If Jubilee leaders are sincere about saving Ruto, they need to change tack

NAIROBI: Power and wisdom rarely live in the same house. The report of the Commission of Inquiry into Post Election Violence is an expose of how low the human being can sink, if he should be left unchecked by the strictures of social order.

The 529-page report, also known as the Waki Report, reads like a vision from hell. It is a capsule of tales of murder, arson, rape and unbridled man’s inhumanity against man — the darkness of the human soul laid bare. Women are gang-raped in front of their children. Some woman’s private part is opened up with a machete. This is meant to give the rapists easier access into that space. A man’s private anatomy is sliced off in its entirety, in front of his children. The eldest, a five-year-old, gets deranged. Long after his father is dead, the boy is still talking to him. He is asking, “Daddy, why have they cut off your thing? What will you be using to susu?”