George Carlin defines Euphemism as a “language invented to take life out of life”, nobody wants to call the devil by its name anymore. Perhaps this is the new skill that has been well mastered by Kenyans especially those working with the Government. You may at your own liberty ignore the essence of my preposition, but Euphemism is a strong sedative in Kenya. It numbs the people, it pulls their teeth and sends them back to work. Euphemism is currently the most effective opiate prescribed by leaders and Government officials to make people believe that somehow something is being done. Today, Kenyans are frustrated and they are looking for justification concerning the Rio saga. Four years ago, they were at the same spot asking the same questions and they received near same answers. Why? It is simply because Officials seem to have undergone an effective training in the use of coded language.
Somehow, Wario has ‘disbanded’ the NOCK and the last time I checked, the word ‘disband’ means to disperse or go separate ways. That sounds like we are sending people on maternity leave, with bags full of NIKE uniform and a couple of millions for up- keep. Doesn’t this seem like they were in a class work and suddenly the teacher disbands groups and tells everybody to get back to their chairs. To the contrary my grandmother was once suspected by the AP to be making and selling busaa. She was immediately dragged to the nearest police station and held in the cell for hours. She was then taken to court and fined kshs 1000 or serve a month of jailed term. Here we have crooks, who have embarrassed Kenyans in the Global arena repeatedly being ‘disbanded’. Why don’t they tell us they are just giving them a corruption leave, at least we can learn they still own a bit of ‘honest’?
Here is the most arrogant piece ‘we have formed a team to probe’. Why use a long statement? It is the simplest task WARIO, let the police find them and take them to the nearest police station. And like any other Kenyan, they will explain themselves to the judges. They have earned a ticket to jail and no evidence is required, the uniforms were lost and some of them are wearing them in public. Forming a team sounds like a bursary committee and the intention is to share the proceeds if not to concoct a story which will eventually send the small fish to prison. We hold a world record in Kenya on the number of pointless or rather useless inquiry teams, committees or commissions. Their duties as I have known have been to delay the process until the storm withers. The result is the same, 791 million ends in someone’s pocket while the investigating team spends more money and time (up to 15 years) to finalize their report. In the end the culprits will have become super rich to buy the courts and others will have gone to hell leaving the proceeds to their children. Forming a team is just but a language folks, taking meaning out of a serious scam and making it look like a child just dropped an egg and therefore we wait for more chicken to lay more eggs. We have the courts and we have the police: The normal protocol is that the police will chase you, hold you by the trouser and drag you the cell. You will be enjoying raw Maharagwe while waiting to be investigated and judged for a crime.
In addition, The NOCK ‘mismanaged’ the Team Kenya. I am not sure what they meant, but I assume that someone missed to manage a team. And that the Kenyan athletes who rule the Big cities certainly required a high level of management to compete in Olympics. Call the devil by its name, the NOCK exploited KENYANS and stole money and other resources from athletes and coaches. There is no secrecy in this scam and to call it mismanagement takes meaning out of a serious allegation and assumes the whole thing to have been a mere failure to read a script. They are thieves and have been doing so for years and therefore have to be in jail for embarrassing the nation. There is no difficulty in paying for team flights and acquiring facilities for them. I have been an athlete and I was under a university coach, we never missed a flight, a game or facilities yet we were over 70 athletes. A joke on you NOCK..
Kenyans, this language invented by politicians to make us believe that somehow something is about to be done is plainly baseless. It is just a language and to make it have validity, action needs to be injected into it. AK is a rock institution with politically motivated scams and corruption that have been shielded for years. Take a look at the cases already in the EACC and ask yourself whether someone has been held accountable? For the Government to pretend that this act was sudden is ridiculous, most of them have been receiving bread from kickbacks in the athletics Kenya, in fact they have been trying to further inflict more pain by taxing the Athletes who are already suffering from under the table bribes paid to the same institution. What essence does it make to disband a group having proceeds up to hundred million? They will be at liberty to bribe the courts and be left free to invest or pay their way back to the same institution.
There are only two ways the Government can convince me and you that we are all in this fight together. First, the Athletic Kenya/NOCK officials, accomplices and affiliates as it pertains to 2012/2016 Olympics be handcuffed publicly and on Camera and be placed under 24-hour surveillance at a maximum prison. They will be assumed guilty until proven innocent, only that they have to go through that which other hardworking Kenyans go through when they are found hawking in the streets. Secondly, their bank accounts, businesses and records of events and transaction be made public. They can also at their cost run their accounts on KBC TV each hour for a day. That is how I will begin to think something is going to be done….
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