...Deliver us from evil...

I got a phone call yesterday at 6pm from my brother in Australia. He had seen in the news that some men in Kenya had bought crude weapons- machetes, pangas, bows and arrows, as well as whips. I rushed home to watch the news but I still missed it. So today morning my colleagues broke it down for me as was shown on T.V. last night (God bless the media in Kenya). Apparently, a G.K. vehicle belonging to an Assistant minister, M.P. of Budalangi, Mr. Wanjala, was stopped by policemen in Naivasha due to a tip off. On searching the car, the policemen found the above arsenal. Of course they impounded the vehicle and apprehended the suspects, who are said to be staff from the Ministry of Water and Irrigation (this is yet to be confirmed).

I hear KBC, NTV and KTN covered these goings on fully. As the news crew waited outside the police station, they were astonished to see the young men get into the car and speed off. Kumbe, a phone call had come from a High office, how high no one knows; the caller gave express orders for the car to be released and the young men with it. I hear what followed was something akin to the O.J. Simpson chase (for those who watch Cobra squad you can imagine how that would look on the streets of Naivasha town hehehehe) The three young men sped out of the police station hooting to on- coming traffic with the T.V. crews behind them, navigating through the various streets. At some point the news teams lost their quarry. What I found very interesting is that "wananchi" / residents of the area were aware of what was going on, they went to the police station to see how things would end and when they saw the offenders leave, the boda boda people (bicycle taxi) tried to block their path.

I read from the papers today that Wanjala is blaming his political "enemies". (Ok...) But he has been ordered to present himself to the police at the CID headquarters by Monday next week "to assist with investigations".

These are the things I am waiting to see happen in lieu of these events.The Electoral Commission of Kenya should disqualify the implicated Mr. Wanjala from the elections as they had promised Kenyans they would in such instances. Wanjala should be investigated and arrested, preferably charged with intent to commit heinous acts with crude weapons and remanded for the duration of the investiagtion. And if a Kenyan is approached with money and a panga in order to perform injury to his or her fellow human being, then I ask that they run to the cops and of course keep the money. Let these idiots that call themselves leaders learn that we are capable of providing ourselves our own leadership; I make the choices that govern my life and the welfare of my community. I guess that's what they call reponsible citizenship- being our own leaders and only allowing those in civic office to reflect our own values and social objectives.