Kaparo looks on as hate breeds division

Francis ole Kaparo

I always imagine that the Francis ole Kaparo-led National Cohesion and Integration Commission is a toothless dog, whose bark is as rare and its bite inconsequential. I have further imagined that all they do is sit around waiting for translators to translate hate speech to the language they understand because in my view they don’t speak what we ordinary Kenyans speak. I also have thought to myself that  NCIC was a good way to keep the elder Mr Kaparo busy in his sunset years.

But the events of this last weekend have forced me to relook and reimagine the commission and indeed the role or Mr Kaparo in that commission. This weekend we lost lives, we threw stones and we vandalised. I say we, because I like to take responsibility there is no them just us; guilty as the actor is the passive onlooker. As they say evil only prevails when good people do nothing. In this statement stood my re-imagination of the commission.