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Wajir residents during the commemoration of Wagalla massacre in 2011. [File, Standard]
Let me begin with a confession: I am exhausted. Exhausted by a Kenyan presidency that treats justice like a discretionary budget line. Exhausted by a state that can find billions for the victims it chooses to see, but not a single shilling for those it spent decades trying to erase. And exhausted most of all by the silence of those who should know better.
President William Ruto has allocated Sh2 billion to compensate victims of the recent protest-related violence. On its face, this is a necessary gesture. Young men and women were shot, abducted, and brutalised by security forces while exercising their constitutional right to demonstrate. Their pain is real. Their families deserve redress. I say this without qualification.
But here is the wound that festers beneath the headline, ignored by State House and the chattering class of Nairobi: The Wagalla Massacre remains unpaid for, unprosecuted, and unacknowledged as a crime against humanity.
