Picture this: “It is Sunday afternoon and you are relaxing with a friend in your fenced compound, than you decide to visit your backyard and check on growing vegetables. The thing you expect the least is human presence but that what happens when you reach the side corner of the house towards the garden. Shocked? You have not seen it all; the man is accompanied by two other well built fellows and a couple of dogs. Not forgetting that their carrying machetes. The men instruct the dogs to attack you and your buddy. Swiftly you draw your licensed pistol and shoot the dogs and ask your assailants to surrender, none pays attention. In their attempt to flee your shoot one in the buttocks to immobilize him so that you could get enough information on the cartel that always loot your poultry. They guy you shot is bleeding profusely. You then decide to take him to hospital with your own health cover card. You also call the police to investigate and take fresh evidence on the ground. The man taken to hospital dies of a hemorrhage. What you thought was legitimate defense turns to be a murder case and you are the first suspect. The whole world comes down to your city; the entire media community has your story running as headline. You are a murderer; you have killed someone who was to kill you if given a chance and all these inside your fenced compound.”
This is what happened to one TOM CHOLMOMDELEY a descendant of Lord Delamere(one of the first British to set foot in Kenya and invest. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Cholmondeley,_3rd_Baron_Delamere ). For Tom events happened in his expensive Soysambu Ranch in presence of his friend a Kenyan rally champion Carl TUNDO.
Yesterday I had a heated debate with some of my colleagues on the issue after a daily paper published a photo showing a poacher with game meat from the ranch surrounded by Kenya Wildlife Service officers. The guy that Tom shot was first a Kenyan but also a poacher who lived his public life as stone man Robert Njoya 37. That day was the 10th May 2006 at his Soysambu Ranch.
The debate was on how the case has been handled. I’m personnaly disappointed with the way the Kenyan system is comporting itself. Worst, other poachers came even to testify in court after they asked protection. As an intellectual, Christian and also human, I ask the Kenyan government to release TOM with immediate effect. On of my buddy yesterday went ahead and said that Robert Njoya is a Kenyan and no foreigner should kill a Kenyan for whatsoever reason. I almost fainted when I heard such hypotheses.
Where are our brains? Is it a sin to be a foreigner? Is it normal for a bandit to strike and kill me in my house and not me immobilizing in my premises? What is the judicial system trying to prove to us? Is this case going beyond the events that occurred in the Delamere Ranch? I’m sure that time will tell us.
