The sarcasm by Kenyan politicians whenever they want to seek sympathy from voters or their supporters is just interesting if not ridiculous.
So, Bomet Governor Isaac Ruto will on Tuesday be flown to South Africa to be treated for 'teargas' wounds? Really, sincerely? I don't get it!
All the way from Bomet County where Ruto has been the Chief Executive over the last four years there are no medics who could sort out his teargas problems?
And then after Nairobi treatment, it's all the way to South Africa for 'specialised treatment'? This doesn't add up. It is an abuse of the phrase 'specialised treatment'.
Whoops!
How many Kenyans just wish Ruto could know what it really means and entails for an ordinary 'mwananchi' to be flown out of the country for the so-called specialised treatment?
Endless harambees, michango, loans, sale of personal properties, land to name but a few and yet all this only raises a portion of the required amount for that ordinary Kenyan to receive the much needed treatment abroad.
Talk of worlds apart. It is something, one would not dare dream of even in extreme circumstances of ailments like kidney failure, heart failure, cancer or any other heart wrenching health condition that many of us know pretty well cannot be treated in Kenya's collapsed and corrupted health system.
But if Ruto is serious that he is indeed going for that 'specialised treatment', then he and others in the leadership of our country should be ashamed of themselves.
Yes, very ashamed of! If you think otherwise, just figure out this one, a whole governor who is entrusted with the health of millions of his subjects sitting before a South Africa doctor explaining to him why he is there. Crap!
Could it be the reason the teargas canister caught his face, as he purports, to hide the obvious shame and attract pity? No pun intended.