Indeed it was extraordinary

The proverbial Sword of Damocles hang precariously in the House for almost a week before it suddenly fell.
The House and country at large seem to have been held at ransom and the suspense on the air was reminiscent of the tick tack tock clock of the Apocalypse.
When he took to the chamber, the House Speaker Kenneth Marende, with authority and sage probably drawn from his ancestors of Wanga read and explained the content, letter and spirit of the law to the surprise, chagrin and shock of Honourable Members of parliament, who, in the whole week had reduced the House Business into the endless debate of who came first between the egg and the chicken.
Hook, line and sinker
The past one week had seen bitter words exchanged between members of the coalition even others calling for a snap election though the mechanism for handling the same is non existent. The country was treated to a replay of the Day of Long Knives premiering in the House early last year.
To diffuse this tension and return the House and by large extension the country, the Speaker acted in a manner least expected by both sides of the divide and decided to take over the leadership of the House Business Committee and refer the feuding parties back to the drawing table to consult of who would finally occupy that seat.
Even the man who had been appointed by the president to head the HBC found himself in unfamiliar waters when the letter from his boss to the speaker was trashed and rendered null.
Good Neighbourliness
Once again Tanzania, which has been Kenya's good neighbour and brother especially in tough times came to the rescue of the country. The Speaker borrowed strongly from the Tanzanian Constitution regarding the leadership of the House and it is from these clauses that the man from Emuhaya(Western Kenya) found more strength and authority to apportion himself power and with the will and stamina of a man in a catch twenty two situation he delivered his verdict with finally which left the whole House and Country by extension in awe and amazement.
Solomon the Sage.
It will be recalled that on Thursday last week when the stalemate broke officially, a man of cloth in the House (Rev.Mutava Musyimi-Gachoka MP) went divine and sold an idea to the Speaker and the House at large. His Kingdom experience reminded him of the sagacious leader of the olden day Israel-Solomon who decided to cut a kid fought for by two women into two.
With the humility of a man in the pulpit over the years and leader of church council in the country, the disturbed Rev. called on the Speaker to make reference to this story and save the country from degenerating into apathy, a situation still fresh in the minds of the citizenry.
Indeed the Speaker did not fail this man of cloth who, during his day in the helm of the church council and many at times in the pulpit had made tough and bitter decisions on some issues.
Reformed House
Perhaps the most interesting bit of yesterday's development was the reaction after the Speaker's ruling. Yes, it was a sigh of relief to many and to others, a raw deal. Almost all those who stood to contribute to the immediate motion congratulated the Speaker for his decision. However, hangovers lingered in the heads of others. They felt that the Speaker's decision should be contested and real definition of government and appointing authority be revisited.
What remains to be seen is the next course of action for the disintegrated coalition government on choosing the Leader of Government Business.