A
day to Wednesday, October 8th, the day when His Excellency President
Uhuru Kenyatta appears before the International Criminal Court (ICC), for the status conference of his case, all
tales have been told by our politicians and better put, the average sycophants
who dominate our politics.
Some
have lied to the ordinary Kenyans at public rallies that if the president
physically presents himself to The Hague based court; it will be akin to
trading our sovereignty! Others have opined that it is not Uhuru Kenyatta on
trial, but the entire country! We have seen learned politicians at political
barazas, trash away the charges at the ICC, urging Chief Prosecutor, Fatou
Bensouda to wind them up and admit a failed case. But as common sense dictates,
away from the classes of law, are political rallies the avenue to let loose
mouth about matters that have a due process to follow as laid in law?
But
as it has been the norm in Kenyan politics, from the times of founding father,
the Late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, through to retired president Moi and Mwai Kibaki,
sycophants are a breed that has always been in abundance in our politics! They
become loose cannons who loosely let out their tongues in public and political
barazas without putting much reason to it. Not once, but countless times, that
our politicians get lost in steamy political affairs and carelessly speak, and
this week’s anticipated trip to The Hague by Uhuru Kenyatta has once again
brought up this ugly face of our politicians!
Over
100 legislators are on the trip to The Netherlands. Nairobi Senator Mike
‘Sonko’ Mbuvi has already pledged to pay the expenses of 16 ‘patriotic’ Kenyans
to The Hague, all to show support to the president! Yet, as our legislators,
prepare to pretentiously go to The Hague and cry more than the bereaved, some
were in the last Parliament, that sold Uhuru, Ruto and Sang to the ICC, when
they blatantly refused to engineer a local process to try these cases, and as a
result ICC came in, through former prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo. Now they are
wailing on rooftops, lamenting how the entire nation is on trial, yet years back,
Let us not be vague, let us go to Hague’, was a national chorus!
Those
who have chosen this conceited show of support to the president by accompanying
him to The Hague, will not be allowed anywhere near the court’s premises, No.
As His Excellency, Uhuru Kenyatta takes to the stand on Wednesday for the
status conference of his case, these legislators will probably be spotting caps
with the Kenyan colors, miniature flags, kneeling down and wailing in prayers
and loitering in the streets of some European country! Indeed, these acts will
be harmful to the Kenyan face internationally, than it were by our president’s
humble respect for the court that he has shown by choosing to heed the
summonses, even as the African Union (AU)
and our sycophantic politicians chest-thumped that he should not go.
Contrary
to the minds of our sycophants in our political class, and the AU, President
Uhuru Kenyatta chose to reason this matter and obliged to present himself to
The Hague, just as his Deputy, William Ruto, has. This is respect to the
institution of presidency and the president is indeed pulling in the right
direction on this one. Just as the public mind has opined, maybe the cases have
fizzled out, and Uhuru’s humble gesture to the international court is respect to
the rule of law, both nationally and internationally.
Do
we even know if these funds to foot the legislator’s expenses to The Hague are
from the public coffers or from their pockets, as some have claimed? The money
being wasted on this trip by our legislators could have been used to feed
starving Kenyans in some part of the country and pay university fees for some
deserving kid somewhere, among other ways of improving the lives of the
long-suffering Kenyan.
The
only blot to Uhuru’s humble acceptance to oblige to The ICC is this trip
by our legislators to ‘show solidarity’.
They
have simply chosen to cry more than the bereaved, on the funeral day!
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