From: Tebiti Oisaboke

With all due respect, I’m perturbed to hear police commissioner insisting on prosecuting the DCJ Nancy Baraza for illegal gun charges at the Village Market saga on new year’s eve. I am not in any way trying to defend altercations which transpired between Chief Baraza and the security officer Kerubo Morara. I do absolutely agree the DCJ Baraza should face the law for vindication as any other citizen because when she when shopping at the village Mkt, she she didn’t conduct herself as a DCJ in office but as a street woman. She has only been in office for just a few weeks and should expect everybody in Kenya to know who she is. She does not feature in newspapers or TV screens on a daily basis just as most of our prominent political figures do. So its not Officer Kerubo Morara’s fault for failure to recognize her.

Having said that, I would like to turn to my question, How reliable is Commissioner Iteere and his lieutenants? Prior to the JSC winding up with their emergency meeting which was convened by the CJ Dr Willy Mutunga this past Monday to discuss his deputy’s saga at the Village Mrk, Comm. Iteere addressed a news conference at his office where he announced that the police investigations on judge Baraza had been concluded and they have credible evidence to warrant prosecution on gun charges against her. We are all excited to hear that because we want the law to be applied to all citizens regardless of what status they hold in society. The elite and the mighty powerful have always been harassing the poor and defenseless multitude in Kenya. Its about time this has to come to an end. Many have agreed with the fact that if it was Officer Morara who had “harassed” the DCJ, she could have been locked up immediately. I remember, in 1079 when Pres Nyayo took the reigns of power, he went to Kiambu township in one of his meet the people trips he conducted throughout the country. An 84 year old grandfather attempted to break through his security barricade and hand him a dossier he written. He was summarily swept off and locked up without Nyayo’s knowledge. When word reach him (Nyayo) he ordered for his release and asked his note. And in 1970, when the late Dr. Thadeus Zakaria Onyonka was appointed the Minister for health for the first time, he traversed the country checking on how the healthcare personnel were handling their clients (patients). He conducted one un announced stop to Kisii district hospital where my late dad used to work as a clinical officer. He caught some nurses sleeping off their night duty without making their ward rounds. The man slapped these ladies terribly and some are said to have wetted themselves because it was their minister beating them. Sure enough, the minister was doing the right thing but things like this should not be allowed to happen in modern Kenya.

Coming back to Comm Iteere, I think the chap is pushing for the DC Justice’s prosecution so that he can score some accolades to enable him secure the post of Director of Police. The vetting for those shortlisted has been temporarily suspended. Mr. Iteere wants to look like he is indeed doing his job. If that is the case, where has he been before when their have been a tone of white collar crimes which have happened during his tenor in office and has never taken any action. To this day we are still in limbo as to who killed Olympian Samuel Wamui. The killers have not been brought to book. What about the mysterious brutal murder of UoN second year student Ms Mercy Chepkemboi Keino? Even lay folks like me who have absolutely no criminal justice training, could tell who was responsible in Ms. Keino’s death. Then why has it been so difficulty for his lieutenants to arrest and prosecute the culprits? We already know who they are, and still strolling freely in the streets of the City in the Sun. Are they so important and above the law than Sis Baraza? We have a bunch of influential drug barons of which Iteere has never dared to arrest and lock them up. WHY? Hon John Mwau was left to walk out of court Scot free. Hon Samoie arap Ruto was let go of his Ksh 276 million and is chasing the state house lease. Sonko Mbuvi an inmate escapee is still doing his Akamba dances in the streets. Wamalwa has teamed up with the Mungiki leader Maina Ngenga and pursuit for the statehouse lease too. Just last week, Mr. Kobia and company who were accused of being involved with the DRC gold scandal were exonerate by the court for lack of evidence. We also cannot the police officers and detectives who have been killed while investigating the drug menace in Kenya. Iteere has not even compensated the family of the officer who mysteriously collapsed and passed on while collecting evidence from Baron Mwau’s vehicle mid last year. What makes him think that if we give him the post of Director of Police he will deliver justice to the poor masses in Kenya?? He is not even able to control the Mungiki goons in Nairobi who are terrorizing innocent citizens every day. His own men and women in force are the leading corrupt civil servants we have in Kenya and has not done anything to stop the epidemic. The force is out of control and ill disciplined. If he is aspiring for the post of DP, he should have started doing what was required of him to do from day one when he was hand picked for the Commissioner’s office. We have a laundry full bag of dirt linens for him to wash before he even thinks of the DP’s office. Its unfair for Iteere to bay for DC Justice’s blood when he has not effectively prosecuted other powerful criminals in Kenya. Justice should be even to ALL regardless where one comes from, who they are or what they do for their living. Nobody in Kenya is more Kenyan than another Kenyan!!!

Let JUSTICE reign to ALL Kenyans of all walks of life from corner to corner.

God bless Kenya and Africa at large
TOI

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