Dear Human Rights Defenders and Lawyers, Mr. Paul Muite and Mr. Pheroze Nowrojee,
I have been feeling rather confused and stupid in the past 24 hours despite the reassurance from a friend that I was in safe company as there are 40 million (minus the government of course!) other stupid and confused Kenyans. Nevertheless as lawyers, particularly ones of such high stature and globally respected for being defenders of Human Rights, I am certain that you will give even a fool a fair hearing so bear with me as one of 40 million stupid Kenyans:
Yesterday, I was thrilled to hear the good news that the National Campaign Against Wasteful Government and Political Impunity ("Operation Fagia" - I love this name - sweep the trash out!!) had its first hearing in court against the Parliamentary Service Commission (for my fellow fools - those 3 big words translate to one small one: thieves). I was even more thrilled to hear your names associated with this case! Wow! Finally the Kenyan Court of Justice was hearing a case against the hefty salaries paid to MPs and all sorts of nasty things they have done to us. And two of Kenya most renowned Human Rights Lawyers and Activists were right at the centre of this!! How exciting!! I quickly googled your names to remind myself of all the amazing things people like you and the Open Society and KHRC and KNHRC (ahh, this list of of human rights activists is endless so forgive me if I have left anyone out) have done for Peace, Truth and Justice. Yes, so I googled your names and just a few excerpts to tell our readers a bit more about you:
I have been feeling rather confused and stupid in the past 24 hours despite the reassurance from a friend that I was in safe company as there are 40 million (minus the government of course!) other stupid and confused Kenyans. Nevertheless as lawyers, particularly ones of such high stature and globally respected for being defenders of Human Rights, I am certain that you will give even a fool a fair hearing so bear with me as one of 40 million stupid Kenyans:
Yesterday, I was thrilled to hear the good news that the National Campaign Against Wasteful Government and Political Impunity ("Operation Fagia" - I love this name - sweep the trash out!!) had its first hearing in court against the Parliamentary Service Commission (for my fellow fools - those 3 big words translate to one small one: thieves). I was even more thrilled to hear your names associated with this case! Wow! Finally the Kenyan Court of Justice was hearing a case against the hefty salaries paid to MPs and all sorts of nasty things they have done to us. And two of Kenya most renowned Human Rights Lawyers and Activists were right at the centre of this!! How exciting!! I quickly googled your names to remind myself of all the amazing things people like you and the Open Society and KHRC and KNHRC (ahh, this list of of human rights activists is endless so forgive me if I have left anyone out) have done for Peace, Truth and Justice. Yes, so I googled your names and just a few excerpts to tell our readers a bit more about you:
- "Pheroze Nowrojee is one of Kenya's and Africa's most well known human rights lawyers. He has been a mainstay of the Kenyan national democratic movement for many years and like many other so called "dissidents" and "disgruntled elements" (to revive the curious lingo of the KANU yesteryears) got into several brushes with the one party dictatorship." (As a tribalist, I was even more proud given that we are sort of from the same tribe - well close enough. You know they call all of us brown ones, "choots")
- Paul Muite was much harder to find a good paragraph about but I was really pleased when I found a video feed of him commenting about the disgraceful behaviour of the government arresting people for wearing tshirts (You know those silly tshirts that demand Kenyan MPs pay tax!!).
As a stupid Kenyan, of course I did not read the press statement properly but in my bid to fight my inherent stupidity, I read the press statement again...and then again...and again. Why? Because of this:
The PSC has procured senior lawyers Mr. Pheroze Nowrojee and Hon. Paul Muite, the Attorney General represented by State Counsel Mr. Omondi and the 40 million Kenyans are represented by lawyer Mr. Kibe Mungai.
Surely this is a mistake!! And I know better than to trust everything I read online being a blogger who spews only propaganda and half-truths myself! But then today morning, I rushed to the petrol station at the crack of dawn to purchase a newspaper (because the newspapers never lie and since they have their freedom barely hanging on a shoestring - they definitly don't take any chances printing garbage like us bloggers) and look!!!
The PSC has procured senior lawyers Mr. Pheroze Nowrojee and Hon. Paul Muite, the Attorney General represented by State Counsel Mr. Omondi and the 40 million Kenyans are represented by lawyer Mr. Kibe Mungai.
Surely this is a mistake!! And I know better than to trust everything I read online being a blogger who spews only propaganda and half-truths myself! But then today morning, I rushed to the petrol station at the crack of dawn to purchase a newspaper (because the newspapers never lie and since they have their freedom barely hanging on a shoestring - they definitly don't take any chances printing garbage like us bloggers) and look!!!
(Click on article to read full story)Mr. Muite and Mr. Nowrojee, I am very confused. Do I understand from the above that you will indeed defend the Parliamentary Service Commission against the people of Kenya who think that Kenyan MPs get paid far too much tax free cash? I thought we all agreed that this was the case except the MPs of course? I thought the pair of you have been actively condemning those chaps in parliament for all sorts of important things like the trillions lost in corruption, the Waki Report, the hundreds of thousands of Kenyans facing starvation?
I know!! How stupid of me!! You are actually on our side but pretending to be on their side and then they will pay you lots of money to defend them and you will donate it to dying Kenyans! And then make sure you lose the case and they will all go to jail and Kenya will be a country of Peace, Truth and Justice once again!
I know!! How stupid of me!! You are actually on our side but pretending to be on their side and then they will pay you lots of money to defend them and you will donate it to dying Kenyans! And then make sure you lose the case and they will all go to jail and Kenya will be a country of Peace, Truth and Justice once again!
