Sawa, lakini mwizi ni mwizi regardless. Well known Kenyan chief thief!!!

And what ain't illegal is not necessarily ethical

Most of the public resources were looted legally. It was legal for PORK to allocate you karura forest or Nyayo stadium for example.
Bad laws are worse than no law. Our customs were not written and they governed societies quite well. Remember the animal farm anology where laws were changed to suit the oppressors.

by the way... who is to judge that

really? why do you say that? what did our societies do that was remarkable other than stay alive like any other society?

The fact of the matter is that when Jomo Kenyatta and others were at University in London and Uganda in the 1930's most wazuans grandfathers were illiterate hunters and gatherers walking naked chasing after antelopes and wild rats and eating figs with no foresight of what the future would be.By 1930, guys like old Jomo were already conversant with ideas of land and labour as factors of production. In these early days, the so called thieves had already grasped the concept of wealth in the context of the 19th century world while their peers in Kenyan hinterland still believed that wealth was all about how many wives one had etc.

I can wager 100% that if my grandfather was an educated man in the 1930's then, today i(his descendant) would be a member of Kenya's aristocrat class of akina Odinga, Kenyatta, Moi and others. Furthermore, i can wager that jealous wazuans would be calling my grandfather a thief for being in the right place(educated) at the right time(when resources were abundant and people were ignorant and only focused on witchcraft and other retrogressive activities)...Seeing that CK is 80 years old, i would imagine by 1963 he was already a man with his senses and ambition.One hundred bob invested in 1963 compounded at a modest 5% per annum would make him a millionaire today.