It is unfortunate that Youth Affairs PS Lilian Omolo got 'sick' at Lang'ata Women's Prison where she and other female suspects of the NYS scandal were remanded awaiting June 5 ruling on their bail applications.
Quick recovery to the 'good' PS who just last week told National Assembly Public Accounts Committee that among the 45 million Kenyans, she believes that none can outweigh her in her current role.
That said, it is rather interesting to note how high profile Kenyans know how to play the sympathy card whenever they are suspected or actually caught up in the wrong.
While I am not insinuating anything in Omolo's case, the coincidence at which such incidences happen appear to many as rather calculated than random.
Here is a look at other popular Kenyans who had issues with the law, charged in court, but somehow when other forces of nature struck them, they were accused of playing the sympathy card just like Omolohas been accused.
Anne Waiguru.
She is the current Kirinyaga governor. While resigning as Devolution and Planning CS on November 2015, Waiguru cited health concerns saying that heightened pressure calling for her resignation had affected her health and family. She begged President Kenyatta to give her 'lighter duties'.
Michael Kamau.
He is the former CS for Transport and Infrastructure. On June 2015 during the burial of his mother in Nyeri, Kamau swore with his dead mother saying he was not a thief.
"I want to state here that I am not a thief and my mother who is lying here today as we give her a final send-off, did not bear a thief. And I am not saying this seeking sympathy," Kamau said.
Paul Kobia.
He is a controversial Nairobi businessman known better for his theatrics and drama than what he trades in. When he was presented before Milimani Courts on March 27, 2017, to face charges of kidnapping a Congolese businessman, he did what he is good at.
He cried loudly and demanded to be freed in order to seek medical attention in hospital.
"This court is unfair to me. Why have I been taken out of hospital bed to attend court?" he shouted.
Ann Ngirita.
She is the current talk in town. She is the Naivasha lady said to have pocketed a cool Sh60 million from NYS after 'supplying air' to the corruption-ridden government agency.
Ngirita was seen as to be playing sympathy cards when she reported to Milimani Law Courts accompanied by her two kids who are barely past 3 years perhaps to catch the magistrate's attention and show that she was a nursing mother.
Her theatrics, however, seems to have flopped as she wasn't allowed to enter the courtroom with the kids.