Current MPs will regret defection law

Our MPs have gone down in history for enacting laws they will regret when the time comes to apply the same laws against them.

It is like a child playing with a knife that he ends up stabbing himself with.

While Jaramogi Oginga Odinga served as Kenya's first vice president, he was at the forefront of the enactment of a law to detain Kenyans without trial. He was the first casualty of the law before the Kanu cock crowed.

Kenya's first Attorney General, Charles Njonjo, presided over the enactment of several draconian laws during his tenure.

The same laws were later used to clip his wings and reduce him to a permanently manageable size.

"Don't be Vague. Let us go to the Hague" was the song of many MPs when a Bill to establish a local International Tribunal to try the 2007-2008 post-election violence suspects was taken to Parliament for debate.

The MPs later literally cried and tried to pass the buck when the real Hague elephant entered the National Assembly.

God and Kenyans forgave the MPs for they did not know what they were doing. But it seems the forgetful ones are at it again with the new anti-party hopping law.

Many of the proponents cited American party systems and democracy to be photocopied by Kenyans. Only political fools do that.

The US got independence in 1776 from Great Britain as opposed to Kenya in 1963. The differences in our political democratic systems are as varied as the length of time the two countries have been independent.

If the losers have no other party to join, some will openly support their conquerors' opponents.

History always repeats itself but as a farce and a tragedy.