Facts are sacred and Uhuru wins Round One

We have consistently cautioned all those who underrate Uhuru Kenyatta. Somebody say Amen! Look, he realised that any third rate economist or two-bit researcher can infer any conclusion he prefers from a set of statistics. And as our mother newspaper 'The Standard' showed you, even the number 'zero' has serious, intrinsic value when placed diligently in any set of creative accounting.

So, when teachers had outfoxed and outshouted him on every street corner and even got the courts on their side, he came out fighting and declared "Can't Pay, Won't Pay" and stuck to his guns. When Cord came up with a set of figures to sink his ship, he was not one to just sit back and do some mumbo-jumbo about the state of the nation and state of the economy et cetera et cetera.

As it is, he had already stuck a foot in the mouth with statistics on regional salos not too long ago. So, on Mashujaa Day, he confounded friend and foe alike and stuck to figures on real things he could count on the ground, like the number of kids in schools, electricity poles erected, youths employed and deployed, kilowatts generated, drug/brew addicts saved, counties financed and blah, blah, blah! Beat that from Comeback Kid. 'Kamwana' deploying pure Machiavellian tactics.