END OF WEEK POLITIKS
The EU does overstretch itself! Characteristic of its ever rising conditions, it wants the Electoral Commission boss Samuel Kivuitu’s tenure extended after December 2. That’s none of your business. This is a Kenyan, nay President Kibaki’s prerogative. Isn’t it condescending for a congregation of the EU size to suggest that only one man fits the bill in a country with millions of able adults?
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Who said Kiswahili is only for East Africa? US State of Kentucky is famous for horse racing. This year, the event has two additions — Queen Elizabeth II, who will be one of the guests. The other is a race horse called Bwana Bull. Will Bwana Bull shinda the derby on Saturday?
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Some US lawyers have put up an ad: "Life’s too short, get a divorce." On both sides of the signboard are pictures of a seductive woman showing her cleavage and a man showing his six pack. Is line between law and prostitution this thin?
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Figures have become a tricky affair. Over the KQ crash, Cameroonian authorities were searching for the wreckage 150km away for a plane that had gone down only five kilometre from the airport. In the US, Senator Barack Obama confused a tornado death toll of 12 for 10,000 and had the cheek to blame it on tiredness!
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If the Kenya's Eddah Gachukia-led team from the Ministry of Education on secondary school costs wants fees to reduce, just send home the bands of men and women in the name of boards of governors. They are a relic of the one-party basis of the Constitution, largely well-to-do and retired, short-termists who think good schools must be grandiose ones. Give parents the role to manage boarding.
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And finally …
Whoever said the law is an ass was damn right! A Nyeri court has sent a 100-year-old man to jail for a month for failing to pay the cost of a civil suit dating back to the 1990s. He’s said to have failed to proceed with the suit yet he did not even know it had been dismissed.
Sometimes it is difficult to understand whether courts live in Kenya or in Pluto. Just let the old man go home!
