TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT
Yesterday, many cities, towns and residential areas across the country were non functional. Literally and with close to all businesses remaining closed, the country came to a standstill. Demonstrations were meant for good, to commemorate the deaths of gen Z demonstrators who died in anti finance bill demos, same day last year. The question is why a person who is not interested in joining the demos is not able to open their shop for day's operations. Why are all demos a fight between demostrators and police? Why does it have to end in looting and destruction of property? When and how can we get to a point where police accompany demonstrators and oversee from start to finish of peaceful demos?
There are different reasons someone joins in the demos. Some good people do it for love of their country and the spirit of patriotism, and such people need a pat on their back. Some look for a chance to steal and hence vandalize and destroy private and public property, these actions must be condemned because these are the characters that make demos a bad experience for everyone.
On the flipside, politicians are now running civilian gangs who are now beating up the demonstrators under police protection. This is a dangerous trend that if not stopped could easily turn the country into a militia state where people are free to form their own armies to fight for their own ends.
As a country, we must have gone wrong somewhere for us to have come to where we are today. We could have elected wrong leaders but even so, we have just allowed our moral fabric as a country to beak down completely. The respect of the rule of law is at its lowest and impunity is now puffed up in every corridor of power where the powers that be believe they could do anything, break all laws and get away with it. The trend is not good but we hope and pray that everything could click back to normalcy so that we could be a hopeful people in a country where the rule of law guides action by the leadership and the citizens.
Let kenyans not break the same laws that they are angry about the government breaking because of course, two wrongs don't make a right.
Let us all always stand for what is right,defend the weak, demand justice,
and to hold leadership accountable but within the confines of the law. Let us encourage our people and youth in particular to do the right thing and let us all pray for a better Kenya. May God help us and heal our nation. Amen.
@Stephen Mungai
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