From: Tebiti Oisaboke

Bota;

I hope you had a good thanks giving last week. Sorry I might have missed your message due to the heka-hekas of the holiday mood. The info you shared here is shocking to most of us even though we kind of heard about it soon after Chief Ocampo named the six suspects. They started running up and down hunting for the best attorneys in the world. At that time, news came out that the Kibaki administration had offered to cater for their legal fees. I thought they were kidding. It has now been confirmed that regardless of the country’s public out cry, the authorities went a head and footed their legal bills irrespective of the plights of the IDPs serving conditions which have not been completely solved yet. Some of their kids have picked up some obscene behaviors from the camps they live in, epidemics rates are high due to unsanitary conditions, lack of sufficient schools, prostitution, drunkenness, lack of employment opportunities and the list of social evils goes on and on. The government has completely ignored the poor and only takes care of the rich and mighty. In my opinion, the Ocampo Six are well cushioned financially and need no state assistance to recruit attorneys for them. Its unfair to pass a blank check to the poor folks to clear for the financial messes the rich and powerful people create for themselves. Right now, 99% of Kenya’s poor families have been given another uphill task, that of footing the FPE funds that was plundered from the Ministry of Education. We cannot afford to live in missarable conditions toiling day and night only to find that all our sweat is enjoyed by a few billionaires in Kenya. A friend texted me the other day and told me that she can’t even afford a simple pain killer Aspirin for her kid’s toothache while the government of which she is a tax payer spends her money to hire legal services for suspected murderers. Isn’t this something?

God bless Kenya
TOI

— On Wed, 11/23/11, Bota Birika wrote:

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