THE AFRICAN UNION.

Politicians will always be politicians; all there need to be is something common for them to fight for. Kenya legislators were all brought together by their greed for their quest for higher pay and no matter their political party or ideology they all work together to make their quest come true and the house speaker Justine Muturi went on to justify this by saying they are “correcting an illegality” made by the Salary and Remunerations Commission (SRC) and Prof.Kindikia Kithure defended it by saying “we are following the law by use of constitutional pathway”. These politicians were justifying their greedy acts in the name of the law!

Think about the African Union 50^th Anniversary held Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and you will definitely observe similar characteristics of political head of states from almost all states in Africa. During the AU meeting, the political Head of state all united to fight against justice for their fellow head of state namely Uhuru Kenyatta and earlier on Omar Bashir and they justified their support by saying: “Kenya has a reformed Judiciary and it should be given the first priority to try the cases” this were the words of the AU commission chairperson Ms. Nkosaza Dlamini-Zuma and she added that “the ICC was established to be the court of last resort and not the first resort”. A declaration also written by AU also read that “Kenya be allowed a National mechanism to investigate and prosecute the case under a reformed Judiciary” .I do agree that Kenya has a reformed judiciary but who will carry out this investigations? Think about investigations of Baragoi valley or Ouko or J.M Kariuki have the people involved ever brought to justice?

Well, as an African I have all reasons maybe to celebrate of such a decision passed by the heads of states in the AU meeting since it shows finally African leaders have stopped being puppets of the western imperialist, but first before we pop the champagne and begin the party did you ask yourself the one million dollar question. Which is: did they support the bid to drop the ICC cases because they believe that those African people who were murdered, mutilated and sexually harassed will get justice in African courts or did they support it because it was their fellow political head of state who was being accused? Me I think the latter is the reason why they supported the bid.

If you read articles from mass media coming from the AU meetings you will realize that the discussion was mainly based on Mr.Uhuru Kenyatta who is their fellow political head of state. But do you know that more than twenty(20) Africans are facing charges in the ICC people like Joseph Kony of Uganda, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo of DRC,Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d'Ivoire and many more others yet African Union only concentrated on Uhuru Kenyatta case only. Why did they not include the other African ICC cases in their bid to ask United Nations to drop the charges if they think African Courts are capable of handling the cases? Well I can say it is because Uhuru Kenyatta is their fellow political head of state.

I do agree that the ICC is a tool by the imperialist only punishing leaders from small and weak nations but it ignores crimes committed by rich and more powerful nations and that’s why maybe Uhuru Kenyatta is being accused of being responsible for the more than 1000 death that occurred during the post election violence yet the “super power” leaders are not being accused of the death of the tens of thousands of people they are killing in Iraq, Bangladesh and the list goes on. And that’s why I strongly agreed with the South Sudan leader Salva Kiir when he said the ICC court is made to “humiliate African leaders”. But my big worry is that the AU is handling this case from a political point of view without caring if justice will be achieved.

Though the AU resolution will have no effect on the ICC case it brings to our attention that maybe still African head of state are not after justice but rather to strengthen their political relations.

My opinion is if the AU does not support the Cases of the ICC it should not be selective on specific cases but it should insist all cases concerning Africans in the ICC be dropped but before they do that they should form an “African Court of Justice” which should have judges with integrity to ensure justice is served. This will prevent politicians from saving their own politicians from the jaws of justice. But I do appreciate the resolution passed by the AU to have its own Army this if implemented will be a giant step toward African independence. But I still insist AU should know the DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POLITICS AND JUSTICE!!!

THE CONDOM AND THE CHURCH

The condemnation of the condom by the church reminds me of past errors of the church such as the claim that the earth goes round the sun which the church vehemently condemned. It all begun in 1512 when Nicolas Copernicus came up with the heliocentric model that stated that the sun was at the centre of the solar system and that the earth went round it. The church vehemently suppressed the theory and went on to forbade him from publishing his book “De Revolutionbus” which had articles to support his theory. The church thus forced the people to believe that it was the sun that went round the earth

In 1600 Giordano Bruno was burnt to death after the church found him guilty of heresy and that he claimed that the sun was at the centre of the solar system. In honour of his death and his fight for the truth a statute was erected in 1890 the same spot he was burnt, the statue was mainly erected as an emblement for freedom of thought.

In 1616 Galileo Galilei took up the heliocentric theory and held his ground that the earth goes round the sun, he was tried for blasphemy by the church, since he was stating contrary to the scripture such as Psalms 93:1, 96:10 which have text stating that “the earth is firmly established” and the church interpreted it to mean that the earth never moves but it’s the sun that moves round the earth. Galileo was found guilty of blasphemy and was sentence to life in house arrest.

