The Waki Commission did its work. The Kibaki administration is still lagging and cuddling about with justice. This, for heaven sake, is a sad incident. The expectations of many a Kenyans is that as the year culminates to the end, the justice for the millions of people displaced from their homes and thousands of souls sent packing to the next world would be meted. It has not happened. I fear the true justice may never be. In politics, dog-eat-dog business means the big fish thriving on the small fish. The argument here is the real players of the Post-Election chaos will walk Scot-free while their hand-men wallow in jails. Anything extra- ordinary? I don't think so.
This is the reason to worry. Most of those who caused deaths of innocent Kenyans are in the power. They are the ones to form a tribunal, they are the ones to appoint judges of the tribunal and they are the ones to mete out justice. This is all fishy! Who judges himself or herself? Who would sentence himself or herself to jail and suffering? Sanity has lost its cause. I want to believe that of all human rights, the most essential is right to justice. If you are denied this right, you are walking dead.
I know that down another four years to come, we will have been taken for a ride. Nothing will happen to the perpetrators of tribal killings. Nothing will happen to the monsters who snatched souls of innocent people whose crime was belonging to a certain tribe. Yet, i know that a seed has been sowed. A seed of discontent, mistrust and injustice. This has been traded with freedom of movement, right to own property, right to life and all human rights there in. The lesson is, Kenya will never be the same again. In fact, it is never the same. We may walk together, our leaders may be there, pretending all the way to be united in search for lasting peace, but i know something; more animosity is on the offing.
Some leaders have made their tribesmen believe they have monopoly of violence, that they can unleash violence at any time they feel discontent. Others have implanted the belief that they have a universal right to leadership. That is why they are the architects of who is who in the country leadership, and that is why when one of their own losses in an election, the election must have been rigged. Just others have sold the idea that they own this and that place................they have won all the rights to land ownership. And others have peddled the lie that their tribe holds the country as one since they are the best brains in business and what have you. In the end, animosity continues.
I think the question here is, shouldn't we go the Hague way? There, nobody cares about your tribe and the perception you have sowed in the folks. No one will care about your political connections. No one will care about the much you mean to the nation. There, injustice will meet justice, and that is all we want. Because in January 2008, justice met injustice. Shouldn't it be payback time.
I know that down another four years to come, we will have been taken for a ride. Nothing will happen to the perpetrators of tribal killings. Nothing will happen to the monsters who snatched souls of innocent people whose crime was belonging to a certain tribe. Yet, i know that a seed has been sowed. A seed of discontent, mistrust and injustice. This has been traded with freedom of movement, right to own property, right to life and all human rights there in. The lesson is, Kenya will never be the same again. In fact, it is never the same. We may walk together, our leaders may be there, pretending all the way to be united in search for lasting peace, but i know something; more animosity is on the offing.
Some leaders have made their tribesmen believe they have monopoly of violence, that they can unleash violence at any time they feel discontent. Others have implanted the belief that they have a universal right to leadership. That is why they are the architects of who is who in the country leadership, and that is why when one of their own losses in an election, the election must have been rigged. Just others have sold the idea that they own this and that place................they have won all the rights to land ownership. And others have peddled the lie that their tribe holds the country as one since they are the best brains in business and what have you. In the end, animosity continues. 
I think the question here is, shouldn't we go the Hague way? There, nobody cares about your tribe and the perception you have sowed in the folks. No one will care about your political connections. No one will care about the much you mean to the nation. There, injustice will meet justice, and that is all we want. Because in January 2008, justice met injustice. Shouldn't it be payback time.
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