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Who Else is Ashamed of his MP?

Does anyone remember the pre-election period; the campaign promises and whatnot? What happened to the seemingly endless promises of change and, hold your breath, good leadership?

Yesterday as I sat down watching the ODM goons trash the Waki report so shamelessly, I could have burst in anger. Can you believe they asked for guys on Waki’s list to be tried in Kenyan courts - the same courts they so very strongly refused to go to in January. Filthy, dirty hypocrisy!!

Who do they think they are? Ati since the evidence was from the public it cannot be “factual”. Doesn’t the report clearly say that the evidence it presents is inconclusive? Moreover, and sadly, trashing evidence given by the victims of the violence is nothing but an ungrateful, disrespectful slap in the faces of all the people who died, were injured or lost property.

Then a few hours later the PNU goons come with ther own weird nonsense (though better than ODM’s) - they want the Waki report and the Waki list of shame to be tabled in parliament so that the alleged perpetrators can “defend” themselves. That’s rubbish - parliament is not a court of law!! Anyone wanting to defend him/herself can do it in The Hague or at the tribunal called for by Waki.

Clearly, these….”people” have failed us but why do we keep electing the same guys year in, year out? Don’t we want the change this country needs so very much? Maybe this has to do with the fact that these same guys have the money to buy into positions of power - many people tell me that getting to be an MP is a very dirty money game. But something has to give. This culture of impunity has to come to an end one way or another. If it has to end at The Hague then so be it! I want leaders I can be proud of.

Related Articles:

• Our Own Pandora’s Box - The Waki Report
• Waki: The pride of Kenya
• The Waki List of Shame
• Made in Kenya
• A Political Insurgency in Kenya

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