Such A Hypocrite You Are, Sir

Retired President Moi gave an emotional speech in church yesterday thanking God for healing him and re-dedicating himself to serving the Lord. Nothing wrong with that.

The president however failed to follow one particular fundamental teaching of the Bible which he must be familiar with. It says that when offering a sacrifice, if you realize that you have an issue with somebody, then you should leave your sacrifice at the altar and go and sort it out. Only when you have done so, should you return to offer your sacrifice.

Retired President Moi has many issues out there begging to be "sorted out." Forget the fact that he is hell bent on influencing the outcome of the forthcoming general elections against the best interests of the Kenyan people.

The issues that need urgent sorting out include telling Dr Robert Ouko's widow (if he cannot tell the Kenyan people in the face) who murdered her husband and why. Two independent accounts have put the former president at the scene of the crime and evidence from a witness whose life is still being threatened indicates that it is only Moi who would have ordered the "hit."

Then there is the Goldenberg scandal, which had the effect of impoverishing millions of ordinary Kenyans. Here the issue is even more clear cut. Either Moi was involved and if he was not then he should face prosecution for negligence in allowing so much money to leave the treasury while he was president.

Not to mention the mystery of how arrows were imported into the country, most probably using tax payers money but to kill the very same people who paid the bills in the notorious so-called land clashes that were rampant whenever Mr Moi faced an elections.

The retired president is an old man now and has served the country for decades; I therefore believe that Kenyans have it in them to forgive him, no matter how terrible his crimes. But how can you forgive somebody who has not confessed his or her sins?
As it is you have to give it to this old man. The guy's quite strong carrying in his conscience what he is carrying and still being able to stand up in church and address the nation with a straight face.