Tough as nails this Martha Karua

• The public Martha Karua is as intransigent as she is belligerent.
• Like Thatcher she is ready to face down her adversaries any time and anywhere, including on their own turf.
• Nobody in Kenya’s political arena sneers and grimaces more menacingly than Karua.

But nobody in Kenya’s political arena sneers and grimaces more menacingly than her.

It is why she would dare those in the Party of National Unity (PNU) who are interested in the presidency to come out and face her. She is a formidable opponent in a verbal slugfest and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, who was her target here, and others have kept their counsel and distance.

But what would be Karua’s platform as she goes for the presidency?

Most of the memorable battles Thatcher fought within and outside the Conservative Party, between Number 10 and Number 11 Downing Street, between the Tories and Labour, and in and outside the United Kingdom, revolved around the economy.

I do not know what Martha Karua’s economic philosophy or blueprint is, but I know the Thatcherites had a social as well as economic policy which stipulated that owners of assets, especially homes, became independent and self-sufficient.

Let me hear yours Martha. Fight your corner furiously, madam. But, think about a more kindhearted you as you plot your road to State House.

If I did not vote for Martha, it would not be because I am not ready to vote for a woman. No, it would be because I would not be ready to vote for that woman.

That means she need not worry about me. What should worry her is that she might, like Amos Kimunya before her, self-immolate in the furnace of self-importance!

And that, incidentally, is what happened to Margaret Thatcher as Michael Heseltine led the internal revolt against a once heroic Tory leader.

Kwendo Opanga is a media consultant. Apexmedian@yahoo.ca