In one of his articles, Prof Nyong’o, quotes Darrell Huff’s warning on numbers. Huff warns against developing blind faith in numbers since there is always ’terror in numbers.’
With Mutahi Ngunyi’s tyranny of numbers jingle, the legislators on the jubilee side have been freed from the capacity to think and make sound decisions. They have developed a blind faith in their large numbers in parliament and vote for or against any motion without taking time to understand the underlying contents of the motion.