Matiang’i’s crimes and recite “River Yala bodies”, Ruaraka land theft blah blah blah, it’s akin to an armed gangster pointing accusing fingers at a pickpocket for committing crimes. There’s no equivalence between the two. Let’s go through the horror laundry list:
1. Matiang’i has never been an ICC indictee.
2. He has no history of ordering the killings of scores of unarmed youth protesters demanding good governance or later presiding over their illegal abductions.
3. He doesn’t have on his hands cases of gross femicide such as the Kwarre bodies where the arrested suspect mysteriously disappeared from police cells and has never been found.
4. Matiang’i has never had land grabbing cases dating back from 1990 to the present day.
5. He doesn’t own a hotel built on stolen public land.
6. He hasn’t grabbed 1,600 acres which Nairobi city had reserved for a sewerage plant.
7. He hasn’t illegally annexed to himself 15,000 acres of ADC land in Laikipia.
8. He hasn’t inhumanely dispossessed hundreds of poor peasants from 2,500 acres of their land in Naivasha.
9. Matiang’i does not thrive on conflict of interest. His businesses, if any, do not live and breathe from extorting contracts from the State.
10. He is not allied to a foreign warlord who has caused the destruction of his country and has been indicted for genocidal crimes by the US, among others. Such alliances, used for financial gain and underhand schemes like gold smuggling, have never been linked to Matiang’i.
11. He does not have secret bank accounts in UAE stashed with looted cash.
12. He doesn’t own a Sh3B super apartment in Dubai bought with dubious cash.
13. He doesn’t have shell companies registered in UAE that buy up local banks like Sidian (formerly K-Rep bank) or become shareholders in State entities such as the Sh104B data information system for SHA/SHIF.
14. Matiang’i has never been voted the 2nd most corrupt individual in the world (the 1st actually, since the person who had taken that despicable position was ousted from office).
Etc, etc, etc.
(Oh, and Matiang’i has a genuine doctorate. In Literature).
