A large wheelbarrow at the United Democratic Alliance Centre in Nairobi. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard]

Logically, it would have been the wheelbarrow boarding the tractor and not the other way around. But politics is hardly ever logical. It is mostly transactional and with the right price, even tingas can be made to fit atop wheelbarrows.

Well, Tinga, the opposition veteran Raila Odinga, insists he has not boarded the Kenya Kwanza vessel. In the wake of the poaching of some of his most prized assets, Tinga fired a letter to assert neither his Chungwa party nor the Azimio coalition had entered into a coalition with President William Ruto’s UDA.

But actions have been known to hold more weight than words. Few have bought the idea that Tinga was unaware his four lieutenants - his deputies Hassan Joho and Wycliffe Oparanya, Chungwa’s chair John Mbadi and National Assembly Minority Leader Opiyo Wandayi–were crossing over into Kenya’s Canaan, the land of flying tiny benderas on fuel guzzlers.

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