Let's support Omtatah, other defenders of voiceless people

Busia Senator Okiya Omtatah during a Senate Committee hearing. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

Exceptional Kenyans, such as Senator Okiya Omtatah, who speak for and with the people who cannot represent themselves are becoming fewer and rare. As it happened to some prophets in the Old Testament, the prophetic voices of our time are dimming their spirits to dream of a better, just and moral country because injustices are safeguarded by the mighty, the deep state and a populace that feels helpless.

Prophet Jeremiah died in anguish; frustrated and even wishing he was not born in the first place. "Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me not be blessed! Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, who made him very glad....Why did I ever come out of the womb, to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?" (Jer 20:14 -18).