Those who killed Kenyans during post election violence should confess too

After weeks characterised by confessions, accusations and counter accusations from the political class, one can only keep their fingers crossed as to when and if there will be confessions on who organised for the massacre of over 1000 Kenyans.

Today I endeavour to turn back the wheel of time. It is December 2007-or let me forward it a little bit and is early 2008. Innocent Kenyans lost their lives, families were broken, business empires reduced into smoke, children rendered orphans and peace of the nation shattered.

No one could have covered the story better. No journalist could have hid the fact that every corner of our country was bleeding and that the nation had thrown humanity to the dogs. Thank God we did not have social media tools.

Horrifying tales-more than that captured by photojournalist Boniface Mwangi -could have matched the 1994 Rwanda genocide. May God rest the souls of dear Kenyans in peace, may He be the ICC for the perpetrators.

Now moving the wheel of time quickly but carefully in the spirit of healing and reconciliation, I stop at 2015. Then I meet a group of politicians too careless with their words, and seemingly too forgetful in their memory and quick to mislead the masses.

If I was still in my accounting lectures, then my professor would be cautioning me to ensure the debit and credit side balances. But all is not lost, even in a free world, we can still be mindful to ensure that both sides of the coin are pursued.

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With vigour, we have taken years arguing over who fixed who to get to the ICC list. There has been a series of prayers to help collapse the cases of DP William Ruto and journalist Arap Sang. In the spirit of brotherhood, healing and reconciliation, that is logical.

After all, the protagonist and the antagonist got married in a colourful, though hurriedly arranged wedding. And they are still living happily thereafter.

Then there is the other part of the coin we conveniently chose to forget. The mention of post-election violence and who might have incited Kenyans against Kenyans sends chills among our politicians. Maybe because those who died were buried and those who survived were ‘paid’ Sh10000- enough to forget their loved ones and reconstruct life!

That can only explain why Gatundu South MP has taken us to the next level-confessions. His allegations that he used Sh2000 to procure witnesses to build up a case to answer against Ruto has caught the nation talking. Whether that will work for or against the deputy president cannot be established.

If for a minute, we allow our African belief that dead people still see what we do, then the dead must be wailing. They are waiting for ‘good and honest’ people like Moses Kuria who can open their hearts and confess.

As the holy day approaches, the fourth estate will not fail the political class. They will roll the cameras for them in broad daylight as the nation awaits more confessions. It can only be better if we have ruthless killers or planners and or financers of the violence (if any) take to the pulpit, kneel down and confess.

We failed as a nation to pursue the killers; instead we hid under Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission whose fruits are questionable especially that even after it completed its task, internally displaced persons were still not allowed to go back to their original places of residence.

Therefore, in the spirit of healing and moving ahead, it is only fair that Kenyans who orchestrated the deadly ordeal come out and confess. At least that will appease the blood of our brothers and sisters that is crying out from the ground.

The thought that MP Samuel Chepkong'a wants Parliament to form a committee to discuss the authenticity of Waki Commission is laughable. We have hundreds of commissions whose shoddy work was worthy investigating but we “moved on.”

That a commission wants to sit and discuss another commission paints a story of how Justice Philip Waki defied the tradition by letting its findings and recommendations see the light. Probably we have become accustomed to reports that never cause even a single ripple in the ocean.

I attended a church service recently and the clergy man said: Yes, the country needs citizens with ‘contrite’ hearts like that of Kuria, hearts that can own up their political sins in broad daylight.

I believe if over 1000 PEV victims could make one wish, it could be to see their killers confess too.