To those presidential candidates who gloriously conceded,
thank you. They fought a good fight but that good was not good enough. To me,
Dida came out on top! He made history by surpassing the iron lady, having been
known for less than a month to the polls. This is when I get the chance to brag
a bit. That man taught me in form 3T, class of 2009, Lenana School. I will not
lie about how I used to carry chalk for him or rub the blackboard when it was
his time to teach. He was very good at skiving!
This whole election process has taught me a thing or two. I
have devised another hook up line that might get me the one! It goes like: “Hey
babe! I am planning to run a family; can you be my running mate? Would you take
my contact and save it as FH (Future Husband), hoping one day you will knock F
out”
I deeply sympathize with any foreign journalist who was
intending to cover an award-winning story on March 4th. The Maasai
Mara is open for you. We have wildlife here. The national geographic channel
could do with a few footages of carnivorous animals devouring the herbivorous
and that kind of thing.
THE SUPREME COURT AND THE ICC
The highest
court on the land is going through a litmus test. The global audience is waiting for that
ruling. The ruling will leave an indelible mark in the history of this country.
The case before the bench has substantial gravity in and around our borders. Instead
of only the attorney general requesting to be considered in the hearing as amicus curiae (friend of the court),
methinks the Supreme Court could do with a little help from the telescopic
vision of one Paul Muite who has the ability to see right through that evidence
presented before the judges constituting the bench and determine it’s validity
within just a glance! This will save the country a great deal of time,
resources and butterflies in the stomach. I doubt whether it is humanly
possible for six people to comb through thousands of pages in two weeks and
have the time to deliberate on the issues raised exhaustively. Isn’t it too just
too hectic?
What the
election free and fair again? We may want to see things not as they are but as
we are and that will be a bad intellectual mistake. I will not speculate. Let
us all wait.
FOREIGN INTERETS
In my humble
opinion, I guess it’s time the Hague-based court gave us a break! Can’t we put
our house in order? Do we need to wash our dirty linen in public? Aren’t we a
sovereign people?
Prior to the
poll, European envoys had issued statements that clearly suggested which side
they were on. Does Britain still want us that badly after we divorced back in
the 60’s? Why do they still want to bully us around every now and then? What
does “essential contact” mean? I’m not only talking about Kenya here, I’m
talking for Africa. Do we interfere with affairs of our envoy friend’s from UK,
France and Switzerland?
The
international community (read UK, the Embassy of Finland, the Royal Netherlands
Embassy in Kenya, and Germany among others) is waging a form of warfare against
Kenya’s electoral results. If you have the slightest shade of doubt, visit the
website of the civil society group (www.africog.org/content/funders-and-financials)
that unsuccessfully sued the IEBC to stop the vote tally following the general
election, and now is part of a civil society lawsuit to nullify the results of
the presidential poll. That group is
almost wholly funded by the aforementioned. He who pays the piper calls the
tune.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Now, more
than ever, the social media platform has changed the game from manual to
digital. Status updates and tweets have become the new machetes, arrows, G3’s,
AK47s and the like. I will sincerely
give up any Facebook and Twitter “friends” and “followers” engaging in this
criminal behavior.
I’m even
considering changing my username.
Stereotyping is at an all time high.
Just because my name suggests my ethnic
background, it does not automatically imply that I subscribe to a particular
school of thought. I am, and will always be a critical, autonomous and most of
all, a free thinker. Yes I have my reasonable level of prejudice and bias but
please, resist the temptation to assume my political inclination. If you are
that kind of person (perpetrating negative ethnicity) and you are in my friend’s
list, I’ll cut you off so quick without you even knowing it, delete your number
today and hit you with a “who is this?” tomorrow. I’m saying that I will
purposefully refuse to remember you. Call it deliberate memory loss.
At the end
of the day, whether it is jubilee or cord that ascends to the mantle of
leadership and the house on the hill gets a new occupant, we need each other
badly. Remember Raila and Uhuru are in a political competition. It is highly
likely that they will be swilling champagne and cutting business deals in the
same members’ clubs. Clubs you and I cannot afford to lounge in! Do not throw
all caution to the wind and put yourself on the line out of some misplaced
sense of ethnic comradeship. Let not the violence shift from the keyboard to an
actual machete.
On a lighter
note, social media ethics have dwindled. Many are times jokes and ideas are
copy pasted without acknowledging the source. Fan pages duplicating each other
every other time is quite boring. Well, I’m quite aware that no one has the
monopoly of ideas or jokes for that matter but it is sufficiently annoying.
Plagiarism must be discouraged.
PARTING SHOT
What’s up
with this new advert that pops up just before prime time news? It is clearly
encouraging cheating. It used to be “wacha mpango wa kando”, now it is turned
to “weka cd mpangoni”. The society is working with some dynamics I have no clue
about. Is the ad in bad faith or is it plainly realistic?
Over and
out!
