Don Bosco has just been released from jail.
In fact, apart from the fact that he pleaded guilty to money laundering charges; there is nothing else honourable about him. Why should a community (Omogusii) be held at ransom, just because someone was released from jail?
Who is Don Bosco anyway? Isn't he just another Kenyan with bad history who just like others before him, is using jail and being imprisoned to make themselves political kingpins? One riding on the sympathy of the citizens to hoodwink us of all the shortcomings that may be of him.
Don Bosco Gichana vied and lost 'successfully. He has been in prison for an offence he accepted he committed. So should we, as the Omogusii community halt our businesses, our daily chores just to go and celebrate a released 'convict'? Oh no, not again!
The turn of events that now 'everyone else' on Kisii related social media groups is giving a helping hand to Don is just baffling.
People who have admitted turning to fraud in acquiring their wealth shouldn't be celebrated in whatever way. Leave alone, being accorded a 'huge homecoming' as is being planned.
Yes, we as a community are happy that our son has finally been released from a foreign land. But, the fact remains that he wanted to get rich through fraud.
What makes those of us planning to push him to power, think; that he can't commit a dubious deal and deprive our people services they deserve from office holders?
The fact that almost everyone else seems to be taking selfies with Don and posting on facebook, is a clear indication that we as Kenyans or rather Omogusii don't care about integrity. As long as one is willing to fill our pockets, whichever way he obtained his money doesn't matter.
So now we will go celebrate his release. Celebrate his return. Ask him to be our leader, when the next election time comes. Yet we shall cry about corruption. Shed tears about being duped. Wail over the denial and delay of basic services which we voted for in the first place.
Even so when that time comes, we will then remember it is we who put into office; a person who before a court of law, pleaded guilty to money laundering.