Why we don't have to listen to Ezekiel Mutua

Here's why we don't have to listen to Ezekiel Mutua any more.

Although, if you're in the film industry, you probably weren't listening to him in the first place. Not because he felt the need to comment on scientific actualities of homosexual animals with a ludicrous suggestion that they must have learnt their 'bad behaviour' from visiting tourists (can you imagine that? Red-blooded wild animals, deciding to copy human sex instead of eating said humans. Makes sense, right?), though that particular brand of ignorance is a pretty strong case in itself.

And not because he regularly proves that he has no actual support for the industry – as demonstrated the last time there was a public participation forum concerning film laws in this country. What Mr Mutua said to us and what he said to the press later was a completely distorted account. He basically made us look like – and called us – mad men, for trying to stop his draconian rulings. This is, of course, the guy who tried to ban YouTube. I mean,...YouTube!

HYPOCRISY AND FABRICATIONS

No, not because of those two strong reasons above, but because Mr Mutua is given to hypocrisy and fabrications. Let's be honest, we're all confused about this guy's mandate. Is he supposed to ban movies? Or ban the Internet? Is it up to him to decide what goes on pay TV viewership choices? Where is he getting his intel from? Why would a government official feel the need to show off a forged diplomatic passport? Who made him the moral police?

No one. And the answer to most of those questions is no. Take, for instance, his actual role – to classify movies that come into or are made in Kenya, to categorise them so that Kenyans know what they are getting into when they walk into a cinema. I'm sure he kind of still does that, but it would seem that he is more interested in engaging in media circuses of his own making.

POWER TRIP

What I am sure is not his role is to take movies made by hard-working Kenyans, fake that he was in any way involved in the making or supporting of the movie, take said movie and have an illegal screening of it in Las Vegas and then, as is his MO, not apologise at all for it. He is supposed to protect copyrights, and people's rights, right? Not do the exact and complete opposite.

And that's why we don't have to listen to him. His power trip as head of the Kenya Film Classification Board is a sample of what a reign embroiled in unmitigated idiocy looks like, and he has no idea what he is doing. Mr Mutua is – and really, has always been – cancelled. Stop wasting your good time.

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