Palaver

The exposÈ by The Standard on Sunday on the 2007 General Election fiasco is deeply disturbing. The Samuel Kivuitu-led ECK seems to have been overwhelmed, thoroughly compromised or sprinting around polling stations seeing no evil at the ballot boxes. It is now doubtful that anyone in the Tenth Parliament, right from the President, down to the 222nd MP, won their election freely and fairly. Now that seats are being lost like a house of cards, does anyone care to prove the election petition courts wrong?

Granted we have our very own genocide probe courtesy of The Hague’s ICC, it still rankles when Palaver reads tales of the Lord’s Resistance Army’s monthly massacres in the DR Congo. Chilling accounts of rapes, emasculations, slaughter and other macabre killings makes even a hardened journalist cringe in horror. This Ugandan rebel group is reportedly ‘king’ of swathes of jungle in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In which Lord’s name are they slaughtering unarmed villagers?