Where is public outrage over theft of billions of shillings from public institutions?

President Uhuru

Times such as the ones Kenya is going through remind us of French economist, Claude-Frederic Bastiat (1801 – 1850), who famously lamented the parallel universes in which we live in times of plunder.

Plunder can become a way of life, Bastiat said. When this happens, the lords of theft create for themselves a legal system that authorises robbery. They also cultivate a social moral code that justifies theft by giving it a sense of nobility. Hence, there is the theoretical universe of the law and the real universe of impunity.