Kenya National Commission on Human Rights is now Kenya International Collusion of Backbiters, Rumourmongers, Busybodies and cousins, according to Ruto (William) 101.
The former powerful minister in the government which hired the ‘horde of colluders’, redefined the Commission, formerly assigned the noble duty of checking rights of human beings only, “to truly reflect who the commissioners steering it are”. This was in line with the latest mission of the Higher Education ministry, he drove few weeks ago before he received the boot, to give new impetus to such toothless organisations.
However before Ruto’s dust settled there was a call to ‘put records straight’. In a quick rejoinder the Chair of the faint, and often vague Commission, confirmed the new position it was officially acquiring though past in-fights within it had, albeit translucently, proposed so.
At a press conference billed one of its own but finally milled by top employees of the commission bearing name tags with the above mentioned nouns, Florence Jaoko thanked Ruto for revealing so and asked him to continue doing the good job. That’s what Ms Jaoko, the female warrior who recently weathered a huge storm seeking to tsunami her out of office, was telling Kenyans when she resorted to take Ruto’s claims head on. She just confirmed what Ruto was unearthing about the organ of government in relation to their inability to make themselves believable.
When a politician throws a spear at you, the second thing to do after you have dived away to escape the poisonous weapon is to check, evaluate, prepare and then respond. You don’t throw back the spear without taking time to examine the venom it carries. The woman, Jaoko, did not apply these basic rules, not for this scenario. Instead she led a battalion of head-shakers, nod-in-agreement-masters to ‘fight’ Ruto few hours, (or were they countable minutes), after the latter breathed out balls of fires burning at thousands of Celsius targeted at them.
Ruto jolted by a heroic reception had, when he arrived from The Hague, downloaded in quick succession venomous revelations vilifying KNCHR and one of its outspoken commissioners. He stated that there was not a vestige of truth in a report prepared by the commission of colluders about him and others suspected to be behind the 2007 post-election chasing, hacking, burning, and blood draining ignobility. He was not playing poker but making something relevant, though many saw it as ultimate efforts by a panicky villain trying to clutch the only remaining upright grass to rescue him, or better still crumble with him, as he freely skates down to eulogy.
Jaoko and her brothers responded like the ancient foolish woman, who after her colleagues leaves her in the jungle she loudly shouts for help without first thinking of who, apart from them, could hear her cries. Guess who arrives first. The Ogre; the man-enemy of the jungle. He takes her as his life-long wife. That’s what Jaoko has done too. Instead of first surveying the forest infested by the Kenyan politicians created idiosyncratically but act unanimously, she loudly fights back, a move that will (it has already) endear her and the commission to more enemies. Now two provinces, Rift Valley and Central, are baying for her blood.
The two ogres are defending their territories and ‘kings’ with gusto likely to scare Jaoko and lieutenants to death.
The bespectacled lady , many would consider soft-spoken and shy, but as her former Vice, Hassan Omar Hassan would attest she hides her real stubborn and Nyeri-woman attitude behind her spectacles , said there was not a speck of sense in Ruto’s assertions. She did not mince her words in saying only Jacob ‘Ghost’ Mulee, the Harambee Stars coach, possessed good coaching skills and that Ghost was never employed by them.
In this spirited episode of Kenyans Going to the Hague Movie, scenes are changing every now and then. Who will win this latest contest? Is it the rotund, fearless King of Rift Valley or the toothless, less barking, and shadowy commission? Luis Moreno-Ocampo certainly should find it difficult to declare the winner here.
Just by the way...
*If Omar Hassan is not guilty why doesn’t he take legal action against William Ruto. The latter’s claims are defamatory enough to guarantee him a strong case and financial compensation more than the current cost of a 5,000-acre plot of land in Nairobi. Unless he knows something not in public domain, he should not continue engaging in media fights with the former minister.
*And who the heck are these coached witnesses? By the way, I have damaging information about my close buddy and colleague Aggrey Mutambo concerning his one or two secrets. Omar Hassan, how much I’m I entitled monthly and where will I stay to keep my mind sober, cool-headed and ready to destroy him when you need me and my dossier?
*Thanks again for finding time to read this blog.
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