Some people have no EARS

As a youngman, my mother used to send me to stiches when at times she got so annoyed with our misdoings and after beating us to crying (we loved to be beaten, it was a show of love...actually sometimes we went out looking for a beating)...anyway my mother used to say "some people have no ears" and i would halt my tears and burst out laughing...i could not imagine a person without ears, not really about hearing, but about the shape of that person's head...

i mean really, imagine someone without ears...closer home, think about Matakwei and the earless of Mt Elgon...and you would know the absurdity of that phrase and the pain of not having ears.

but I am telling you that the people running this country have no ears for hearing.

consider this, ICPC, CRECO Membership, KNCHR, FIDA, IRF and many other civic society actors said: ammend that law on the tribunal before it is debated; amend it so that it can be acceptable; ammend it to remove the amnesty clause and to protect it from legal challenge, ammend it and take some time to build consensus and ensure that it is not shot down, please ammend it so that it can get a national buy-in; don't rush it because you will fall in the six month trap....

they refused to listen, they went ahead, and fell into the pit...one karua called it collective responsibility...i don't know what that means, but it is a nice way to fail

come to think of it, have these guys failed, or as a people are we just myopic and unable to see the forest for the trees (whatever!)?

I think kibaki and raila wanted the local tribunal to fail -LEGALLY-so that they may get some let up on the pressure to perform and to deal with issues of AGENDA 4 and especially the constitution and matters of impunity. they prayed for the tribunal to fail because they know if kofi anan gives the letter to Moreno, he will take a lot of time to get his act together and therefore the coalition government (that facilitates their collective stealing from the public coffers) survives much longer...after all, it is clear, and there is a bill and the hansard as PROOF, that they tried; it is the mps who are rogue

and the mps, what did they want? they wanted the local tribunal to fail, not to be instituted here, some for the reasons same as those for kibaki and raila, and others for the reason that since they suspect they are in the list (or may be adversely mentioned in the proceedings) they don't have to go to the expense of hiring lawyers...and after all it would all be very messy considering the competition they faced in the last elections: anything that threatens their five year term is an enemy...

so, my mother should know i am not laughing when i am saying this, am really angry and i now know what it means not to have ears(for hearing)...

Kenyans, i pray that we locate the leaders' ears (not for hearing) and pinch them; it is only that their ears (for hearing) can be activated