It is going to be the loneliest 48 hours the Deputy President has ever experienced. The moment senate proceedings start this morning, the beginning of the end will have started. 

The Swahili have a proverb for  Gachagua's streak of bad luck: Siku ya nyani kufa miti yote huteleza (All trees are slippery on a monkey's last day of life).

They have another, more encouraging, for a person in the DP's position: Baada ya dhiki faraja, whose equivalent in English is the saying 'It is darkest before the dawn'.