In 1687 Sir Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope and it became clear that the sun was the centre of the solar system and that the earth went round the sun and not the sun going round the earth.

In 1822 the church finally permitted the publication of work dealing with the theory that the earth goes round the sun

In 1992 Pope John Paul II officially agreed with the theory that the earth goes round sun.

From the above it took approximately 500 years for the church to accept the truth the earth goes round the sun and this was after many years of misleading people that it’s the sun that goes round the earth. This was after many philosophers and great thinkers were killed and imprisoned on claiming the truth yet the church did not hear, all in the name that it was contrary to the scripture. What also need to be noted from the above is that the church is not ALWAYS right. And that the church is so conservative and it may not be able to compete with the present reality of the time and technology.

What most people should know is that the bible was written on cultural context and misinterpretation of the Bible has led to suffering of many people throughout history. Slavery and discrimination of the female gender was all caused by misinterpretation of the scripture and that why unlike the Holy Koran which is also recognized as a source of law in many countries the Bible is not since it can easily be misinterpreted.

It is said that history repeat itself. And maybe that can be very true and it may take 500 years for the condom to be accepted by the church as a way of preventing HIV/AIDS, Sexual Transmitted Infections (STIs) and also be used for family planning.

In a research carried out in Kenya by  Kenya HIV Prevention Response and Mode of Transmission Analysis, it showed that there are approximately 100,000 new infections of HIV/AIDS annually and 44% of this are from stable relationships such as marriage this is much greater compared to new infections from sex workers and clients which is at 14.1%. This may send an awkward message that it’s safer to have a sex relation with a sex worker than your partner in your relationship. But do not get me wrong, am not saying that people to have sex relations with sex workers but rather am showing the importance of condom in sexual relation since the low percentage in sex workers in new infection maybe the fact that they use a condoms.

My opinion is that condom can be used to control the spread of HIV/AIDS and also stop unplanned pregnancies. Unplanned pregnancies mainly lead to abortions especially among the youth which may lead to the death of the woman since the abortions are conducted using dangerous means since it is illegal in Kenya and done by untrained people. Unplanned pregnancies may also lead to a big family which the parents may not be able to provide for leading to poverty, malnutrition and also increase in crime in the society. The church should also be at the frontline to teach the congregation the importance of faithfulness in marriage and the church leaders should practise what they preach and the cases where church leaders are involved in sexual offences should cease to exist, since if the church leaders themselves cannot control their own sexual behaviour how do they expect the people to behave? But most important and especially to the youth they should know that abstinence is the 100% sure way to stop abortions and HIV/AIDS since the bloody truth is that AIDS IS REAL!!

THE CHINA MAN,

"All that glitters is not gold" Chinese companies have flooded Kenya and have undertaken alot of projects most of them through loans-debts- like expansions of the Kisumu airport, rehabilitation of the Moi International Sports Centre, expansion of Thika-Nairobi highway, the Sondu Miriu power plant and oil exploration in northern Kenya,r mining coal in Mui and vry soon they are also involved in installing CCTV cameras in Nairobi Metropolitan myb its bcz they are hardworking and are timely in finishing their job.......bt do u rember how colonization begun it begun with missionaries who brought the Gospel and b4 we realized it we were chased out of our lands and we lost our freedom...China is an upcoming superpower and to have power u need slaves, hope we shall not be among its slaves when it rises to power bcuz today we talk about modern colonization where u make a country ur debtor and u use that to controll it.its my hope Kenya will nt fall in the trap of modern colonization bt all in all china does a good job bt hope there is no hiden,malicious intentions...LONG LIVE KENYA!! bt keep in mind "When the deal seems so sweet think twice".

