What is the value of a Kenyan life?
Al JazeeraFor the past six years, Kenya’s self-proclaimed “moral cop”, Dr Ezekiel Mutua, has used his position as the CEO of the Kenya Film Classification Board to impose extremist restrictions on Kenya’s cultural scene. In the week after Mutua’s firing, as a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections ravaged the country, the government inexplicably loosened restrictions on public transport while urging the public to continue observing them. A few days later came a sneaky revelation from the chair of the Kenya COVID-19 Deployment and Vaccination Taskforce, Dr Willis Akhwale, that the government has “quietly” told healthcare workers to give vaccines to anyone over the age of 18 in order to avoid available doses expiring. Like Mutua’s KFCB, the Kenyan government is a product of its colonial upbringing and has difficulty imagining its people as fully functioning human beings capable of understanding or dealing with complexity in the world.
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