The judicary, with its reputation of being even more corrupt than the police force, does it really want to be above public scrutiny? Does the Head of the Judiciary want to encourage corruption and inefficient public service in his sector and at the same time gag everybody?

When Mr. John Githongo rose to challenge corruption in Kenya, he was called ugly names at home and by the Kenyans living abroad. We have all along tried to defend him against acusations that he was a traitor to his own community, the Kikuyus. For many years before he rose up, many other Kenyans who challenged corruption suffered a lot. While some suffered torture and imprisonment, others like the late Minister for Foreign Affairs were killed. In September last year, the Kenya Parliament passed a bill which pardoned all political crimes and attrocities committed by the Kenyan leaders before 2003. That was the most unfortunate legislative action by the Kenya Parliament since Independence. Fear of the reprisals from those in authority, is forcing Kenyans to make extremely wrong decisions. This is the same fear that is gradually transforming Africa into Coalition systems of governance where fear is driving Africans into accepting issues against their concience. Where does these loots, corruption and the Pardons lead Africa to? The Pardons do not reduce or eliminate internal tensions, anger and disappointments within the low class citizens who are always the victims of poor governance and corruption. Instead it increases the build up of anger and regret. When pressure is exerted into a ball, there is always silence untill the pressures exceed a certain limit causing the ball to explode. The silence of the African people after being impoverished and manipulated, will not prevent those pressures from getting to the limits. I am warning Kenya and other African leaders, please be careful in your ways of handling the African people. Mr. John Githongo who I admire for his concerns about the rampant corruption that has been common in Kenya, should not be cowed into accepting deals which will help increase anger into the minds of Kenyans. There is no difference between the thousands of Kenyans serving long jail terms for the crimes they committed and the Kenyan leaders who committed even worse crimes and caused death to many. Should Kenya also pardon all the criminals and murderers who were jailed before 2003? Newton Kinity