We also demand arrest and 
prosecution of those thugs !!!
 
Huts off to Okiya Omtatah Okoiti.  He has taken the
Mau issue in strides and taken the reader on a journey – a painful journey of
just how calculated the fleecing of Kenya has culminated in the destitution of
millions of Kenyans, water shortage, power rationing and violence.  
 
Kenyan brethren continue to live in utter denial, that the
laws we inherited from the colonial master, were just that, colonial.  In the 40
plus years of an independent Kenya, there has never really been a push for a
paradigm shift in these laws because they have worked very well for leaders of
the day. Under the so called  "sanctity of first title",  leaders have literally
continued to allocate large chunks of land nationwide, which in most cases was
being held in escrow for the people of Kenya or for public conservation – such
as is the case with the Mau Complex.   This wanton self-allocation is truly
outrageous and illegal. For years, Kenya’s parliament has used the cover of such
outlandish laws to garner land and public property to scales that can only be
compared to the Sheikhs of Saudi Arabia and indeed, created some of the violence
emanating from misconstrued perceptions about who really owns the land in many
parts of Kenya,  especially in the contentious Rift Valley.
 
And so, Mr. Omtatah demand asserts that we are under no
obligation to reward the Mau thugs, but I hasten to amend that statement to
include full arrest and prosecution; not under the statutes that protect
such land-grabbers, but under a moral peoples law that addresses and severely
punishes those who conspire to defraud the tax-payer and also conspire to
plunder public resources singularly or in tandem with any of the three arms of
government.  Indeed these iniquitous laws are revocable; indeed the
peoples law can over-rule unconscionable and archaic laws; indeed Kenyan civil
society can and must stand up and say NO to carefully self-serving
immoral laws; indeed, civil society can rise up and say NO to political
play at the top that negates theft, but approves illegal financial transactions
to big fish in the dead of night; indeed civil society can rise up and say NO
to successive corrupt governments of Kenya and completely OVERHAUL the
law by electing a new breed of patriotic, fearless, accountable and transparent
leadership. 
 
In the end, the plunder of resources is not limited to
Kenya’s natural resources; it has been extended to EVERY FACET of Kenya’s
landscape, up to, and including, our tax-base, grants, procurement and
elections. The recent misappropriation of our children’s school fees and the
earlier scandal involving the sale of maize to a foreign country while our
people starve, and the totally fudged 2007 elections,  is hard evidence that
Kenya’s former and current politicians do not have a heart. Instead, they are
stone-cold, calculated, institutionalized thieves whose day in court will
one day come to pass.