The squabbles between the Council of Governors and the Senate took a comical turn when, on Monday, the police were sucked into the row with a troop staking out for Governor Johnson Sakaja for hours outside City Hall.
This was intimidation dressed as law enforcement.
This was the police playing to the gallery at the beck and call of politicians.
In a country where the police take aeons to respond to a simple burglary but relish, instead, waving down bus and matatu drivers for a quick bribe, you must wonder why it took Issa Mohammed, the Nairobi regional police chief, to waste his time camping outside Sakaja’s office at night.
Mohammed told reporters his mission was to present Sakaja to the Senate even though it was way past 7 pm.
Governors, like trade unionists, resolved, unwisely, to boycott the Senate because they claim some senators bully them into paying bribes.
They will have learnt, from the Sakaja drama, that they must follow the law and not only name and shame the culprit, but take the matter further by providing evidence that should lead to the arrest and prosecution of suspects.
Governors know only too well that the EACC will be a very willing player in their efforts to rid the Senate of corruption.
Boycotting the Senate can never be a solution.
Quote of the day: “Violence has never prospered, you can’t remake the world in a day. Anyone who promises to change everything for you all at once is either a fool or a rogue!” —French novelist and critic Émile Zola was born on April 2, 1840
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