By SARA BAKATA
Posted Saturday, January 14 2012 at 16:21
Posted Saturday, January 14 2012 at 16:21
Some religious people believe in God’s vengeance. Many others call it fate, Karma or simply the universe setting things right.
For poor Lady Justice Nancy Baraza, Kenya’s first deputy chief justice, facing a tribunal to investigate her conduct must be all rolled into one.
She survived grilling by her peers and an almost humiliating scrutiny to get the coveted job only to bring herself to relive it all over again.
Whether she did pinch the security guard’s nose or not, threatened to shoot her or not, the big question is, had she forgotten so soon the grilling she went through?
Wasn’t she humbled by the appointment? And what was she thinking on that eve of 2012?
Some people have argued that she’s being judged harshly, but the truth is, these times call for harsh judgment.
The country is in transition in so many fronts and is looking for exemplary leadership. Could she have handled the situation differently? Of course yes.
The ensuing public discussion would have been just as animated but there would have been no calls for her resignation because there would not have been any physical intimidation, no insulting touching of body parts and threatened gun violence would not have featured. But that is now water under the bridge.
The good lady now faces a tribunal. This means a whole new file will be opened again to look into her personality, a blot really in her CV, and she will be used as a point of reference and the butt of bad jokes for eternity.
Yet it did not have to come to this. She should have left with the little dignity she still holds.
Unfortunately she will have to sit through another rough dragging in some filthy, murky mud. Tough luck Lady Justice.
You brought this on yourself. At this point, your biggest worry is not what the facts are but who will sit on the tribunal to investigate your conduct.
Do you have any peers who will risk to give you a second chance and be branded perpetrators of impunity?
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Thanks to the Constitutional Court, there is a chance we would all for the next year need tranquilisers to get by.
Thanks to the Constitutional Court, there is a chance we would all for the next year need tranquilisers to get by.
The madness of party politics and presidential campaigns has started in earnest and to imagine elections could be early next year makes me want to go into exile in Mars.
There is now a horn party, a bus party, a wiping party, an openly secessionist party and God knows what other whackos out there.
I’m dizzy already and I hope I go into a trance till June 2013!
sbakata@ke.nationmedia.com
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