William Ruto Redefines Human Rights Commission

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.  

President Barrack Obama Walking On a Tight Rope

And only God knows if he will be able to safely wade to the other side. Many predict he will sink into the deep valley before he makes the tenth stride-on this you can hear some republicans engage in guarded celebrations. Indeed others have already started preparing a casket for the president and other now ‘hated’ democrats.

Obama came into office riding on an exaggerated but promising message that he as the worldly ‘Messiah’ that Americans had been waiting for long would deliver them from all the evils bedeviling them. It has not happened. And most Americans have bitterly realised that their talisman was human after all.

One problem with a mortal being trying to emulate Jesus Christ is the inability to deliver. However eloquent, good-looking, hopeful, and suave a man is, he won’t be able to rid fellow beings of uncountable sins and, often unachievable desires. The best he can do is serve those under him with well spiced disillusionment and cap it with dissatisfaction as a dessert, and cynicism as a drink.  After the three-piece meal, he takes them for a walk on the sides of a deep dark valley that’s home to all sorts of despair and hatred.

That’s what has happened to His Excellency, just giving him a taste of it otherwise it’s sinful in this country to worship presidents, Barrack Obama. He is in a very difficult situation. None, not even his Nobel Prize sympathizers, can help. In less than two years, his YES WE CAN slogan which was laced with hope, excitement and unparallel dreams has camouflaged into a resounding NO WE DON’T WANT YOU chorus coated with hatred, disgust and extreme disbelief on the black man’s policies.

Obama has tried. He has delivered some frameworks Americans will remember him for. The Health Care law, he assented to with joyous aura few months after he took office among others, though have been progressive, have endeared him to antagonists who see him as being a socialist targeting the slave-minded elites and letting go the over-exploited poor.

The Republicans, their dislike for Obama could be felt in their sweaty noses, and hoarse voices, just like ‘You Lie’ outburst by Congressman Joe Wilson last September murmuring loudly all over, are capitalising on every ‘slip’ and unfulfilled promises by Obama and his democrats lieutenants.

These members, from the Grand Old Party (GOP), best described since Obama took office early 2009 as busybodies out to malign every other move initiated by the man almost qualified as the long-awaited Anti-Christ by some Christians, have been after the very neck of the head of state. They have succeeded to a greater extent and Obama is facing a litany of inadequacies pointed out by the very vibrant Tea Party movement steered by Sarah Palin.

Democrats, on the other hand, have not had the guts to speak out. The strong cornerstones of the ordinarily assumed blue party have not been any helpful. From the powerful State Secretary Hillary Clinton, Senator John Kerry, and others who would have had an easily believable say in the US, have relegated themselves to the very silent of the caves and let Obama fight it out alone. They have been annoyingly aloof, an indication that they may  have been afraid of losing ground if they came out fully in support of Obama.

The mid-term elections are a huge challenge to the Obama administration. And as things appear he could be headed out of office in two years before he could fully enjoy the sweetness of the White House, master the Capitol Hill or even cram the secret code to the nuclear armoury.

It’s now almost coming to an abrupt sunset for President Obama.

Just by the way…

*Are President Obama’s woes related to his skin colour? And if so can now the tag World’s ‘Super Power’ tag after the United States be chopped off and fixed on China? I guess it’s only fair because communism is way better than racism. Letting the Americans, who have failed to tame their racist egos, pride further in this tag is gross and repugnant. It’s better if China had it. Don’t you think so?