BY SARAH WAMBUI

I am sick and tired to my stomach of hearing our political elite run and hide behind the sorry excuse ‘wanataka kunimaliza’ every time they are implicated in corruption.

Such lame excuses crack me up and disgust me with equal measure.

The ‘it is the work of my political enemies’ line has become too old and tasteless for my taste buds. It is an insult to my thinking capacity and any politician who subjects me to such highly disturbing lines should be taken to a funny farm.

They make me feel so puny upstairs.

For how long will these louts expect us to turn the other cheek and allow them to slap us again and again with another corruption ignominy barely days after the last scandal? It has become evident that these clowns get a kick out of degrading our intellects.

And it doesn’t matter how much I beat my brains out trying to figure out why a politician caught with sugar in his/her fingers and on the lips would still deny stealing it; proceed to giving me the lamest excuse ever and then expect me to buy into such nonsense.

Time has come for them to start using other lines.  For example; ‘I know I am not guilty but I will step down and pave way for investigations’ or better yet ‘I Mheshimwa Bure Kabisa wish to tender my resignation letter for stealing Shiko’s, Nyangi’s and Junior’s school fees’.

It is time to stop being chicken. You had the temerity to shamelessly steal billions of shillings meant to feed the hungry, educate the poor, and buy a decent piece of land on which Nairobi residents can bury their dead. So in that same spirit, face the public from whom you stole and step aside to give some room for the anti corruption fellows to do their job.

It will increase the public’s confidence in your work. And not to worry, you will be back at your office in no time; A couple of Cabinet Ministers perceived to have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar can attest to this.

It is not rocket science; just common sense. When you make such expensive blunders you must face the consequences. The piper has come for his dues and you must pay him.

Politicians should be heavily fined for hiding behind the façade of their political opponents every time their corrupt-dealings-made-public start haunting them because as the government takes its sweet time bringing these four/six culprits to book, poor Kenyans continue to suffer.

Meanwhile their kids continue with their education at some British-system high cost school.

Our two head honchos should stop dragging their feet in dealing with such dishonest persons because I really don’t care whether it’s a political game between the two main political parties or not. Someone has to be held to account for the incessant frauds. 

But in the same breath, these fights between ODM and PNU camps are most welcome because while their respective members continue trying to outdo each other in disclosing each other’s corrupt acts, the public gets to know which jokers will not see the 11th Parliament.

I sure love these scandals…I should perhaps even get some popcorn. But that’s a story for another day.

I’ve got my eyes on all such clowns and come 2012, tutaonana. You should do the same.

This impunity has gone on for so long and it has definitely made me antsy. Time to start paying has come.

(Sarah Wambui is a reporter with Captial FM)