Entry with a bang! Koimburi shows Uhuru what to expect with sarcastic scathing victory speech – Kenyan_Report

If yesterday’s victory speech by Juja’s MP-elect, Mr. George Koimburi is anything to go by, then the fiery tanga tanga brigade of Ndindi Nyoro, Alice Wahome and Kimani Ichungwa among others have not only gotten a new member, but also one that’s more sharp-tongued, and testy than even they are.

Flanked by a battery of tanga tanga leaders, George Koimburi seems to have decided to make it very clear how he will be operating, and the kind of style that the president can expect from him.

Moments after the official announcement of the results by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission which declared him the winner, Koimburi issued a speech in which he appeared to mock president Uhuru Kenyatta.
Borrowing a page from his mentor Moses Kuria who’s known for his sarcasm, Koimburi said he was taking the opportunity to thank the president for not picking sides or interfering with the by-election, but rather, standing aside and allowing the course of democracy to flow and the people to make their choice.

This was open and blunt sarcasm from the soon-to-be Juja MP, considering that during the campaigns, he had constantly and fiercely complained of victimisation and state interference from Jubilee, and the government.

George Koimburi had a major fallout with Jubilee ever since decamping from the party after Jubilee decided to hand the party’s nomination ticket for the then upcoming by-election to Susan Njeri Waititu, the widow of Hon. Waititu who succumbed to cancer, occasioning the by-election.

Koimburi, one of the strong aspirants, claimed he had been receiving threatening calls from anonymous phone numbers and that he believed some people had been contracted to monitor his every move.
Addressing the press in Ruiru town, he, at the time, alleged some people were tracking him down since he defected from Jubilee.

Kuria was more candid and pronounced than his protégée yesterday. He attacked the president directly, wondering whether the would even agree to a peaceful transfer of power, or if he was planning on sticking to the presidency.

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