Parliamentary Politicians Have Moral Basis To Vindicate Anne Waiguru
She needs not to be handled the way the parliamentary committee investigating her case have done. The parliamentary committee did not target to fight corruption. The primary and open intentions were to achieve a diktak on her and her power corridors by connotation. But she remained calm and indicative that alleged commissions of crimes in her office was not all about Jubilee leadership failing but instead it is individualized failures of the tendering persons.
Waiguru does not come from outside Kenya, she is Kenyan born, Kenyan schooled, and cultured .This means that she is now an effort of Kenyan society bringing up a child whether a boy or a girl. She is a legacy of Kenyan value system. Even the parliamentary politicians like Keter and Ngumbo, that are accusing her and planning demonstrations against her, are only but ambivalently clean because they are not in power or if you doubt, try them with a public office for a year.
They are only sheltering under an assumption than a smaller sin is tolerable and hence not to be publicly punished in the public the way a big sin by Anne Waiguru is being dished with a tribalized political nemesis. If not so, let us dare Honourable Keter to organize mass demonstrations against William Ruto, in relation to Weston Hotel, Lang’ata primary and diverse land scandals in Nairobi and Turbo, or even let Ngumbo come out berate with audacity the ODM governors that are overtly corrupt like no one’s business.
I mean public outrage against Sister Anne Waiguru is sesame for political partisanship fuelled by fear of losing in general elections come 2017. I believe my dear respected reader, you know something about mathematics of sampling; apply it to political leadership in Kenya since the inception of devolved governance by picking a random sample or a fairly chanced selection of fifty percent of the state officers in Kenya. You will find that out of the fifty percent, three quarters have already behaved corruptly or committed some substantial social exclusive actions in their capacities as public and elected or political leaders.
You will find hiring of workers by basing on knowledge of turkana language in Turkana County, where a bridge was built using fourteen million shillings, you will meet the miraculous wheelbarrows of Bungoma County costing a whooping package of thousands, or the face-book account in eastern province that costed the County government a budget strain of Kenya shillings twelve million. It is merely an array of corruption theatre that has recently stunned Robert Mugabe to wonder whether there are people in Kenya or only thieves.
We all have to be sorry that all of these leaders are indigenous sons and daughters of Kenya; no European nor Asian. It is the Kenyan society, families and education system that have inculcated these selfish value systems to our brethren in the public offices. Thus over-punishing Anne Waiguru to an extend of quoting her social lifestyle in the media for the sake of shaming her is not logical. She is a girl and hence she needs affiliative love like any other human creature. Or parliamentarians have a phobia for beautiful ladies? Me I don’t have. That is why I argue here that we need a wholesome change in ideology, from the fetishism of private property to the sacerdotal respect for the public property. But not mad casting of stones at baby Anne, as if we have never stolen and hence we all suffer from deficiencies of glory.
Alexander Khamala Opicho,
Lodwar, Kenya