President Uhuru Kenyatta share a light moment with Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho at a past event. The two leaders have publicly shown their differences in the recent weeks. [Photo/Kenya Today]
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s recent show of anger over two ODM governors is a smart use of an instrument of power, which even Opposition leader Raila Odinga should copy to control NASA, political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi has said. The political scientist, widely known for accurately predicting the presidential winner of the 2013 general election using the ‘tyranny of numbers’ theory, says there is nothing wrong with showing a tough face in public when you are the president. “What is wrong with getting angry when you are the president?” the analyst says in a weekly YouTube video that focuses on political issues in Kenya. “The presidency is not a nunnery or a school of monks. It is a hard-core institution where anger is an instrument of power. Uhuru used it brilliantly.”This comes days after President Kenyatta lost his cool in Turkana and Mombasa over the actions of governors Joseph Nanok and Hassan Joho. “And he should not backslide from these tonnes of toughness. He should continue like this,” Mr Ngunyi, a former lecturer at University of Nairobi, says. Turning on to the Opposition, Ngunyi urges Raila to learn from Uhuru and use anger to control fellow NASA principals Moses Wetangula, Kalonzo Musyoka and Musalia Mudavadi. “In fact, Raila should borrow a leaf from the Uhuru tantrums. Like Uhuru, he should use anger as an instrument of control,” he says. “If Kalonzo and the others erupt before him, they will control NASA. And they will bury him instead,” he adds. According to lawyer J.M, a PhD candidate at Swiss MC University, ‘Uhuru has been a motionless log king’. “He allowed nondescript fellows to jump all over him,” the lawyer says in the same analytical video.“Anger is not necessarily bad. Anger is a tool of power that establishes control, hegemony and dominance,” the lawyer says. The absence of anger, the lawyer argues, means indifference, especially where ‘political stupidity is the order of the day’.“As Malcolm X taught us, evil flourishes because we are not angry enough to stop it,” he says, adding: “and this is why Uhuru Kenyatta must stay hungry and stay tough — even if it means faking it.”