Who is fooling who?

Just what happens to academic brilliance and intellect when one spends time in 'the august house' in Nairobi?

It seems like every academic who ventures into this house is churned round and round and turned into just a heckler of the lowest mental faculty.

Professors, doctors, lawyers-a.k.a. 'learned friends', theologians, all end up behaving like they have never been schooled in any form of educational institution where rational reasoning and forms of decorum and discourse is instilled.

-Most recent manifestation: A trained lawyer who happens to be a Cabinet minister (in suspension) has called on the government to put up a legal defense team-personnel and funds, for the 'Ocampo six'. Does he really know what he is talking about? Does he know that he is essentially calling for the government to defend 'the six' against the victims of the PEV (post elections violence)? Does he know that he is asking the country to rally behind 'the six' as they defend themselves against the allegations by the victims/survivers of the PIV (politicians' invoked violence) of our yesteryears?-or who does he see as the complainant in the Hague trials? Ocampo? As a lawyer, shouldn't he be in the forefront to educate and explain to the lesser mortals, the unlearned friends, the implications and complexities of the legal procedures at play?

Mr Minister, with all due respect, I submit that you ought to concentrate on your own defense in the yet to be resolved 'Tokyo Connection' and leave Kenyans to decide themselves on who to charge or defend as far as PIV or grand corruption is concerned.