I have it upon impeccable authority that former internal security minister under Daniel Arap Moi - Julius Sunkuli - advocate of the High Court - is the new face of Kenya in China. He joins Kibaki and Obama in being addressed as "His Excellency".
What has Sunkuli excelled in?
Yes, he was a magistrate in Kericho for a long time. I cannot claim to have read or heard of any trend-setting judgement by him while on that bench. So he must have excelled elsewhere.
Then he became a member of parliament. Yes, here he may have scored a first. He was the first MP to actually represent a district. His constituency was the same size and shape as the district. For those unaware of Kenyan administrative norms, a district in those days would be composed of many divisions (themselves composed of locations headed by chiefs and sub-locations headed by sub-chiefs). A division was headed by a division officer while a district would have both a district officer and a district commissioner. All this was the creative work of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga (see Not Yet Uhuru for a full confession from him). Sunkuli therefore was an MP with a DC, DO and DO. No other MP can take that way from him.
As minister for internal security, Sunkuli did not excel in anything. He came off as vain and rather power hungry. He lacked the calm and calculating image of GG Kariuki; the power and clout of Charles Njonjo or the determination and focus of Justus Ole Tipis. He certainly could not match the independence of Burudi Nabwera to name just a few of the past holders of that office.
It was however the death of Father Keiser and the Papa Dennis affair that brought Sunkuli to the fore.
The question of father Keiser shall be left for another day. For the record, Sunkuli has denied any involvement whatsoever and the FBI has declared the late Keiser a suicidal maniac. I have disagreed with that opinion most strongly.
On the Papa Dennis affair however I have some questions!
Was not mama Dennis under age by the time she conceived? If so, what does the law say about statutory rape? If he were in the US or Europe, would not his name end up in some register? Are his neighbours in China going to be warned that His Excellency the Child Molester lives in the neighbourhood?
Kenya can do better
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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