Mr President, ignore the crowd and do the right thing in this war

President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the nation during the Fourteenth [14th] Presidential address on the Covid-19 pandemic at State House, Nairobi. 

Dear Mr President, what a week this must have been for you! With so many of us sending you open letters and stinging video clips, even the most elastic of us can snap. Glad you have not. It is odd that I should do this too. But today being Easter Sunday, it marks the climax of what is generally known as the Passion Week – the most difficult week in the life of Jesus on earth. As you reflect over the pressure you have experienced over the decision to impose a lockdown in some five counties, remember you are not the first. Some 20 centuries ago, Pilate found himself in a very similar situation.

Having reviewed the scientific facts and evidence before him, he knew he should preserve the life of Jesus. But the crowd would hear none of it. His offer of the criminal Barabbas could not fly either. They wanted Jesus dead, and in a typical mob psychology, they even pronounced a curse upon themselves, accepting the blood of Jesus to be upon their heads and that of their children.