After the lies, Jubilee administration is now the testing waters

Kenyans, mostly, the civil societies have held several protests against actions of impunity. Their anger is in most cases directed towards the National Assembly which had seemed to perfect the art of being above the law and robbing the public. One of such protests saw the introduction of pigs to the norm of demonstrations and later, we all came to refer to MPs as MPigs, in unity. We all stood together against their violations of the law and robbery attempts. Whether we succeeded or not is not of importance as long as we stand in unity.

Most recently, David Kimaiyo, the police Inspector General issued an order to police to impound all vehicles with tinted windows. This is one of the most ridiculous decrees, I could say. Why would anyone care if you tinted your car windows or not? And who says that terrorists only use vehicles with tinted windows. In my belief, tinting one's car windows, whether for privacy or for whatever reason is ones personal choice.

I also doubt if the police could prosecute people in courts of law for tinting their car windows. Maybe it is in full knowledge of the illegality of the order that police are harassing motorists and demanding bribes instead of going ahead and filing cases against the offenders. What the order has done is create even more fear and discredit the police on their ability to handle terror and crime. The order has curtailed citizens' freedom.

Even though I abhor terrorist groups and especially the Al-shabaab, I have recently been imagining that recent attacks on buses and other unarmed civilians were not really acts of terror but carefully engineered moves by the executive to instill fear and come up with ridiculous laws to curtail the freedom of citizens. We all know how Shabaab always comes up claiming and praising attacks they execute. They never claimed these attacks.

It is a relief to know that the Law Society of Kenya, leaned individuals with respect to the law have offered to assist those prosecuted on the basis of these bogus and unlawful orders by Kiamaiyo.

Then, President Kenyatta ordered the treasury to repay the Anglo leasing debts that Kenya owed some ghost companies. In the same breath, he also called upon responsible bodies such as the Ethics and Anti Corruption body to investigate and ensure the perpetrators involved in the scam were brought to book.

The executive had earlier sought to get parliamentary approval on the matter, perharps hoping they could transfer their tyrant rule to parliament since they had their so called 'tyranny of numbers'. When the Jubilee legislators declined to rubber stamp the request, the president went ahead and issued an order to have the debts cleared whether parliament liked it or not.

This leaves me wondering if they had really intended to get parliamentary approval on the Anglo leasing deals or it was just a move to veil our sight and paint them in the light of a government which had respect for the rule of law.

Do not forget even more scandalous tenders being approved by Jubilee every few days. The standard gauge railway tender will go ahead despite serious questions raised. Maybe some time in future, we may have to invetigate this too, as is the trend.

Yet still in quick succession, in an apparent change of administrative functionalities, President Kenyatta has, or rather intends to award County Commissioners executive authority over governors in the counties. This is a move engineered to cause confusion and render county governments, elected by the citizens, irrelevant and powerless.

A few people do not see this. Not just yet. What they see is that Jubilee is being attacked by those who do not appreciate their governing policies. What I see, is a digital regime running out of ideas and falling back to the stone age tactics used by their predecessors to run the country aground.

After attempts to silence civil societies, the media, county governments and citizens. After embezzling public funds and coming up with such theories and probable explanations as large wage bills, this seems to be just the begining. Let's sit back and watch the regime rob us of rights and public property.

This is how we pay. And this is how choices have consequences.