There is a popular social media blogger who once worked in the office of a powerful Interior PS. Back then, she was well known — not for policy brilliance, not for legislative drafts — but for what critics jokingly called “horizontal engineering.”
Now she has carried those same habits into the United Opposition.
To her, everything revolves around “horizontal engineering.”
Strategy? Horizontal.
Loyalty? Horizontal.
Advancement? Horizontal.
She cannot think beyond inspecting ceilings.
If there is a new political formation, she is there.
If there is a rising political star, she is closer.
If there is a ladder leaning against a high office, she is already halfway up — checking the ceiling quality.
No wonder some whisper the nickname: Jezebel.
Like the biblical Jezebel, she operates not always from the podium but from the corridors. She thrives on proximity to power. She shapes whispers. She rearranges alliances like throw pillows. Her strength is not ideology — it is positioning inspecting ceilings!
Today she is passionately aligned with Gachagua.
Tomorrow she is intellectually fascinated by Kindiki.
The next day she is analyzing Matiang’i’s “leadership aura.”
And before you can say coalition agreement — she is back again where the wind seems strongest.
A true political chameleon.
But here is the comedy of it all.
Some people confuse proximity to power with permanent power.
They believe climbing is the same as building.
They believe being near the throne is equal to owning it.
But political seasons change.
The “Gatumia Karogi” era — the stirring of pots, the whispering in corridors, the strategic ceiling inspections — eventually expires.
Because while ceilings are interesting to inspect, nations are built from foundations.
And fame built on ceiling inspection cannot compete with leaders who are busy laying bricks.
