Post by OtishOtish on Jun 19, 2012 4:29:44 GMT 3
An old saying: If you must sup with the devil, make sure you have a long spoon.
As a kid I used to love stories about pirates; Blackbeard (Edward Teach) was among my favourites, for his colourful buccaneering style. Of course, I did not then know the real truth of what these men did.
Lately, I have been thinking of another "great" pirate---Admiral Sir Henry Morgan. Murder, pillaging, burning, rape, mayhem and destruction.... blood, blood, blood are the means by which he made his name. Returned to England to be tried and hanged, he somehow managed to con the law, and not only escaped the gallows but was knighted and returned to the Carribean as Lt.-Governor of Jamaica. He then put on the "regular citizen" hat and set to peacefully enjoy the enormous wealth he had acquired through blood.
I have been thinking of Henry Morgan because in Kenya today we have a monster who is similarly set on a path of "transformation": Maina Njenga---the worst type of brigand that the modern age at its worst could have thrown up. And now, having made his wealth through the worst ways possible, he is now Saul turned into Paul. Complete with a church. And people are buying.
Njenga is clearly making the "power" people in Central quite unhappy, especially in his refusal to follow the "Uhuru is King" line. That, naturally, brings some joy to those who loathe Uhuru or who support his competition, and I am among them. But in some quarters things have simply gone too far, and all over the place are to be found people who want to forget Njenga's past--an ugly past that he has never been been called to account for.
There are at least two things that should be kept in mind:
First, even before the PEV Njenga had done things in Kenya, to Kenyans, that not even the most jaded writer of crime-novels or horror-novels could have imagined. In any country with a functional judiciary, Njenga would long have been strung up, or given a dose of 10,000 volts of electricity, or injected with a pint of potassium chloride, or given 999 years in some dingy cell.
Second, Mungiki is the sole "organization" in Case 2 at the ICC. All those terrible things that were done in the "retaliation" phase of the PEV were done by Mungiki under Njenga's leadership. Evidence before the ICC show Uhuru's millions being delivered to Njenga (in prison!) and Njenga giving the "all-clear" for his followers to carry out atrocities. And we can expect more to be revealed during the trial. Njenga should be right up there in the dock, standing between Uhuru and Muthaura.
Given the above, one is astonished at how many friends Njenga has been making lately, especially in his foray into politics. What all upright people should be doing is denouncing him in the strongest possible terms and demanding that he be put on trial, on a charge-sheet that's likely to be several metres long.
As a kid I used to love stories about pirates; Blackbeard (Edward Teach) was among my favourites, for his colourful buccaneering style. Of course, I did not then know the real truth of what these men did.
Lately, I have been thinking of another "great" pirate---Admiral Sir Henry Morgan. Murder, pillaging, burning, rape, mayhem and destruction.... blood, blood, blood are the means by which he made his name. Returned to England to be tried and hanged, he somehow managed to con the law, and not only escaped the gallows but was knighted and returned to the Carribean as Lt.-Governor of Jamaica. He then put on the "regular citizen" hat and set to peacefully enjoy the enormous wealth he had acquired through blood.
I have been thinking of Henry Morgan because in Kenya today we have a monster who is similarly set on a path of "transformation": Maina Njenga---the worst type of brigand that the modern age at its worst could have thrown up. And now, having made his wealth through the worst ways possible, he is now Saul turned into Paul. Complete with a church. And people are buying.
Njenga is clearly making the "power" people in Central quite unhappy, especially in his refusal to follow the "Uhuru is King" line. That, naturally, brings some joy to those who loathe Uhuru or who support his competition, and I am among them. But in some quarters things have simply gone too far, and all over the place are to be found people who want to forget Njenga's past--an ugly past that he has never been been called to account for.
There are at least two things that should be kept in mind:
First, even before the PEV Njenga had done things in Kenya, to Kenyans, that not even the most jaded writer of crime-novels or horror-novels could have imagined. In any country with a functional judiciary, Njenga would long have been strung up, or given a dose of 10,000 volts of electricity, or injected with a pint of potassium chloride, or given 999 years in some dingy cell.
Second, Mungiki is the sole "organization" in Case 2 at the ICC. All those terrible things that were done in the "retaliation" phase of the PEV were done by Mungiki under Njenga's leadership. Evidence before the ICC show Uhuru's millions being delivered to Njenga (in prison!) and Njenga giving the "all-clear" for his followers to carry out atrocities. And we can expect more to be revealed during the trial. Njenga should be right up there in the dock, standing between Uhuru and Muthaura.
Given the above, one is astonished at how many friends Njenga has been making lately, especially in his foray into politics. What all upright people should be doing is denouncing him in the strongest possible terms and demanding that he be put on trial, on a charge-sheet that's likely to be several metres long.
