Miguna and Gachoka: Heroes, villains or both?
Miguna Miguna, former advisor to Prime Minister Raila Odinga while launching his book, Peeling Back the Mask, recently dropped a bombshell when he claimed that he has incriminating evidence that could send many politicians to The Hague.
Before we could say Jack Robinson, Miguna was gone to Canada and in came Tony Gachoka, guns blazing. Another ‘former’ in the PM’s office, who claims to have crucial information that might interest ICC.
Miguna and Gachoka are well educated, and knowledgeable opinion leaders. That’s why they, and not Wanjiku, found their way into the PM’s office.
Atrocity
The 2007 PEV was the worst atrocity ever witnessed on our soil since independence. Why has it taken these Kenyans this long to make their revelations? And why do they find it appropriate to reveal this information now?
Are we supposed to view them as heroes, villains or both? For ‘sleeping’ on such crucial evidence, if indeed they have it, they can only be villainous heroes or heroic villains. Sad.
Business unusual at JKIA entrance
It is said that old habits die hard. That seems to be the case for security officers stationed at entry of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, who have in the past been accused of corruption.
According to a concerned city resident, officers still solicit bribes from motorists entering or leaving the airport.
“Police at the entrance continue to harass the public who drive to the airport either to receive or send off their loved ones,” she complains.
Motorists, she alleges, are stopped and harassed on flimsy grounds to extort bribes. In her understanding, officers at the entry are only supposed to carry out security checks and not to “invoke traffic rules”. And even if they are supposed to do so, she says it is wrong for them to ask for bribes while threatening that “passengers would not be allowed to travel”.
The complainant accuses the Director, Kenya Airports Authority and the Commissioner of Police of not doing enough to root out the rot at the entrance.
Is it possible to end these perennial complaints on our gateway to the world, Eng Stephen Gichuki, KAA, Managing Director?
Driver who can see in darkness
Wednesday evening’s downpour caught many a city residents by storm. But it wasn’t only humans who were caught off-guard as windshield wipers of matatu (Reg No KAS 223L) were also unprepared.
They were soundly asleep throughout the two-hour deluge, according Matilda Nzioki who was in the vehicle. Fortunately, the driver was awake. Ms Nzioki, who could barely see an inch ahead asked him whether he could.
He said he was used to driving ‘wiperless’ in such weather. She believed him when she got to her destination in one piece, although her heart was threatening to exit her body.
Why Tunyo division ‘is not in Kenya’
The Kenya Defence Forces have for the second year running violated the rights of some youths in Marakwet East District, according to Mr Sammy Cheboi. Cheboi claims that not a single youth from two locations in Tunyo division have joined the military for two consecutive years.
The only sin the youth “committed” was to fall in the division, which cuts across two districts; Marakwet East and West.
Last year, prospective recruits from Mon and Kibaimwa locations turned up at Tot recruitment centre only to be turned away on grounds that they were from Marakwet West and should therefore avail themselves at Kapsowar recruitment centre. “But in a painful comedy of errors, they we chased away at the second venue because they belong to Marakwet East.”
Justification
Cheboi reports that the same violation was repeated at Tot on August 8, 2012. “In fact, the army men briefly detained a councilor who protested at the bias and did nothing to atone for the crimes against the residents of Mon and Kibaimwa locations.”
Any justification for alienating these very able youths, General Julius Karangi, Chief of Defence Forces?
