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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. 96 MAL33/19 ISSUE 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!