Should institutions always speak in favor of CORD to remain on the safe side?

It all started in 2013 when the coalition for reforms and democracy (CORD) principals disputed the election results and petitioned the presidential election. The Supreme Court upheld the elections and discarded the petition. Since then, this coalition was hell bent on accusing every institution of incompetence, corruption and ineptitude.

At first we were buying their narrative but it has reached a level where we only realized these people made blame games their business. They told us IEBC is inept because it over saw a dodgy election, we accepted. They told us our judiciary is corrupt because the Supreme Court made a compromised ruling on the presidential petition. Some Kenyans still bought this. A long the way, they in one way or another blamed the NCIC, EACC, TSC, PSC,IPOA Parliament, judiciary and most frequently the executive for being corrupt, depraved, debased and/or inept. What is chocking however is they never related these institutions with these ills when they ruled in their favor. Should these institutions always speak in favor of CORD to remain on the safe side?

All this notwithstanding, over the past two to three months, this coalition has been creating chaos in the name of IEBC demos. Protestors are accused of throwing stones, robing business, attacking pedestrians and engaging the police in violent and running battles. In the process, many innocent Kenyans were killed and property worth billions destroyed. This has attracted the attention of the international community with diplomats calling for peace. We saw the president bowed to pressure and nominated a task force to represent the ruling coalition in a national dialogue on IEBC.

 

It was after this that disgruntled MPs from both sides of the political divide engaged in divisive and highly inciting debate. The NCIC and the national police acted swiftly and arrested all those who are accused of inciting Kenyans against each other. Now instead of supporting the Criminal Investigating Department do their investigations, we are seeing CORD jeopardizing the process and trying to vindicate members of their coalition either by cook or crook. CORD principals and bloggers are now questioning the police for arresting their members. When Moses Kuria  was accused of incitement, members of the opposition were the first to blame the police for not arresting him but when him and others implicated of the same crime were summoned, they are crying foul. Here is my question, what are the credentials of this coalition?

I think it is time to give us a break and allow this country to run like a state. We cannot be your psychological colonies. This issue of wanting to follow the rule when it favors you and breaking it will when it is not doesn’t urge well with common sense.