Three
years ago today, at almost the precise time I started writing this
post, the man whose sperm was responsible for producing me was dying.
It
was ironic that a man who had survived so many threats and attempts on
his life including one serious one in the 70s when somebody put slow
acting but deadly poison in his office tea would die in his quiet rural
home at the ripe age of 75 far away from all the dark forces that had
threatened him for no other reason other than being a straight cop.
Actually the only reason he survived the poisoning was the quick action
of my late mother who happened to be a medical professional and was at
home when he suddenly collapsed with serious pains in his stomach.
To
be very honest with you my relationship with my late dad was often
rocky and it took me many years to understand the hard disciplinarian
who often confused the boundaries between the police station where he
worked and his home. Still I ended up loving him like any son would love
a father. And in the end I will be forever proud to carry the name of a
man who was prepared to die for his principals (not many of those in
our banana republic).
The man kept on repeating that the
standards and the discipline of the police we had inherited from the
colonials (he joined the force in the 1950s) and which they had taken
many years to establish had been eroded very quickly by politics. He
always added that it would be impossible to restore the police to what
it was supposed to be because the rot had grown into a cancer that would
not be removed without killing the patient.
As I watch the
current vetting of police officers and the crime wave sweeping across
our country today, I remember the old man and his words always spoken
with bitter disappointment.
Without boring you with details (you
can read them all and much more in my book Dark Secrets of the Kenyan
Presidency) the final nail
on the coffin of the old disciplined police force was driven in by the
Jomo Kenyatta administration in the 70s when widespread blood oaths were
administered amongst willing senior police officers. The oaths were to
ensure loyalty to president Kenyatta’s administration at all costs.
Taking the oath was a ticket to untold riches because nothing you did
and no corruption would be prosecuted as long as you were on the list of
loyal officers.
My dad’s colleagues viewed him as a stupid fool
for strongly resisting all efforts to get him to take the oath.
Virtually all of them ended up taking it and as a young man growing up I
wondered why all our family friends were so fabulously rich and we were
just average. Later when I discovered the truth I agreed with the
assessment of his intelligence by colleagues. I don’t any more otherwise Kumekucha would
not exist would it?
With this kind of heads up why should
anybody be surprised about a police officer’s account having millions of
shillings whose source cannot be accounted for? Why should it be a
shock to Kenyans that a police officer whose take-home is barely Kshs
50,000 owns prime property in Nairobi? And remember that is the property
he was careless with and many of them have lots of other property and
assets under the names of their wives, mothers and other relatives.
Well
folks I am sad to report that it is now pay back time. Serious economic
hardships and careless upbringing by parents have driven many Kenyans
into serious crime. Many of the young men in crime today are much better
educated and knowledgeable than our cops and so the result is an
unprecedented crime wave sweeping right across the country. In any case
it is no secret that most policemen (including one who appeared for
vetting and denied that he owned rental houses in a Nairobi suburb) have
been known to regularly aid and then split the loot with criminals.
The long and short of it is that we are in serious trouble as a nation.
Just
to give you a small illustration to drive the point home. In all my
years on this earth I have never been a victim of crime. Luck mostly but
I am also paranoid about my personal security (what do you expect from a
cop’s son?). But in 2013 alone I have fallen victim of serious crime
twice. An informant who lives in Mombasa tells me that he has lived in
the Likoni area for years (and his family for at least 2 generations)
and their only problem has been house burglaries and occasional muggings
of drunks. But in Likoni last week alone there were three armed
robberies of shops (two people were shot and died) and 3 incidents of
suspected terrorist lobbying grenades into police vehicles. IN ONE WEEK
ALONE!
The story right across most parts of the country is the same.
That my dear friends is the state of affairs in our dear banana republic.
Terrorist who came back from the dead
The
GOK has insisted that all the terrorists involved in the September 21st
Westgate shopping Mall attack were killed. Well in a fascinating
development local newspapers have reported the testimony in court by a
brave Administration policeman a Mr Ali Miraj who told a Nairobi court
on Thursday that he shot one of the terrorists in the leg but he quickly
limped away. Read his testimony. Western intelligence sources have identified the name of
the man and have revealed that they are currently in hot pursuit of him
in Southern Somalia (more details including his photograph in my latest
raw notes and Intelligence report as well).
Well a positive
identification of the same man seems to have been made using footage
from CCTV cameras at Westgate and foreign intelligence records.
Apparently the man has been under surveillance for quite some time now.
As you read this scores of agents from the West are pursuing him in
Southern Somalia.
The only logical explanation for this is that
he died at Westgate but miraculously resurrected, albeit still with his
leg injury, somewhere in Southern Somalia. Wow!!
Kumekucha's Latest News Analysis
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