While our MPs are at the Hague singing patriotic songs to show solidarity with the Ocampo6, IDPs still sleep in tents three years after they were displaced from their homes, yet none of those MPs has gone to the camps to sing patriotic songs with them. As church leaders fell over one another to organize prayer meetings for the O6, IDPs still whiled away time in camps with no one to share a word of prayer with. The six will arrive back and we will be so engrossed in holding homecoming parties and prayer meeting yet no one is thinking of how the IDPs will finally get to their homes. Talk of a country of misdirected priorities.
Those that accompanied the six to the Hague claim to have gone there to in a show of solidarity and patriotism but to me that was a show of solidarity with impunity. Our politicians have turned the ICC process into a mudslinging and name calling contest with there biggest spectators being the media house that are too quick to turn our sitting rooms into arenas for the same. Much attention is given to politicians yet the more deserving cases of displaced persons and other victims of the PEV are left out. The utterances that we are hearing from our politicians now are similar to those that we heard in 2007 which culminated in the violence of 2011. Kenya a thriving economy and democracy has reduced itself in the eyes of the international community into a failed state. The governement which is meant to be protecting its citizens and ensuring that the rights of the everyone and especially the minority has abdicated this role. It has become more interested in fighting for the rights of the suspects than for the rights of the victims. So who then will protect the ordinary wanainchi?
