to stabilize a government that had been shaken. Kenyans know that he demanded and got shareholding.
The new shareholders assumed office with bloody hands and Kenyan tears for those unarmed protesters who were butchered by government sponsored goons out to repress the peaceful demonstrations against oppressive taxes and cost of living.
Why would party stalwarts take issue with bishops pointing out that there is blatant violation of human rights when the drama was being played out on the Kenyan streets and reported and recorded by the media.
This uncouth attempt to silence the church by veiled threats and intimidation fell squarely in the ambits of suppression of free speech. To suggest that the criticism should have taken place in private is to pretend that the issues raised are not of public interest.
There were many demonstrators that went missing during the protests that are yet to be accounted for and there seems to be no particular urgency in providing answers to the many families that have reported missing persons.
Since the demonstrations took place there has also been a spate of abductions and disappearances. Surprisingly the police seem to claim ignorance on the ongoings and one has to wonder if the mythical deep state actually exists.
How would you otherwise explain how an opposition leader from Uganda was abducted during a private visit in Kenya and produced in a court in Uganda the next day while the vigilant Kenyan police feign ignorance.
The only plausible conclusion is that the Kenyan police is super incompetent or there is a police section within the police force that runs the country and the rest are only mobile bank tellers who report on duty every morning to extort not protect Kenyans.
For a fee this shadowy force can be contracted to abduct legal refugees who have sought political asylum in Kenya and yet Kenya is a signatory to the refugee protocol that guarantees the safety of those that seek asylum.
Ochieng is aware that the president has a profound understanding of democracy on paper and never stops reminding the citizens that Kenya has a vibrant and robust democracy and especially the freedom of speech as long as you are not a bishop.
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Kenyans are learning that the democratic process by which they think they choose their leaders has long been hijacked by political thugs and those exhorting Kenyans to exercise their civic duty only want Kenyans to rubber-stamp their political crimes.
During his state of the nation speech, the president averred that no leader can hope to succeed unless he listened to the people and comprehensively addressed their concerns. That sentence alone proves beyond doubt that the whole speech was written for him.
The president is on record as saying that any shortcoming in the application of democracy was due to a lack of a competent principal assistant, whom he personally chose, but that failing has been rectified by the impeachment and the future is rosy.
The bishops beg to differ and remind the president that he has a plethora of unkept campaign promises and his knee jack reaction to blame any issue on the incompetence of the previous regime does not hold water halfway through his term.
This is perhaps the reason why there was a strange attempt to increase the presidential term to seven years to emphasize that it is not his incompetence but the lack of time to implement the many fantabulous projects that involve dubious foreign companies.
The bishops further point out that the president seems to have adopted misplaced priorities and if he actually listens, as he claimed he does, then his affordable housing would have been avoided and you certainly don’ t replace a working NHIF with a dodgy SHIF.
Now that the president has cancelled the infamous Adani projects and received a standing ovation in parliament which only proves that Kenya has an asinine parliament, Kenya should breathe a sigh of relief and exhale?
But Ochieng is not fooled in the least bit, he has watched the president renege on the finance bill and re-introduce taxes that are blood stained. So, Adani may only have exited through the front door to reenter through the emergency door if not the window or roof! The last word is that anyone who would have gone into business with a group like Adani in the first place and resisted bailing
out until it was internationally untenable, cannot be trusted to ditch his partners in crime. Adani tentacles are still in Kenya.
The posture and demeanor of this administration indicates that it is hellbent on selling Kenyans fool’ s gold mpende msipende. There is a good reason why Kenya has been put on the watch list of global countries that facilitate money laundering.
Isn’ t it telling that the people that were castigating the bishops and making the most noise are the same people whose foreign accounts are said to have been frozen in connection with the Adani scandal. Pray tell, what do Kenyan politicians have foreign accounts for?
Could it be that is the final destination of the trillions of dollars borrowed in the name of Kenyans to finance phantom projects, could that be the real reason why the Kenya shilling is inexplicably strong and foreign reserves are at an all-time high?
Kenyans are being told that the economy is stable as manufacturing companies depart en masse while others declare redundancies. Is Kenya quietly being mortgaged by a cabal of gluttonous politicians? That is what the bishops called a selfish agenda!