evidence gathering. In this they are aided
by the new constitution that basically states
that you do not arrest then investigate, you
investigate then arrest.
Bail or bond cannot be denied on the
strength of the word of the prosecution. The
principle that one is innocent until proven
guilty is at the core of what the executive
feels is a deliberate effort by the judiciary to
water down the fight.
Kenya is used to having a crooked judiciary
where for a long time the pocket power of
an individual determined the type of justice
received. It is not yet lost to memory that
when Justice Ringera took office his first
action was radical surgery in the judiciary.
Apparently, it was not enough, given the
calls to the chief justice to put his rotten
house in order. The perception that justice
is for sale in Kenya has undermined the
rule of law and one of the unfortunate side
effects is the rampant extra-judicial killings
as people look for alternative remedies to
justice.
The now famous
handshake
hap-
pened and to the
chagrin of the nay-
sayers it seems to
be holding firm
giving the country
the much needed
respite from nega-
tive politics where
everything the gov-
ernment did was
perceived as nega-
tive.
They have been so quiet one begins to
wonder if any debate is going on in any
of the two chambers and it brings back to
the table a question we have asked before
– what do the two houses do that cannot
be done by one and how do we know they
are working.
We are facing the type of lull that
comes before a storm and we just hope
that as the storm comes, it is not an
announcement that Kenya has become
a province of China and that the new
education syllabus has made mandarin a
compulsory language.
We would assume that as the arm of
government that makes laws they would
currently be working overtime to ensure
that the executive got the type of laws that
help to stamp out corruption but as many
of them would be the first to be netted,
they let sleeping dogs lie. The last word is that the Chinese debt is
not looking too good and if Ochieng had
his way he would ban all betting shops
and create a national lottery owned by
the government so that all the billions
collected daily from the addicted
Kenyans would built the SGR to DRC.
Our parliament and senate seem to be
on permanent recess or is it another
effect of the handshake that the country
is quiet because the political drama that
normally used to be played out was simply
political slay kings and queens posturing
and hurling fake insults for media That is the state of our beloved nation
as narrated to Ochieng’s cousin, any
omissions and biases are a result of the
myopic vision of Ochieng and anyway
he is aware that vision 2030 was alive
when President Kibaki was wearing the
glasses.
It is futile to launch an onslaught against the
corrupt if the police is part of the problem.
The Kenya police have been consistent in
only one area and that is in topping the
chart year on year as the most corrupt consumption.
government department both in fact and
Even the madcaps that were governors
perception.
have toned down their rhetoric and one
The normal policeman sets out to work visiting Kenya would be excused if they
every morning with a financial target not a assumed there were only two counties of
security one. They open their various teller Nairobi and Mombasa whose governors
offices to collect the daily takings and on are the only ones we tend to hear about,
the highway to man non-tariff barriers not necessarily for good reasons.
that help to institutionalize graft and add
Or did the arrest and arraignment
to the cost of doing business in Kenya.
in court of Governor Okoth Obado
A simple and straightforward exercise of bust the mystique that governors were
just changing police uniform is mired in untouchable and above the law. The era
controversy as nobody believes that the of demi-gods called their excellences
only reason it is happening is to have a seems to have come and gone and the
modern looking uniform, we all wonder era of unsavory language aimed at the
who has the tender and the massive over- president is a forgotten one too.
pricing that is usual.
Things are too quiet, in fact the trending
Amazingly the normally abrasive and news are now about complicated love
arrogant Mpigs are uncharacteristically triangles and hexagons where a lady
quiet apart from their usual shenanigans always winds up dead the three somes or
of trying to sneak in benefits to themselves six somes as the case maybe end up in
at taxpayer’s expense when they think no police custody as a shut and closed case
until new evidence proves that love is a
one is paying attention.
complicated affair.
The saying goes that the wheels of justice
turn slowly but we would like to believe
they have actually not stopped. Cases of
great public interest seem to take forever
to be determined and in most cases are
dismissed for lack of evidence which means
somebody has been compromised.
We are facing the type of lull that
comes before a storm and we just hope
that as the storm comes, it is not an an-
nouncement that Kenya has become a
province of China and that the new ed-
ucation syllabus has made mandarin a
compulsory language.
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