The only thing not bound by the law can be assumed to be the law itself. By this we are all governed by the laws of Kenya as stipulated by the 2010 Constitution regardless of out race, status, age, social background, wealth or position in our society even if you are the one mandated to govern the running of the Justice system.
Even if your name is David Kenani Maraga. Every Kenyan and anyone else on Kenyan soil must follow the rules of the land. However the recent happenings that Kenyans have watched on the mainstream media on Maraga is disheartening especially coming from a man who is at the helm of the Judiciary.
Being a church elder, Chief Justice David Maraga was assumed to adhere to the appropriate ethical behaviours as stipulated by the church and the society. Being a Chief Justice it was also assumed that Maraga was to lead the Judiciary to the right direction and by that fact had been given the ‘good morals stamp’, the ‘stamp of integrity’ and the even probably the stamp of ‘moral authority’. It was an assumption that Kenya’s Judicial system was in safe hands.
Men, women and children whether young, old, middle-aged, rich poor would get the justice they deserved because yet again it was assumed that Mr. Maraga was the ‘IT’ of the Judiciary. However, little did Kenyans know of this ‘self-righteous’ Chief Justice.
As he preached water to the public, Maraga drank wine behind closed doors. He crept into the flock he was supposed to lead and nailed a ‘lost sheep being that he was unable to keep his zipper up. In the end a woman was left again lost and abandoned with a child of whom has been left to fend for to this date.
In this life, when the pressures of life mount they mount, and more so the cry of a mother who is struggling to take care of a child with a heartless father who has no atom of care about their child and not even bothered to know whether they are unwell or their general status of being. Six years down the line, Chief Justice Maraga with all his ‘titles’ has turned his back on a woman who he would have quietly taken care of without shedding a sweat and even sired two more children without breaking his back!
Mary Kwamboka cried out in pain and anguish. She was and still is distraught; and because the Justice system has failed her like many other Kenyans, she has run to the court of public opinion so that she can make her case known to the public. The public that has now seen the true character of Maraga who has even failed to honour court summons from the children’s court despite how things are taken in full confidentiality of the plaintiffs and defendants.
For Mary, all she wanted was a well taken care of child. All she wanted was justice and more so peace for herself but she had reached her break point. The cry of her child pushed her out to the public arena and now she can only hope and pray that the Chief Justice will be brought to book for his actions.