Grapevine

Gachagua's darkest and spine-chilling 48 hours on the cross

If the Senate upholds his impeachment, DP Rigathi Gachagua's political career is over as he will never hold political office.

It is going to be the loneliest 48 hours the Deputy President has ever experienced. The moment senate proceedings start this morning, the beginning of the end will have started.

The Swahili have a proverb for Gachagua's streak of bad luck: Siku ya nyani kufa miti yote huteleza (All trees are slippery on a monkey's last day of life).

They have another, more encouraging, for a person in the DP's position: Baada ya dhiki faraja, whose equivalent in English is the saying 'It is darkest before the dawn'.

Gachagua, on a lonely path that could lead to political Siberia, will be biting his nails, hoping the second proverb holds true for him and that there is light at the end of the tunnel.