Opinion
Four questions for the Cabinet team
Posted Saturday, October 25 2008 at 16:46
In Summary
- Waki is a competent Judge. But has it occurred to you that he could be wrong?
This is a letter to the Cabinet. Greetings and good health to the 43 of you.
I will go straight to the point: there are warmongers amongst you. Some are on the Waki List, others are not. But I am not worried by those on the Waki List.
The gods have a way of dealing with such thugs through disease, and related calamities. My problem is with the ‘‘holy Joes’’ within your ranks: those calling for the uncritical implementation of the Waki Report.
These, in my view, are the real warmongers. They might not bear arms, or supply poisoned arrows to the youths. But their ignorance and non-reflective ways poison the country little by little.
And this type of leaders, who think with their mouths open, is more dangerous than the arrow-carrying type.
NOW I MUST ASK YOU FOUR questions.
One, has it occurred to you that Justice Waki could be wrong? Yes, the man is a competent judge, but we have seen judges like him conduct incompetent investigations.
Take Justice Aaron Ringera for instance. In 2003, he told us in a similar report that he had discovered major corruption in the judiciary. He proceeded to generate a ‘‘Ringera List’’ of 23 judges to be investigated and fixed.
Justice Waki was on this ‘‘list of shame’’ and was disgraced for a while. But, as it turned out to be, Justice Ringera was wrong on this account.
As the Cabinet, therefore, you must interrogate the Waki Report before you crucify your colleagues. It is possible that the man is wrong!
My second question regards the Waki List. Last time I checked, the 43 of you made up government. If this has not changed, how come the Waki List was handed over to a foreigner and not to you?
You were the appointing authority, the investigation happened in Kenya, and you funded its operations.
HOW COME THE LIST WAS GIVEN to someone else? In my view, this was a breach of ‘‘contract’’ on the part of Justice Waki and his colleagues.
Or was it? Maybe the good judge was telling you this: you might not be on the list, but you are all suspects of sorts as Cabinet!
And this is why he preferred to hand over the list to a ‘‘reliable’’ foreigner than to you.
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Submitted by bmmachPosted November 12, 2008 12:28 AM
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Submitted by DoesNotHold
Convenient,isn't it,how you're now taking the sovereignty high road and telling Kofi Annan to 'go back to Kumasi' after we literally forced him to stay in the country earlier this year until a peace agreement was reached.Your article has incensed me beyond anything else I've read this year.Not only do you disappoint in your lack of sensible thought,but you offer a 'solution' that could potentially hurt millions of Kenyans.Perhaps the 'hasn't he outlived his usefulness' question is one that we ought to be asking about you.
Posted October 27, 2008 04:08 PM -
Submitted by DoesNotHold
Mutahi,I generally have a fair amount of respect for your opinions,regardless of whether or not I agree with them.This article,however,crosses all lines...in whose pocket are you that you would propose such obscenely dangerous ideas?Hand over the report to the cabinet?Are you serious?The very same cabinet that consists of people whose names are said to be on this list?
Posted October 27, 2008 01:14 PM -
Submitted by ngurekairu
Mutahi, your article today is quite naive. Waki has hinted that some members of the 'cabinet' could have been involved thus the 'cabinet' can’t be objective in anything to do with the report. The only reason that someone can burn women and children marooned in a church is the comfort that they will never face the law. Just because we have goofed in the past on similar reports does not mean that we have to continue goofing. We can’t afford to loose 1,000 lives and billions every 5 years while escorting these 'gangsters' back to 'cabinet'.
Posted October 26, 2008 03:58 PM -
Submitted by SJ502
Who called for, ‘uncritical implementation of the Waki?’ There are recommendations for a tribunal or the Hague... and in there are due processes of law. What are you talking about casting doubts on Waki and Koffi’s competency? You talk of your involvement in failed peace missions all over Africa...well? What have you offered in your article to heal this nation: nothing.
Posted October 26, 2008 02:58 PM




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this article is evidence of the lack of foresight and maybe hindsight that has forever afflicted the kenyan populace; we're hardly 7 months since the said cabinet ministers were setting their supporters against each other yet here comes Ngunyi asking that we trust them to act on it. I cannot begin to describe the disgust!!