Post by Onyango Oloo on Feb 5, 2018 20:26:48 GMT 3
An Essay from Toronto, Canada
The events in our country in the last have few days have gone beyond insanity by the Uhuru government.
After issuing countless threats to NASA leaders to avoid swearing in Raila Odinga as President to assert him and get him hanged the Swearing In came in January 30th 2018.
It is an event that will be etched in the collective consciousness for generations to come.
What this will lead to we do not know.The cynics are doing their best. They think that this was nonsense which will lead nowhere. Unfortunately for them some of us do not have the luxury of cynicism. We live in the here and now.
What has happened so far is that President Uhuru seems to have lost his mind.
I know saying something like that can get my house bombed. If Uhuru is going to order his cops to bob the houses of everyone who can't stand Uhuru like Miguna Miguna, very soon Uhuru will run out of bombs.
We are many as was seen in Uhuru Park on January 30, 2018. The government might have to designate all the tax they collect to stoking up on weapons to destroy the NASA supporters.
This is no easy task so good luck with that.
On January 30, 2018 the Uhuru government stormed the media houses and switched off of some of the bigges tnews providers in the country.
For the last few days, some of the biggest names in Kenyan media namely Larry Madowo, Linus Kaikai and Ken Mijungu have reportedly been hankering in the toilet at Nation House to avoid being arrested for doing their job. I wonder why.
It is astonishing that the media houses have not even gone to court to get their TV outlets from the clutches of the state. Activist Okiya Omtatah is the one with the guts to take the matter to court while the media houses seem to enjoy being shut off by Uhuru.It is really absurd.
Omtatah who got a court order to re-open the networks was stopped from delivering the court order by the new gestapo in town and of course Uhuru's government is very comfortable showing complete contempt for the court orders-are they going to start arresting judges who issue those court orders?
Watching the pictures of the destruction of Miguna's house it looks true that the police commandos bombed their way into the house and were just tearing the house apart. This is an act of terrorism.There is no way to define even to those in a bid to the need for justice in society.
Now the police boss is saying Miguna Miguna called himself General of an outlawed organization (NRM) and that thy had to arrest him. That is complete rubbish. What Miguna said or did not say is irrelevant.What matters is what the cops found in Miguna's house.
Did they find army tanks and weapons Miguna was putting up against the state? No, they did not. That is what counts in a court of law if we will still have them after Uhuru is finished.
As we speak, the Kenya government owes Kenyans who survived the Moi abuses something like KShs. 1 billion. They are struggling to pay it. I am personally one of those victims waiting to be paid after winning my case in 2014.
Now with the new wave of gross violations of human rights,the Kenyan tax payer will be in for another KShs. 1 billion to the victims. The state abuses and the people pay.
But that is nothing compared to the people who are being killed outright.Today we have a report of a 14 year old shot by police In Kibera and that is on top of the hundreds killed since August 2017.
My real fear is that with the recklessness going on and politicians' security being compromise right, left and centre, one of them is going to get killed and what may follow is unthinkable. We are playing with fire near a tank full of gasoline.
I saw an editorial in the Daily Nation entitled Stop act of humiliation of opposition leaders.The editorial is about opposition leaders state provided security and personal licensed guns being taken away by the state. This is not a simple act of humiliation. This is an abuse of the rights of Kenyans who are by law provided with security. Lets call a spade a spade for once.
If any of these politicians whose security is being compromised get shot even by thugs we can easily set the country aflame.Let stop playing with the lives of Kenyans even if some are perceived to be from enemy tribes. Kenyans all pay taxes.
Let me leave with the following awakening words from Pastor Martin Niemoller:
First they came for the Communists
But I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the Trade Unionists
But I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
But I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one to speak for me
But I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the Trade Unionists
But I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
But I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one to speak for me
That in a nutshell is where Kenya is right now:So speak out where you are even in the media.
Adongo Ogony is a Kenyan human rights currently domiciled in Canada.