THE JUDICIARY BLACK SPOT

The judiciary is moving at a supersonic speed on the super highway of reforms, but has it got an accident at a black spot on its road to the Promised Land? After March 4^th election, the results were announced declaring  Uhuru Kenyatta as president, Raila Odinga filed a petition to The Supreme Court  seeking the court to declare the election invalid,  but The Supreme Court ruled in favour of Uhuru Kenyatta. Not everyone was pleased with the ruling since it was received with political reaction. If a person supported Uhuru, of course it was a ceremony for the birth of a new president; on the other hand, if a person supported Raila Odinga, it was a funeral to them since they had to bury their dream of being lead by the son of Jaramogi. The Supreme court was criticized on a number of things such as rejection the 800 page affidavit on court procedure bases, this affidavit contained evidence to support Raila’s case but when the court gave the judgment it stated that Raila had not given sufficient evidence to prove his case. The court was also criticized relied on legal authorities from countries such as Nigeria and Uganda whose democracy record is not upright. It was also stated that the judgment was read in a casual way, on the day of giving the final judgment, since the judges did not read the whole judgment as is normally done in courts. To put a hot nail on the wound, just recently the High Court recently terminated a 20 year old Goldenberg Case where the country lost billions of shillings “thanks” to Judge Joseph Mutava, who released the master-mind of the Goldenberg scandal, Kamlesh Pattni .Judge Joseph Mutava is being investigated by the Judicial Service Commission on his conduct and also his relation with Kamlish Pattni. The Director of Public Prosecution, Keriako Tobiko said they will appeal the case to the Court of Appeal but they are being frustrated by some issues such as; the judgment which cleared  Kamlesh Pattni went missing from the High Court registry and only resurfaced after 18 days and it is believed this is part of a scheme to defeat any avenue for appeal, since an appeal should be filed to the a higher court( The Court of Appeal), 14 days after the day of judgment, in this case the 14 day window of appeal has already lapsed but an appeal can still be possible if Prosecutor will give the judge reasonable reasons for the delay.

In most Courts of Justice, there is always a black spot called “political influence” and this ends up causing the death of justice to many people. For instance, in 1992 and 1997 general elections Kenneth Matiba &  Mwai Kibaki respectively, would not successfully file a presidential election petition against Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi because the court at the time acted as a puppet of the “big fish” of the society and justice was measured with the depth of a person’s pocket. I have a strong belief that Kenya has moved from those miserable years and am bloody sure the “Mutunga’s Courts” is a reformed court and was not influenced politically or bribed on giving its ruling and that is why the judiciary has not got an accident at the black-spot neither has it had a puncture to slow its speed or stop it towards a reformed judiciary. KEEP UP JUDICIARY!!

KILLING THE MESSENGER

The death of Senior Counsel Mutula Kilonzo hit many Kenyans with a jaw breaking blow. I will not jump the gun and state he was assassinated or murdered but throughout Kenya’s history, Kenya has a “good track record” of sending its heroes to the cemetery. Heroes who fought against inequality before the law, corruption and stood firmly for what is right and so far no “big fish” has been held accountable. It all begun after independence in 1965 when Pio Gama Pinto a socialist Politician was shot at close range on the driveway while waiting for the gate to be opened and it is said he was murdered for his socialist ideas, no sooner had Kenyans recovered from the loss of such a hero than Tom Mboya was shot on the 5^th of July 1969 at Moi Avenue, Nairobi while   visiting a pharmacy. Isaac Njoroge was arrested and hanged for the murder of Tom Mboya but during his arrest he asked: “Why don’t you go after the big man?” and Kenyans have never known who the "big man" was and up to now we are still in the dark. It is said Mboya was murdered to remove political competition for the presidency seat as he was seen as a political threat for the top seat. Mboya can be attributed as a King Maker since thanks to him USA has a president named Barak Obama, since it is due to Mboya’s Scholarship programmes which sponsored Barak Obama Senior to USA and during his education there he met and married Stanley Ann Dunham who then became parents of Barak Obama. In 1975 the “peoples millionaire” J.M Kariuki was bloodily killed it is said he was killed for his courageous fighting against corruption, unfair distribution of land after independence and his continuous complain against the widening gap between the e rich and poor. In 1991 Robert Ouko was murdered and his body found by a heard boy dumped in the bush, his murder was so controversial that Kenyans were forced to swallow a bitter lie that Ouko shot himself to the head then set himself on fire while dead!! It is said he was killed due to his plan to give a report on political corruption in the Government of Kenya at that time. Many Kenya heroes have suffered the same fate, heroes such as Alexandra Muge, Mugabe Were,Odhiambo Mbai just to name a few and just recently the death of George Saitoti is still raising eyebrows due to his political ambition as potential presidential candidate and his harsh fight against Drug Lords who have invaded Kenya.

Kenya may never know who the “big fish” are, who have existed since independence and have continuously killed our messengers who have brought the message of the fight against  corruption and standing for what is right, But am sure Kenyans have heard the sounds of the war drums of the fight against corruption and we  will fight till we win this battle and war, since they can kill the messenger but not the message, in the words of Fred Hampton I will conclude by saying “You may kill a revolutionary but, YOU WILL NEVER KILL THE REVOLUTION!!”