Political analyst Makau Mutua [PHOTO/kenya-today.com]
Political analyst Makau Mutua has said that it is the unwillingness to let go from the people of Central Kenya that is Kenya's biggest problem.
Mutua accused the Mount Kenya region of 'desperately clinging to power' and refusing to allow others to ascend to the seat.
In what he termed as 'Kikuyu political greed for power', Mutua said that Kenya will be on the right course the day the 'House of Mumbi' will agree to support someone else outside their community.
"The most important historical fact for Kenya’s inability to cohere into a nation is Kikuyu political greed for power," he said.
"I know many will take great umbrage at this statement. It’s simply a fact of Kenya’s political science, and any scholar worth her salt will readily admit it," Mutua added.
"Society pays me to think – and to be irreverent to un-interrogated, or uncomfortable truths. It’s my job to initiate difficult national conversations, and to go where others who are more conventional won’t. Mine is to call a spade by its name, and not a small spoon."