KB TUMEMISS SOLO
"Every person has the freedom and liberty to express his or her opinions without fear or favour...But in this, the freedom of expression does not extend to public incitement or hate speech or words that insinuate discrimination of any kind against another's tribe, colour, religion or background."
This is a loose paraphrase of the Bill of Rights in the 2010 Kenyan Constitution upon which I will premise my arguments.
As far as my memory dates, history has - for times not few - upheld and indeed proved that curtailers of the freedom of expression have almost always had ulterior intents up their sleeves. Either they have a blackish background which they do not wish to let out of the bag, or they feel intimidated by the liberals' views. Simply put, they fear the truth; real as it is.
Retired President Moi was hasty to limit the KANU renegades' freedom of opinion and expression because he was very much privy to the fact that they would sell him out. He, like all others of his ilk, feared the truth - that he was not a lesser devil than his predecessor and worse still, the brute colonialists themselves. Bitter truth.
Closer home in Uganda, President Museveni did not think twice on torturing and maiming the vocal liberal, Bobi Wine when he realised that he was blurting out too much than he supposedly ought to have. What Bobi had tried to put across was that Uganda needed fresh leadership as M7 had become too frail a lion to hunt and had begun smacking lips at its cubs - cannibalistic.
Leave alone all the above illustrations; here is the real deal.
I was flummoxed the other day, right Herr in Kapsabet High School when a boy, Ian Mwanga, was subjected to rigorous and punitive punishments for saying that he had missed Mr Busolo. What is the legality and legitimacy of those intense punishments like washing utensils used by a multitude of 1700 boys, missing classes and doing all sorts of kitchen manual work just for saying that you miss a teacher?
Last time I checked, neither the constitution nor the Education Act or even the infamous School Code of Conduct had outlawed such.
Other schools, not of our caliber though, have done worse in expressing their displeasure over transfered tutors. Change is inevitable, that I don't dispute. The elephant of it however crops up when it comes to adapting to the change. It is hard; this too must not be in contention.
Dormitories have been blazed and rampages have rocked institutions; but to claim that saying "KB tumemiss Solo," is an equal crime would be an overstatement.
Or could it be that somebody somewhere fears the truth - that indeed Solo is better than him? Come to think of it.
I have failed to understand,or do you?
[Don't say I said though.]
©oiraqaleb esq.
This is a loose paraphrase of the Bill of Rights in the 2010 Kenyan Constitution upon which I will premise my arguments.
As far as my memory dates, history has - for times not few - upheld and indeed proved that curtailers of the freedom of expression have almost always had ulterior intents up their sleeves. Either they have a blackish background which they do not wish to let out of the bag, or they feel intimidated by the liberals' views. Simply put, they fear the truth; real as it is.
Retired President Moi was hasty to limit the KANU renegades' freedom of opinion and expression because he was very much privy to the fact that they would sell him out. He, like all others of his ilk, feared the truth - that he was not a lesser devil than his predecessor and worse still, the brute colonialists themselves. Bitter truth.
Closer home in Uganda, President Museveni did not think twice on torturing and maiming the vocal liberal, Bobi Wine when he realised that he was blurting out too much than he supposedly ought to have. What Bobi had tried to put across was that Uganda needed fresh leadership as M7 had become too frail a lion to hunt and had begun smacking lips at its cubs - cannibalistic.
Leave alone all the above illustrations; here is the real deal.
I was flummoxed the other day, right Herr in Kapsabet High School when a boy, Ian Mwanga, was subjected to rigorous and punitive punishments for saying that he had missed Mr Busolo. What is the legality and legitimacy of those intense punishments like washing utensils used by a multitude of 1700 boys, missing classes and doing all sorts of kitchen manual work just for saying that you miss a teacher?
Last time I checked, neither the constitution nor the Education Act or even the infamous School Code of Conduct had outlawed such.
Other schools, not of our caliber though, have done worse in expressing their displeasure over transfered tutors. Change is inevitable, that I don't dispute. The elephant of it however crops up when it comes to adapting to the change. It is hard; this too must not be in contention.
Dormitories have been blazed and rampages have rocked institutions; but to claim that saying "KB tumemiss Solo," is an equal crime would be an overstatement.
Or could it be that somebody somewhere fears the truth - that indeed Solo is better than him? Come to think of it.
I have failed to understand,or do you?
[Don't say I said though.]
©oiraqaleb esq.
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