Hypocrisy of Afraha rally

With the just ended rally at Afraha we can conclude that this whole event was a total hypocrisy, and was only done for political mileage

Firstly we were all assured back in 2012/13 that the ICC was nothing national but a personal issue that would be kept that way (remember the president stepping down to attend ICC as a civilian), but as soon as the two candidates took office, they turned their backs on this promise and made it their number one national and international issue drawing in the AU and even the UNSC. Having the cases dropped, we should have expected them to keep it low key and personal but the President and his Deputy took it upon themselves to make it into a national event, knowing very well they would again be breaking their promise of keeping the ICC case personal.

Secondly they claimed it was a national thanks giving event, meant to unite Kenyans, but the reasons behind which we had PEV still remain the same, we have not taken key steps to avoid election fraud, the IEBC has been deliberately underfunded and the institution is plagued with extreme corruption and incompetence within the managing board, the judiciary is no longer independent and presidency is doing its best to have influence over it. What we have witnessed after this thanks giving is that Kenya is even more polarized now than it was just before it.

Thirdly, the symbolic entrance of the Ocampo Six on the back of a pickup truck, should have been a humbling sight, but truth be told, most of those leaders arrived through expensive personal and hired choppers that were strategically hidden from sight of the common mwanainchi, yet we were promised 10,000km of roads, but we can see our own leaders can't travel on them and have to abuse our taxes to fly around the country. What happened to the Eurobond infrastructure money?

Fourth, when PEV victims were paraded and announced at Afraha stadium it was said to be in the theme of unity and healing, but there is no healing without justice, and when the opposition paraded PEV victims and claimed they were doing it in the name of Justice for the victims, the Deputy president comes out and slams the move as scoring political points and causing division, so who had more right of parading them then?

Fifth, why is it that 99% of the time was dedicated to the suspects talking and not the victims talking and assuring the nation that they have forgiven their abusers? Wasn’t this meant to be a unity/healing ceremony?

Sixth when they joyfully called out opposition members who attended the ceremony, did they do this as a sign of unity in the country or was it designed to sow division within the opposition and their supporters?

When the deputy president stood up and insisted over and over that never again would there be violence, who is he speaking on behalf of? If he had nothing to do with PEV of 2007/08 and isn't in charge of any militia or gang then his utterances don’t make any difference.  No one has been arrested or charged with those crimes, which means the perpetrators are still living among us, and does it mean that if the next general elections are not free and fair no one has the right to protest?

At the end of the day, that Afraha rally has brought more political tension and division within the country, and it served the exact opposite of what its said intentions were, unless obviously that was the plan all along.