The battle for the most coveted judiciary seat lived to our expectation, we witnessed a horrendous panelist of lawyers tearing through the cv’s of the job seekers leaving them battled and bruised. Many of these job seekers, most of them being judges couldn’t get their names on the top notch seat because of their previous misdeed in administering justice and their controversial rulings.
All in all, the chief justice had to be appointed anyway and with no doubt one man had to trounce the others and emerge victorious. Doctor Willy Mutunga impeccable character gullibly attracted the eyes of the panelist and with that he landed a pompous job.
I am not a disputant who needlessly protract the argument, but a loyal citizen seeking to castigate the notion of having people with corrupted morals as heads of our institution.
The bone of contention though is the stud in his left eye, call me old fashioned or stereotype but I strongly condemn such eccentric behavior on a 64 old yrs man. His earring may be existing subliminally but its social norm continues to ripple our discordant society. Our culture is orchestrated by moral ethics and one can only be deemed to be morally upright if you subscribe subjectively to these virtues. Doctor Willy Mutunga maybe a well trained Jesuit lawyer but he is lacking core family values and seems to be lost in his bewilderment.
Unlike in alien culture whereby earrings are worn to betoken someone sexual orientation, Mutunga has ascertained his studs do not reflect his sexuality but rather his spirituality. He believes that through his studs, he is in touch with his ancestors who in return offer him protection. However Gay movement in Kenya have welcomed mutunga’s appointment citing it reflects changing trends and pursuit for surgical reforms in Kenyan judicial system. It leaves no doubt that the gay movement which is considered an outcast in our society feels like they have one of their own at the helm.
The alien culture has diffused in our society in massive scale, that's why we have studded men as chief justice and members of parliament. They call it culture acculturation or rather demystified tradition, but to me it means the purported chief justice could be an enslaved intellectual caught up in his spiritual quest. An odyssey of discovery, it’s like a glitch in a matrix.
Pardon me if I hardly bully, I am just a concerned citizen.
John muthoga
Freelance writer
muthogajohn@gmail.com
