Its all so correct to be disgusted by the disgraceful conduct of the Nairobi Governor and Senator respectively in their shockingly violent acts against two leading (vocal) female personalities this week. But I can't help feeling we are a tad too pretentious a society in our condemnations of the acts of "violence against women". They are no doubt acts of violence, one a very physical one and the other a psychological one. But aren't they just but a tiny manifestation of our rotten Kenyan scene? Where is it in this society that we don't have as our dailyfare even worse acts of violence on not just our womenfolk, but our children, people with disabilities, the old and other infirm?

However I say pretentious knowing that we express this outrage (and mirth) only where it touches on the powerful, wealthier, better known, in a word elite and have little feeling nor regard where it happened and when it continues to happen to the lesser mortals on a larger, most violent scale. For how many women were killed, raped, widowed, tortured, robbed and displaced in the Post-Election Violence of 2007/2008 and have been abandoned since with all their physical and psychological wounds unhealed yet all we do is lionize and shield their tormentors? How many others have suffered similar fates in Tana River, Garissa, Moyale, Mandera in politically motivated or state sanctioned violence, endemic rape in Dandora and in the streets of our urban centres as they try to eke out a living in the most hostile atmosphere which this elite only laughs off?

To whom do they cry and what moral high ground can the leaders stand on to condemn this violence when they have perpetrated it themselves? Worse, who elects these "leaders"? With the foregoing can organisations like the Coalition on Violence Against Women (COVAW) now give us a rationale for calling on President Uhuru Kenyatta (ha!) to state a government position on the #ShebeshSlap?

One of the comments from the article...

Amicus populos vestibulo
• an hour ago
Im a woman and abhor any type of
violence but lets be clear..Shebesh
is no woman!! She is a motor mouth,
violent, abrasive in her approach
and a bully! I have interacted with
women leaders who command
respect when they speak. They are
civil and diplomatic unlike this so
called women's representative. Why
on earth do you lead a group of
goons to another leader's office
when you can call him up and
arrange a meeting? Discuss and
come up with solutions. Tone down
and bring decorum to women
leadership. nkt!

Guys don't know Kidero...

This is your eastlands dude that has gone corporate... there is a YT2 and a G-mna in him..

Ask MSC.. they have all been left puzzled.. you can only feel his ways, but will never put a finger on anything.

Jonny wouldn't want to get into this one. there is a persona non-grata by the matriarch.

Here is Kidero's (burukenge) Official right of reply - http://www.scribd.com/do...T-AT-CITY-HALL-YESTERDAY

Thank God i'm being proven right

I told you Kidero was an ass. Now you can see what he does.

Shebesh is no better. But if a man slaps a woman, how many women has he slapped?

Kidero is the worst choice in 2013. Afadhali the accused mass murderers.