Commentary By Leo Odera Omolo

If the Kenyan MPS sitting in the current parliament are tired of deliberating on nationally importance issues that affect the Kenyan people, then they should simply ask President Mwai Kibaki to dissolve parliament and call for snap elections.

I am saying the MPs seemed to be too tired and might have been overworked with issues connected to the new constitution dispensation and perhaps they need time to rest.

Our legislators seemed to have run short of ideas and need to be replacement by people who are fresh and have unpolluted ideas to carry this country to the height of meaningful development that our nation is yawning for.

I am saying this because last Thursday, our MPs spent the best part of their afternoon sitting debating on seemingly forged fake documents purporting it to have come from a source within the British government. But reading the border lines of issues contained therein the document one could easily make an intelligent guesswork that it was the work of uncouth and primate master forgers.

Furthermore the forged document had three political and criminal angles and issues in its contents. One angle is the ongoing campaign for the next presidency of the Republic of Kenya, and succession of President Mwai Kibaki seat at the State House.

Secondly, the friends of the Ocampo Four, who are the suspects in the ICC criminal cases at The Hague, are so busy burning the midnight oil in desperate efforts to save the skin of their friends now facing trials at the ICC for the allegation related to post election violence in Kenya in 2007/2008.

The third angle is the plot to scuttle the presidential bid of the Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga by the members of the amorphous G7 alliance after the latter had proved to be so popular with the Kenyan voters despite all the hurdles being placed on his path t the presidency.

It has got into out minds and hearts that every tricks in the book is being deployed by he so called G7 alliance to drag the Prime Minister’s name into the ICC cases for political expediency .The tricks includes the use of fake and forged documents meant to wedge artificial and cosmetic war between him and the president of this country..

During the debate which were televised alive by one of the National Television network in Kenya, one MP who is a close friend of one of the Ocamp Four was seen running up and jumping from bench to bench mobilizing his colleague drumming up the support the fake document, even going as far as earning the of the wrath Deputy Speaker who issued a stern warning t the MP in question telling to behave.

Written in uncouth, unpolished English or what I can term as {Jua Kali English} and therefore any sane Kenyan in his best frame of mind could easily detect that the document did not come from a source within the British Government as claimed.

It was obviously the project of the G7 alliance reading the borderline of those who table it and those who rose to speak in support of the fake document. I has now made e to believe the allegation in some quarters that there are “MPs for hire” in the Kenya’s Tenth Parliament judging the day of the multi-billion maize scandal, the Grand Regency Hotel’s deal scandals, and the just concluded contentious issues relate to the falling Kenya Shillings in which members of the G7 group had labored so much to have the name of the Governor of the Central Bank expunged from a report prepared by a parliamentary committee that had investigated.

In another angle, the document was the cheap work of not very clever forgers who had apparently thought it could cause despondency and misunderstanding between President Mwai Kibaki and the Prime Minister Raila Odinga and perhaps bring own the coalition government headed by the two principals.

Contributors, some of them having come from the Somali community wanted Kenya to fall to the dog in a same way the neighboring Somali Republic has fallen and became ungovernable state, but Kenyans are very much awake and would not wish to see their motherland going to the dogs.

I am only wondering what the rationale could the Speaker of the August House had allowed a debate on unauthenticated document which any Kenyan with elementary standard of education can easily detect to have been the work of those unpatriotic and uncouth forgers hell bent in slandering the name of an individual.

The Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s has been the subject of insult and abusive languages used during the so-called prayers-cum-political rallies by the Ocamp Four ICC suspects who have taken effused to carry their own crosses and ace their trials at The Hague as men, but instead had chosen to defend themselves through public rallies, forged documents aimed at winning the public sympathies.

In my view and judging from the people whose names were used as the authors and those who appeared to have been served with the copies of the document, the whole episode sounded like the title of the famous book we read in primary school entitled “Alice in the Wonderland”.

Late the Ocampo Four face the reality that the ICC trial is a serious matter and not a political gimmick of this magnitude and they should prepare themselves well for it instead of resorting to cheap propaganda and using other people as scapegoats or punching bags.

Our Parliament is the supreme political organ of the state and as such must not be used for the spread of cheap propaganda aimed at distorting serious issues for gaining political mileage and for character assassination. The MPs should spend their valuable times wisely while deliberating on issues that are relevant to the aspiration of Kenyans and not for defending their hires.

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