Waibara's 'pants' come haunting.

Hon.Waibara has something to scratch about....

I attended my primary and secondary schools in rural central Kenya.In our days there were many people who would drop out of school mid-stream.I am refering to those who started primary or secondary school but did not wait for the end of course examination.

At the end of the primary school course,the Kenya National Examination Council administers the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education,K.C.P.E.The Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education, K.C.S.E. is administered at the secondary school level.

When the deserters,who most of the time were boys,left the cohort,they had a common saying, "githomo ti thuruari",which means that education is not as important as the pants you are sitting on!

Hon.Waibara dropped out of  school at Form 3 from Makuyu Secondary School.He went on to become a freelance photographer at Gatundu town.He did well in business and was popular with the people.


Give credit where it is due,this guy looks extraordinary in a sense. I will surely dig for more information about him.


In 2007,he was elected the MP for the lush Gatundu North constituency.

The youthful leader however did not anticipate what was to follow. A voter, Mr.Bernard Chege, went to court challenging the MP's ability to represent the people of Gatundu North in parliament owing to his inability to communicate in either English or Swahili,the national language.

The defunct Electoral Commission Of Kenya used to test all aspirants for proficiency in the two languages before issuing the candidates with the necessary nomination certificates.The court has been told that a friend of Mr.Waibara,a Mr Martin Ndungu sat for the mandatory language test on behalf of the legislator.

The MP, who is yet to make his first speech in Parliament, has admitted in court that he dropped out of school while in Form Three.There was a spectacle in court when the MP was given a copy of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education results slip by Mr Thiankolu,the petitioner's lawyer and asked to read them aloud.

Mr Waibara refused, compelling the judge to threaten jailing him for contempt of court.

“If you decline to read the results, then remember I will hold you in contempt and you know the consequences,” Mr Justice Fred Ochieng warned.

 The MP lifted the results slip and started reading with eyes squinted. In one of the subjects, the MP read out that he had scored a “D-star” instead of a “D-plus” causing laughter in court.How I wish grade "D star" meant a distinction score!

He caused further laughter when he said he had wanted to become a priest when he was at Kiserian seminary secondary school.

At the last hearing Mr Waibara was handed a copy of a text taken from a book titled The Art of Seduction by Robert Green and a copy of Taifa Leo to read aloud in court.

The move by Mr Thiankolu was again vehemently opposed by Mr Waibara’s lawyer,Mr Ondieki.

Mr Ondieki told the judge that the aim of the petitioner was to “ridicule, humiliate and embarrass the Honourable Member of Parliament”.

The MP read the two texts with difficulty, but he caused laughter when he pronounced the number 56 in English instead of saying hamsini na sita in Kiswahili.

As he read the English text with difficulty, the judge interjected: “Mr Thiankolu, do you need to have the MP read further?” The MP then stopped reading and stared at the crowd blankly.

It doesn't end there.Mr.Waibara got in to deeper trouble when he admitted to the petitioner's lawyer that he had never made the maiden speech since he was elected in 2008.

“Have you made your maiden speech since 2008?”

“No I have not,” he replied.

“Do you know what a maiden speech is?” Mr Thiankolu asked the MP.

“Yes I do,” he replied.

But the defence lawyer ,Mr Ondieki said the MP has been participating in parliamentary proceedings and “that he had produced copies of the Hansard to prove he has been contributing to Parliamentary proceedings’’.

He said the Hansard was dated November 13, 2009, which fell on a Friday, a day that Parliament does not sit.

Mr Ochieng has summoned Parliament’s Hansard Editor to appear before him on June 8, 2011 to clear the air on the authenticity of the disputed report.

It is difficult to continue writing beyond this point without acting subjudiciuosly.We have to await the judgement of the court on that electoral petition.

Mr.Waibara also faces another case for allegedly conspiring to murder a party in his election petition.He was accused of conspiring to murder Bernard Chege Mburu, who replaced the original petitioner in the case challenging his election.

Just hope the man has enough ingenuity to make a way out of the thick he is in right now.True,it is embarrasing but there must be a way out,hon.member.