Open Your Mouth Wide This Christmas

But not as wide as Mutula Kilonzo’s yesterday in the august house. Guys, didn’t he, the minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, push the sidelines of his mouth to breaking point.

Such behaviours are admissible-borrowed word from the august house- only football goalkeepers or skippers when shouting sense into the heads of reluctant defenders or waning players respectively. But for an honourable member to open his mouth to an extent the epiglottis might have begged for cover in the course of the action, while explaining a meagre point, says of many concerns including emotions passed boiling point. If it was in front of Lord or Lady Justice then Mutula would have received a kick out of the courts for serious contempt.

Anyway, when enjoying yourself over this season, let Mutula’s ‘mouthing’ episode pass you if you don’t want your doctor to be urgently recalled from his holiday in Barbados. You know, he might not buy the idea to break his sunshine absorption in the island’s beaches to come and attend to bloated or constipating stomachs. And the consequences will be graver than exciting; bloated large intestines and foul air-an ominous combination for a Christmas season. Ancestors might come calling too. So take care and eat averagely.

Another thing which has been repeated in the past and now passed the umpteenth count but which needs to be said over, and over, and over again because people are entrapped in it no matter the shouting, even it’s akin to Mutula’s, about it. Money it is. Take care of your hard-earned money this coming holiday. January is just less than two weeks away and money will be required to oil the wheels of your new year’s life. If you are thinking of drying your account(s) in anticipation of an Equity loan, then Mistaken should be your middle name. Everyone is thinking of the same and even if the bank has some money to offer, it won’t be enough for the millions Toms, Dicks and Harry’s going for it. Local shylocks will be begging too and your begging will be of minimal value then.

Away from the hurly burly surrounding the nitty-gritty of the season and please ensure you enjoy this Christmas but of course with guarded expenditure if you don’t want to sing Life’s Sickening come next year when the shillings’ drought will be happening.

In line with this, Info’ e-njection would like to wish all its readers a dignified, mollified, purified and crystallised Christmas just as Christ was crystal holy. A happy New Year ,Twenty-Eleven, worth many promises and successes.

  

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*Thanks for taking your time off a busy schedule to read this blog. Brace yourself for more interesting stuff in 2011.

Seven Questions for His Feared Moreno-Ocampo

After the International Criminal Court prosecutor released the names of Kenyans suspected to have played a part in the dreadful 2007/08 post election violence, the country receded to a terrifying silence characterised by low toned talks and euphoric media.

Amidst the unusual atmosphere, these questions made an abrupt stopover:

ü  1.When someone wakes up one day and brand another most responsible for what happened yesterday, then such questions as these arise: Most responsible according to who? And why should they be categorised as such? You know, Responsibility is ever relative. Therefore, The Hague Six, who have already been tagged key suspects, invite such doubts as who labelled them as such-an angel from Heaven? Or another man immersed in inadequacies and with natural prejudices? Emblazoning the individuals as ‘most’, ‘key’, ‘principal’ is prejudicial and would do much to incriminate the suspects before a ‘fair’ process takes its course.

ü  2. Six individuals telling Kenyans to fight? Give us a break, please. We are over 38 million, the last time I checked. So how can a mere six incite Kenyans, who are, mark you, very intelligent- talk of brilliant inventor Evans Wadongo, one of the ten heroes identified by CNN, late Barrack Obama Senior who bore President Obama, top model Ajuma, lightning runners- these are uncountable- Rudisha, Jelimo, Wanjiru and others, prolific billionaire bankers as Equity's James Mwangi, top writers in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, superb lawyers in DPP’s Keriako Tobiko, among million bright Kenyans. So the named six warped the minds of all these well-educated people to fight or condone fighting?

ü  3.Moreno-Ocampo’s listed demands for suspects makes one wonder why such people are being treated like animals which don’t deserve any rights. I’ll just mention two which I strongly belief are draconian and go against the beliefs entrenched in the code of natural justice. One is this -Updating the ICC on their latest personal contacts and whereabouts and second is -restrictions not to make contact with other suspects in preparation of their defences. Tell me if these orders don’t belong to the Stone Age. What happened to the freedom of association and movement to the extent that some individuals tell others to tell them where they go every day? So if Brigadier Ali visits his grandmother for a cup of mursik, should he tell some prosecutor in The Hague? What of the right to privacy? Should they not be allowed the tiniest part of their privacy?

ü  4.By picking out few individuals to face the wrath on behalf of an evidential shambolic electoral system, the prosecutor offers a blind eye on the root cause of what really happened. The general feeling is that were it not for an adulterated election body Kenyans would not have faced any violence. Why has Moreno-Ocampo chosen to ignore this fact? Doing this not only negate efficiency of the ICC in solving the root-causes of global strife but also beef beliefs of hidden agenda behind his indictments.

ü  5.There’s a lot of ambiguity in Moreno-Ocampo’s charges. First he says he’s not after a group or mass of people but individuals. Right and that’s how criminal, and indeed all cases, are dealt with but why then charge someone of a case he has not, at least, directly  committed. For instance, the named Six will face “charges of murder, rape, deportation and others” which were certainly committed by others. Or will you want to say the Six were all over Kenya wielding their machetes and using them to taste the oesophagus of the recorded 1,300? And will you still say they ripped off the clothes of all the raped women. Surely, other people did this and someone else is facing the law on behalf of them. Why? And yet he had promised not to generalise his accusations.

ü  6..And the ever unresolved concern that the ICC is only interested in third world countries, especially in Africa. Who will ever settle these doubts? And why has Moreno-Ocampo not shown any interest in putting to rest these reservations by indicting someone from the G8 or better still G20?

ü  7.Who will be responsible if in any case violence erupts as a result of the naming of the suspects? Moreno-Ocampo, Philip Waki, or Koffi Annan?

 When these questions and many others get satisfactory responses then I would let my doubts aside, otherwise they will remain etched in my doubts gallery.

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I have no problem with criminals facing the full force of the law. But have a problem when such alleged criminals are inhumanely treated even before they are found guilty, or put through a process which has acted unfairly in the past.