The recent flurry of activity in the usually sluggish body of public servants we call parliamentarians is in itself an indicator that something they hold close to their hearts is in jeopardy.
We usually see this when a bill is in the works to raise their perks, salaries or to introduce taxation to their incomes. This time around, the catalysing factor is the implication of guilt of some (if not all) in their midst, in the now infamous PEV of 2008. More so the implicated ones had been seen to be standard bearers in the forthcoming general elections in 2012. Some budding coalitions have been jolted loose and now they have no one to gravitate to. The KKK alliance is now an outfit without a center-bolt or a strong chassis.
Most of us might sigh with relief at the scuttling of 'the unholy trinity' and wish that our parliamentarians exhibited the same animation when deliberating matters affecting the ordinary citizens like finding ways to alleviate the living standards of those living in abject poverty, like coming up with ways and means to have all stolen billions from public coffers repatriated and the thieves put in public housing (jails and prisons)
My prayer is that we Kenyans, as a nation do not lose this opportunity to embed or entrench the fight against impunity that the ICC is instilling in our national mindset. We need to come to terms and accept that as our constitution holds, no one is above the law and all citizens are accountable to the nation and the human community the world over. At this stage where we are at a cross-roads, where we have the chance to progress forward into a corruption, impunity free future, chances are the same that we may take the wrong turn and revert to where we were before. We need to take the bold step forward, towards the road unto our 'glasnost and perestroika'.
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