The fireworks by President Uhuru Kenyatta at Kasarani on Sunday directed at perhaps a group of MPs allied to DP William Ruto is just a repeat of what his father did 50 years ago.
But the difference is, Sunday's platform was meant to celebrate a church function while in 1969, Jomo Kenyatta was on a roadside rally in Kisumu.
In both instances, the father and the son were warning political detractors, expressing their fury openly in public, something rare for Heads of State.
At Kisumu in 1969, Jomo Kenyatta warned Oginga Odinga led Kenya People's Union against sabotage, vowing to crush completely from Kenya politics.
Months later after the Kisumu fracases, Jomo Kenyatta banned KPU, sending Odinga to home detention. Since then, Kenya remained a single party state until 1992.
And at Kasarani on Sunday, his furious son, Uhuru Kenyatta, openly warned MPs allied to DP Ruto, accusing turn of undermining him and his government through persistent politicking.
“This “mikora” (thugs) we’ve chosen and are politicking, let them not think that I am their small boy,” said Uhuru as quoted by the Standard.
“It’s just that I said that I don’t want politics, let them not think that they can threaten me, I will weed them out wherever they go,” he said.
The son of Jomo warned the MPs against premature campaigns, adding that he would be forced to go to the villages and deal with them.
“If someone is a mheshimiwa let him go back to the village and build schools and (install) electricity with the monies that have been given. Stop moving around and saying how big (sic) you will be you are headed nowhere,” he said.