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Thursday must have been a grueling day for Kalonzo Musyoka. He dug himself into a hole, and didn’t stop digging until he was sure he was well and truly buried under a dirty heap of ignominy. CORD leadership had assembled in force to deliver its long-awaited verdict on the performance of Jubilee in government over the past year. Going by innumerable pointed hints preceding the CORD news conference, this verdict was going to be unforgiving indeed. They had noisily berated Jubilee of discrimination, ethnic profiling and failing to unite the country. Nobody will remember a thing about the news conference, thanks to Mr Musyoka. He was asked a question by a journalist, and he sought to know the journalist’s name before answering. However, as soon as Mr Musyoka learnt the journalist’s name, it was a wrap! “Thank you, Kennedy Mureithi; that name betrays it all. Absolutely. Thank you! I have nothing else to say.” Let us visit salient points of this sinister disclosure. Perhaps we start...

Cord co-principal Kalonzo Musyoka was a man under siege Thursday. This came following reports he had made insulting remarks against a journalist at a media briefing. Kalonzo was forced to clarify his remarks in which he told the journalist that a question he had asked suggested political leanings based on his ethnic background. “Indeed, it was with a light touch but I wish to apologize to him, the entire journalistic fraternity and anybody else who might feel the comments were offensive,” Kalonzo said, adding “I did have tea with Murithi and duly apologized for any hurt my remark would have caused.” But the Nation Media Group journalist Kennedy Murithi posted on Twitter that “nobody has apologized to me...I have NOT had tea with him, contrary to what his statement says.”  In his clarification, Kalonzo said his response had been prompted by failure by the journalist to identify himself and the media house he works for. To Kalonzo Musyoka, everything “I felt he had asked a m...