With the rather not so strange happenings over the last few months in the country, a stranger or simply a mad person will rule out part two of another explosive election-related violence in Kenya.
Kenya’s political atmosphere is nearing its charging summit. The charging rate seems to be going up each day. Some may say the naming of the now famous Ocampo Six is to blame for this but that could not be true because anyone keen would know there has been bad blood brewing since the formation of the Grand Coalition government back in 2008. There’s no doubt about that and if things are not put back to order and emotions controlled for the remaining period before the next general election, then Luis Moreno-Ocampo would be in a better position if he begins polishing his claws in readiness for another pounce.
What has been happening in the country is reminiscent of what went on prior to the 2007 elections and a kid born after that year should be the only one innocent of the barbarism demonstrated by some Kenyans towards each other then. There was incontrovertible hate speech, there was pure incitement, there was possible arming-either physically or psychologically, there was political hatred stoked by politicians, there was everything that made the atmosphere volatile and “warriors smell blood”. Who can deny that something alike is happening now?
When politicians openly ask Kenyans to go head-to-head in the name of fighting for a place somewhere (Uhuru Park), a public place, what will stop them from telling them to go for each other’s necks when anarchy prevails once again like it happened shortly after last elections. What will stop them? If they can call for a press conference and comfortably reveal their plans to take on one another in the city, what, for evil sake, will gag them from asking their vulnerable diehards to say such “No R* No Peace,” or “ordering to shoot to kill (civilians).”
Let’s get it right, good people. Whatever politicians do they do it for their egos. This is not a so hidden secret but unfortunately not so many Kenyans know it.
The Hague has come and some individuals (their names now a chorus in most local newspapers-the backgrounder for journalists) have been identified and it’s upon them to prove their god-given innocence. It’s solely their onus to do it on behalf of themselves not Kenyans who have knowingly been treated to diarrhoeic abracadabra meant to steal their attention from important stuff. In other similar fronts, some individuals could be covertly celebrating their narrow escape from Moreno-Ocampo list, that is if what some ODM members and its affiliates have been saying and how they have been behaving so far, is to go by. They do this without caring about the damn consequences and without bothering to clear their names either from the egregious crimes. Their rather not healthy rhetoric can only be understood as diversionary tactics aimed at painting another with white sin while hiding black sin. It can be equalled also to an effort by the real thief who points hard at an innocent soul and loudly shout thief! thief! thief! in a bid to divert wrath, as he/she runs away from the crowd.
With every bit of it of these happenings, emotions are being stoked and sobriety borne after the signing of the 2008 Peace Accord is slowly being revoked and fast getting replaced with hatred. It’s a worrying scenario and every Kenyan who’s in his/her right mind ought to be scared with these developments.
What took place in December 2007 and January 2008 should have been a painful but informative lesson to us but it seems it was just a small mistake, a temporary explosion meant to be easily forgotten just like a landmine in a bomb-prone country as Iraq or Afghanistan.
To put it straight, we did not learn anything, at all from the after 2007-deadly violence. We didn’t, period.
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