Saturday, June 19, 2010

Seven of the Best for Machage and Company

First, congratulations are in order for President Kibaki for temporarily stripping Dr Wilfred Machage of his government job. Doing this clearly indicated His Excellency’s intolerance towards employees who do not know how to take care of their god-given tongues.
Though Kibaki did not have the guts to give him seven of the best, he nonetheless gave him enough to make the only Kuria Member of Parliament wriggle in excruciating pain.
After getting the news of his dismissal-I guess it was done Moi style because people like Machage do not deserve better treatment- the undoubtedly infuriated Mp addressed a press conference at the parliament buildings-he should have done it at the Red Card Centre- where he cried foul for his dismissal.
His facial expressions said of all disappointment in the heart of the down in the dumps man who few days ago thought he had all the freedom to piece land to all tribes in Kenya.
It seems when he was busy parcelling land, alongside his friends including new found surveyor and fellow Mp, Fred Kapondi, and others in the No camp, he thought he knew more; kumbe he was charting his own demise from the cabinet office! The president, with powers given him by the constitution, send Mr Machage packing.
Rather than throw tantrums the former assistant minister, once a minister for East Africa Cooperation, should be happy now he can go plan with his people how "to extend Kuria’s boundary to Awendo". This would surely keep him busier as he awaits his hate speech court case to be determined.
The heavily bearded man, who seems to know more about land matters than surgery, his profession, spoke of the president ‘succumbing’ to Luis Moreno-Ocampo charges at the Hague. How he knows that I do not know, maybe he should have shed more light. Anyway, his trial and sentence of the president seemed to have infuriated the head of state the more; and if Mr Machage is lucky to escape three years cooling his white head and beard at Kamiti Maximum Prison then he better begin learning to forget his plum cabinet work. He would not get it back.

YS: The claims (or were they excuses) by NO campaigners that National Cohesion and Integration Commission has been unfairly targeting them is totally unfounded. The law is clear, it says what means and means what it says, so if you break it then expect harsh treatment from it. Excuses by the likes of Kiema Kilonzo and company are more like those of a nursery school kid who when found erring and punished would lament saying he did it because someone else did it and therefore should not be punished.
YS2: If Machage and Kapondi think that names given to regions are an indication of the true owners of the lands, then does it mean Nairobi, meaning a place of cool waters in Maasai, belongs to Maasai and does that mean all other tribes are aliens in the capital city?

2 comments:

  1. Good piece Jere. Pple should indeed learn to tame their God-given tongues......not just be on a whirl land of words.
    The President did good.

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  2. Thanks Flo, true these politicians should be more careful with how they speak, hate speech has no ground in our country, not after the deadly post 2007 election violence

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