By Pedro Tish, PhD
The Cord fraternity is excited that Dikembe Dikembe is out after languishing
in the jails. And its official from higher up in the movement, that this
poster- child of Kenya’s Left wing stumping is now Jubilee first political
prisoner.
Last weekend was not a pleasant one, as the entire community of lovers of
freedom waited in bated breath for the release of Dikembe Disembe- the wielder
of the “chaliced pen” that poisons the hearts of Jubilee fans.
And dont be fooled, it’s not because of hate speech, its because of
inferiority complex wrought by a feeling of insufficiency and intellectual
dwarf-hood when Dikembe’s superior logical arguments are measured against the
shallow minded right wing bloggers some of them state appointees whose quotation of a book in response to
George Kegoro’s Sunday Nation article was a 1990s form 4 set book Government
Inspector, by Nikolai Gogol. That’s how far he gets.
Frustrated we must have been, distraught we must have felt, demoralized we
must have gotten, disturbed we must have felt as we watched the justice system
sink deeper into the deepest pits and most hateful forms of Jim Crow types of
expression of despair and anger towards a promising young man in his early 20s.
A reasonable and unprejudiced person would never impose a 5 million bail on an
unemployed student. Bail is supposed to be a deterrent and disincentive to skip
court dates, not a punishment. 5 million is a punishment on a person who is
presumed innocent until proven guilty.
So defeated they must feel, so ashamed they must be because in the reform
movement they just built a battle-hardened soldier, who came out of that jail
unbowed, and was quoted by The Star as having vowed to not be derailed by the
Jubilee government’s obstructionist and distractions agenda. But what they
should be warned is that “when the light of God shines upon you, nothing raised against you can prosper”. Dikembe will thrive. For God knows what the
truth is. God knows that Dikembe writes for the oppressed for whom Jesus said,
“Happy are the oppressed, for they…..”
Never before have I encountered an ideologically suave and sound man, who at
a tender age has enquired deeper into his inner conscience and consulted
scrolls of writings, and arrived at an understanding of where he wants to go,
and is also a very staunch patriot with a crystal clear conviction about where
he wants to influence his beloved nation and generation to go.
Dikembe, the youth of substance, has already carved himself a niche among
the few who have been detained and slammed with “trumped up” charges. However,
as was evident with Nelson Mandela, “what doesn’t kill you, can only make you
stronger”.
As they detained him, he trended, and his detractors took his platform
mainstream as all media houses developed an interest in this upcoming leftwing
superstar.
The stint in detention will be a hot topic of his memoir if he chooses to
reveal his mistreatments as a guest of the state at that “detention camp” at
Industrial area. Questions that only Dikembe can narrate, but might not at this
time for fear of reprisals, still linger in our minds.
Questions like, was Dikembe tortured? Was he held in solitary confinement?
Was he waterboarded? Was he frogmarched? A memoir can answer all these
questions. And nobody doubts that a memoir by this left wing media sensation
can be a best-seller.
Dikembe was targeted and his court date set just a few days before he was
scheduled to meet US President Barack Obama at Washington DC. That's sabotage.
The hate speech accusations were part of slander and sabotage by a system that
is increasingly becoming paranoid as ICC tightens it's noose on its 2 notorious
ICC inductees currently facing charges of murder, rape, deportation and
financing of a terror network that caused the death of 1300 Kenyans and massive
destruction of property.
Dikembe was recently part of an African most promising leaders’ delegation
invited to wine and dine with Obama as part of the Young African Leader’s
Initiative(YALI). Jubilee’s own spiritual ancestor Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi
was to later be enlisted to complain about the intentions of White House in
grooming this crop of young and upcoming leaders like Dikembe, who Obama
believes are the cream of their generation and are the core of his agenda in
stimulating the knowledge-based transformation of the African continent.
The idea of Dikembe meeting the leader of the free world- the paranoid
Jubilee was so scared to handle- and trumped up charges had to quickly be
instituted against him. Dikembe had for a second time in a row qualified to be
among a select few of the who’s who among the African under 29s who have made a mark in leadership.
Folks whom the White House is convinced hold the torch to Africa's future.
After looking at their profiles, President Obama believes that if he can
mentor Dikembe and his YAKO fellows, then he can’t go wrong in his dream for a
free, just and liberated Africa. Dikembe and his ilk are folks that will steer
Africa towards attaining its potential in the 21st Century.
Dikembe is also not your Jubilee type of an average blogger whose only book
quotations in response to George Kegoro was a late 90s Form 4 set book
Government Inspector. My review of Dikembe opinion pieces be they on his FB
Timeline or on this free platform where I understand he does pro Bono gives me an impression of a
man who is widely read in the real books- the classics. Kenyans retrogressive
right is and has reason to be jittery of a person whose library seem to boast
classics like Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Kant’s The Critique of
Pure Reason, Metaphysics of Morals, and of course Nichols Machiavelli’s
Discourses on Levi, The Prince and the Art of War. Dikembe’s booklist of the
Classics can go on and on to the chagrin of the Establishment.
At a tender age, Dikembe has not only earned the right to wine and dine with
Kings, but has also read it all and he had to be targeted. The bureaucrats
don’t want you to read those kind of books in Dikembe’s library! Infact these
are not books that you can buy in Harare, Beijing or Moscow. They are only a
preserve of the autocratic rulers in their countries. They put you well ahead
of your generation. No wonder Dikembe is setting the agenda for his peers.
Dikembe is surely a once in a lifetime personality. A man on a redemptive
mission. A brave man who has set himself apart. A mwanaume.
PS: Lovers of Freedom and Progress must stand with this man materially and
emotionally as he wards of fun these “trumped-up” and slanderous accusations in
this moral Law-Fare that will be fought in the courts.
Please visit
https://fundly.com/dikembe-disembe- fundraiser and contribute towards building a warchest for this Law-Fare. Your
10, 20, 30, 100 dollar contributions can make a difference. Lets join together
in warding off this wanton assault on speech freedoms that we all so cherish.
Pedro Tish, PhD is the President of Center for Political Analysis and
Research.
