04-11-2008, 07:50 AM
i do not ordinarily take an interest in matters legal, but we, i think, have come a long way in the short time span that kenya has been independent.
To think that our norm system was uprooted and one wholly alien supplanted, and yet we have, to some extent, been able to function has been , well, worth commend.
Take Rwanda for example. If you have watched that Gacheche Courts' episode on National Geographic, you might agree with me that it is not justice that is served up there- but revenge. the Hutus had their genocide, now the tutsis are having their gacheche.
Kind of like the courts of Oyer and Terminer in the Salem Witch Hunts. Kenya, I say is not badly off sice, as the good book says, if you have broken one commandment, you have broken them all, and thief big or small deserves no mercy.
(your thief was lucky anyway, had mob justice caught up with him he'd have died a painful death)
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