Africa-Press – Lesotho. Muckraker appreciates that Nkaku Kabi is desperate to be the next prime minister. It’s fine. There is nothing wrong with being ambitious. But that is no reason for him to allow himself to be rented as a clown in the circus in parliament.
He keeps allowing himself to be leased by the same jokers who insist on suggesting his name in their vote of no-confidence motions. Each time a motion fails Kabi becomes the butt of cruel jokes.
They are toying with his emotions by promising him the impossible. Pesy-Pesy must have mercy on Kabi, the man has suffered enough heartbreaks. Muckraker shed a tear this week when she saw Kabi being dragged into another motion whose failure might as well have been predicted by a Qaqatu donkey.
It was as pointless as trying to contaminate Maqalika with your pee. As fruitless as attempting to mop Katse Dam dry with a fatuku. After the motion was resoundingly defeated, Kabi rose to be the main act in the circus show.
He was asking if he had been given the premiership. He wasn’t in parliament during the vote. Perhaps he was murmuring a prayer somewhere outside. He came back to find that the gods were still laughing at him.
He has become the Sisyphus of Lesotho’s politics. Every week he pushes a boulder called ‘no confidence’ to parliament and then rolls it back to his village, only to do it again the next week.
It’s not that Kabi doesn’t deserve to be the prime minister. No. It doesn’t mean Mr Softie deserves it either. This is simply the politics of the tummy at play.
Majoro’s MPs, who are ministers, will continue to cling on to him as long as he keeps them employed. The DC is watching the pig called ABC fry in its own fat.
Replacing Majoro with Kabi would give the ABC access to state resources to campaign. There is nothing complex about that strategy. It was handed to the DC by the ABC.
Some people have asked Muckraker about Kabi’s options. The answer is that he has none. He cannot get the desired results because his formula was wrong from the start.
Even if the formula was correct, Kabi and his people are guilty of underestimating the complexity of the maths problem they had to solve. Watch them now as they scramble for calculators.
The numbers are not adding up because they are not there. Hence Kabi is bothering the Speaker with inane inquiries about the premiership. “Have I been given the premiership,” he asked with a straight face.
No. He remains a backbencher because he cannot even plot his way out of a matchbox. He and his cabal cannot see a bus until they are under it. They wouldn’t know a political strategy even if it slaps them in the face, pulls a middle finger and does the mokhibo dance as it walks away. They cannot see beyond their noses. Muckraker was therefore not surprised when they got the strategy, tactics and logistics wrong.
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