Kwamchetsi Makokha: Satan is truly wicked. Nowhere is the devil’s handiwork more apparent than in the series of reversed blessings Deputy President William Ruto has endured recently. Just when the small blessings in the International Criminal Court (ICC) case against Mr Ruto had been banked and he was waiting for an acquittal, the devil has made several unauthorised withdrawals. For 51 days, from September 10 to October 4, then again from October 14 to November 11, Mr Ruto will be braving the biting cold climes of The Hague when his trial begins. After callousing his knees in repeated genuflection to take away the cup of suffering from him, it has all come to naught. The initial divine gift to Mr Ruto to only attend those sessions that were convenient to him in the case at the ICC has been replaced by a mandatory continuous attendance. The devil has made the judges harden their hearts against moving the case to Nairobi or Arusha where Mr Ruto would have commuted daily in a hired chopper. Now, he can only nip back to the country in early October, and even then, will not stay to introduce his co-principal, the President, before he makes his Mashujaa Day address in the Jubilee year. It is unlikely that the Deputy President will have a proper handover meeting with President Kenyatta when the time comes for him to take over the baton of leadership temporarily.
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:31:37 +0000
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