Brushing aside IEBC violations not the way to go

Edwin Sifuna

Whenever there are two possible explanations for an occurrence, the simpler one is usually better. Another way of saying it is the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely that explanation is. This means if there are several possible ways that something might have happened, the way that uses the fewest guesses is probably the right one. This is known as the principle of Occam’s razor. We will get to that in a moment.

Now, what has the burning of schools got to do with the fat packages IEBC bosses will get to do the so-called “honourable thing”? Apparently nothing, except for the fact that both involve groups with ample sense of entitlement. Let me be categorical on one thing. Technically and hence legally, innocent students have been victimised by mysterious fires that have somehow started as a result of spontaneous combustion. Possibly with malevolent occult forces taking a hand. While the studious kids want to get on with their education, these confounded fires have kept interrupting them. Pupils at many schools have been forced to go home much to the relief of worried parents. Naturally, they need counselling after the trauma of witnessing an inferno licking their beloved tin boxed into scrap.