Apparently Kenyans do not value peace
and cooperation because now those in the
same party have formed opposing views
and there is open competition among those
that are supposed to be pulling together for
development.
If the Kibra by-election is anything to go by
then Ochieng’s conclusion is that Kenyans
love chaos or perhaps corruption cannot
take place in an orderly country hence the
need to manufacture crisis to enable the
lords of corruption operate.
Why would members of the same party
campaign against each other to the point of
openly supporting opposition candidates?
What is the point of having parties if they
do not stand for any ideology except as
vehicles to power and money?
It was quite apparent that the contest in
Kibra was backed by people with deep
pockets and money was flowing freely in the
high profile campaigns that pitted brother
against brother while uniting brothers with
their enemies against their brothers.
Ochieng had thought that the just
concluded and expensive currency change
was conducted to ensure that money
laundering, counterfeit
money
and
corruption were stopped in their tracks but
some people seem to have endless supply of
cash.
True a mere seven billion vanished into thin
air during the exchange and we use the word
mere not to depict the sum as trivial but to
compare the sum to the mega frauds that
have happened in Kenya where the figures
stolen dwarfs the missing number.
The amounts stolen would have built an
electric SGR rail to Kigali without needing
to ask for financial help from Uganda and
Rwanda. Perhaps the two countries opted
out of our grand rail plan because they did
not want to be party to grand corruption.
Ochieng feels that the use of the word
corruption sanitizes what is happening in
Kenya which should be called just plain
theft and robbery by public officials. The
theft has been institutionalized at both the
national and county governments.
Ochieng has lost count of how many
criminal cases involving fraud by public
figures are pending at both the National
and County levels and thanks to the new
constitution the perpetrators are walking
free to enjoy their loot and interfere with
the cases in court.
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All things said and done the conten-
tious Huduma Namba registration has
gone completely quiet with a lot of peo-
ple holding slips of paper supposedly to
claim their cards but all is silent on that
front. It is difficult not to be a conspir-
acy theorist when the government goes
mum.
Soon it will be okay to put ones fraud cases
in one’s CV as proof that one had risen to
high office in the government and that one
can be trusted to play ball with the powers
that be to ensure that the national cake is
shared by a minority.
That is perhaps why the Chief Justice is so
enraged by the slashing of his slush fund.
He is justified to wonder what wrong he
has done not to be driven in a Mercedes
500 like all other heads of slush funds and
why he is being denied judges to sleep on
the job.
The judiciary has after all played its role in
ensuring that corruption (we said theft) is
perpetuated and that a raft of injunctions
are always in place to ensure that the
guilty are never punished and are out on
favorable bails and bonds.
They have cooperated to the extent that
they have found that the swearing of
Baba as the people’s president was not
a treasonable crime but merely a public
pantomime that ODM had organized and
chastised those that saw mischief in the
proceedings as disillusioned.
It will soon be apparent that the
unfortunate exiling of the people’s
General, who is a bona fide Kenyan of
good standing, to Canada was the work
of an overzealous immigration officer and
the cowardly NASA members that did not
attend just missed good entertainment.
While all this was happening Eliud
Kipchoge was busy organizing his ‘No
human is limited’ marathon challenge in
Vienna and Ochieng now understands
why it was staged out of the country
since everyone knows that ‘No Kenyan
is limited’ especially by casual words like
morality.
The only thing that Kenyans were
impressed about in the event was the
amount of money that Kipchoge made
in under two hours and not the arduous
training and time that went into the
preparation, hence it was not surprising
that all KRA wanted was a piece of the
cake not the glory.
As the last word for this year Ochieng
would like to hope that in the coming
year 2020 the people of Kenya will
somehow acquire a 20/20 vision (the
term used to express normal visual
acuity) for the country and steer back
into a love and vision for the country.
Where there is no vision, the people
perish is an age old admonition to
leaders and it is further stated that the
nation rises and falls on its leadership.
There is only one legacy that is worth
chasing and that is leaving a country
better that you found it.
The surest way to disaster is to allow the
scenes of Kibra to be replicated in the
general elections which we should not
even be discussing as they are over two
years away. A vision does not mean one
takes their eyes off what is happening
today.
Tomorrow is created by the combined
actions of what we do today and we shall
reap tears if we persist in destroying our
institutions and decency in the pursuit of
money. Theft is theft in any language and
deifying thieves cannot be the portion of
Kenyans. Kenyans please desist!