Kibaki Please come!

I must now say that we face a grim situation come 2012 after the elections. Against this gloomy forcasting is a President, watching with a throb and blood thirst for another round of senseless killings. I say this without fear of contradiction.

Let me digress, President Kibaki is the one under whose watch elections were botched, precipitating mayhem, even thus, as President at that time, he watched as tribes set upon one another and maimed, raped, killed and burnt. If he was not sitting on his haunches as butcheringwas going on in The Rift Valley and the retaliatory attacks in Naivasha, he was tacit tly approving thorugh acts oc ommission the butchery of Kenyans by security apparatus.

Let us take the current scenario, as political temperatures rise, as politicians ran around raising tribal and ethnic hatred, The President, the only man with the mandate to protect lives and property, the one who took and oath to protect every Kenyans from any form of aggression, the one to whom all security apparatus report, the one who gets intelligence briefs every other week, seems to be oblivious of the looming chaos that every Kenyan feels in every corner of our county which even the pre trial judge chambers at the ICC have warned about.

It is dismaying and very disconcerting that a President under whose watch hundreds died, many more displaced and several thousands still living in camps can be gravely unconcerned with the turn of events is a vindication that the political class works for interests of fellow lords of impunity. How can one explain the efforts put towards protecting the Ocampo 6, the hundreds of millions sunk into shuttle diplomacy, the rumours that the public is picking the bill for the lavishness accorded the Hague 6 while we have never seen such aggressive campaigns to resettle, one and for all, the IDP issue?

How one earth can such a government be so naive as to hinge peaceful co-existance between two formerly antagonistic yet populous tribes of Kenya on new found friendship of two suspects of crimes against humanity without any further effort towards truth, justice and true reconciliation? Has this resolved the land problems in the Rift Valley? I doubt. What will happen when the two are not political players anymore? Is the Kibaki regime aware that these two may just fall out when Ocampo begins openning up evidence the two political camps gave against each other?

It is very sad indeed, that Kenya has such an impevious old man for President when his peers under similar circumstances, such as Mandela, led their nations out of years of upheaval back to sanity.

Kibaki has squandered every single chance fate has bestowed on him to unite Kenya, starting with the 2002 elections, the 2005 Constitutional Referendum, the 2007 elections and is busy squandering the goodwill that Kenyans bestowed upon him to lead the 2nd Republic after the promulgation of the new Katiba just last year.

If age is wisdom, then we need to redefine wisdom in the context of such calous old leaders.

It is time Kenyans came out strongly to reclaim our country from this abuse and diasbuse the political class of the nortion that we can continually fight tribal wars on their behalf and for their benefit.