LAW IS BIGGER THAN A TRIBE

I would like to comment the PIC for the good efforts put into bringing to book the ministers responsible for corruption scams. This is a very good move that goes a long way in showing us Kenyan that it’s the dawn of a new era, that the ages of graft and impunity, the ages that the leaders could mismanage funds in their dockets and get away with it scotch free are coming to an end.
The pressure put on Wetangula to exit office and pave way for investigation shows that there is a light at the end of the tunnel in the fight against corruption and impunity in Kenya.
The plan to investigate cases dating back to 1990 like the one involving the justice minister Mutula Kilonzo is going to make a number of ministers sweat in their sleep. And this is the justice that Kenyans need after a dark long era.
However it is surprising to always hear that after a minister is suspended, a council of elders from his/her tribe come out with guns blazing calling the act a plot against their tribe. Kenyans should understand that justice is justice and it cuts across tribes, races and any other cocoon that we have decided to cluster ourselves in.
There is no justice that is meant to discriminate against a tribe. The suspension of Mr. Ruto until his court case is decided is just that, as stipulated in the constitution which we so eagerly voted for, the resignation of Wetangula to pave way for investigation is a parliamentary process not an anti Luhya plot.
It’s a pity that we strive so eagerly to protect the same people who cannot protect public finance in our interest. So much that the rift valley MPs can threaten the PM over the votes in rift valley because they believe in our will to protect our tribal idols and we would vote against the PM just because we have been told that he is plotting against our tribes.
Any Kenyan would realize that the suspension of Ruto was a joint decision by the two principles. Can’t we remember what happened during the maize scandal?
The PM suspended Ruto but the president revoked the suspension and he stayed on. So how is it that right now it’s the PM who suspended him? And besides, political motives or not, a court case is yet to decide whether he is guilty of selling the over 1,745 hectares of Ngong forest land, should all Kenyans know about that? Even if your in the council of elders?
I believe that as long as we are fighting the war against corruption and impunity, as long as the perpetrators of these theft scams against the public are being brought to justice, as long as the ministers who let our hard earned tax money be embezzled under their noses in the dockets they are responsible for are being held responsible for their action, or lack of action. We are in the right track.
The war against corruption is not tribal unless you are from a tribe called ‘corrupt’ and therefore we should cease to tribalize all these issues and let justice take its course