streets.

The needy handout seekers know the truth as it tears them apart like a bout of hot diarrhea. But today they tell us that a Kaluki replacement should also espouse a Kaluki persona – in thuggery, thievery, pilferage and self aggrandizement. How awfully silly?

In this defeatist endeavor they have a candidate. However, a peep into the candidate’s past would leave you instantly blind – what with the ghouls and ghosts and skeletons sitting in his wardrobe?

Kitui population is asking ‘What would be the rationale of replacing a thief with a thief? Or worse thief for that matter? But this desk can tell you this; there is something about handouts and death of brain, indeed something that calls for a thesis! And especially when the handout seekers are cheap and needy street howlers who are morally bankrupt. These ghouls can easily auction their balls for one day survival.

Back to the gist of the matter though.  The replacement for reject Kaluki Ngilu is somebody with a workable track record. A person who flinches at the thought of theft of public money. A person who cannot squander and pilfer. A Kaluki replacement must be sober, straight, firm. A person whose word is bankable. A caretaker of public purse, not populist bigot or a political whore. Not a racketeer. 

And that replacement is Dr Julius Malombe, who’s coming in to RESTORE Kitui to her lost glory. 

Interestingly, Dr Malombe's  popularity and likeability which is sweeping the county like a hurricane has left competing makangas and windvanes with loose bowels! But Kitui has decided.