Dear Kenyans,
When Gideon Moi speaks of "a once-in-a-generation break from the past" to "resolve many longstanding national challenges that hold us back from realising a united and prosperous Kenya for all," it's code for impunity and amnesty. He's saying forgive and forget.
When Gideon Moi speaks of "a once-in-a-generation break from the past" to "resolve many longstanding national challenges that hold us back from realising a united and prosperous Kenya for all," it's code for impunity and amnesty. He's saying forgive and forget.
https://twitter.com/OliverMathenge/status/1365543764735967233
This has always been the preferred strategy of the colonial state and its owners. Basically, the demand for justice and restitution is itself transformed into the problem. So we are told that there must be a break from the past rather than a confrontation with it. BBI not TJRC.
Also important to remember that when they speak of a break from the past, they do not mean the era and legacy of colonial oppression and dispossession. The clean break they want is not from the past of stolen elections, for example, but the past of resistance to the thievery.
This is why BBI's so thin on electoral reform while its advocates bang on about the need to avoid future electoral violence, not by curtailing opportunities for election theft, but by diluting effect of voters' choice. They've done this ever since KANU swallowed KADU in 1964.
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