On Thursday evening, May 14, Director of Strategy and Innovation at Royal Media Services Linus Kaikai applauded a mother who denounced her son after she had been killed by a mob.
The mother, Susan Wangui, whose video has since gone viral, astonished many after she testified that her son, Derrick Ndung'u, was a criminal following his death.
At the scene where Ndung'u had been killed by a mob, Wangui explained that she had warned her son against stealing from people several times, but he had turned a deaf ear.
"There's a time I called the police on him after residents came to report that he had stolen. I called the police on him and he was arrested and taken to jail.
After the intervention of relatives, she helped secure her son's freedom with a Ksh 500,000 bond.
Despite the blood relations between Wangui and her son, Kaikai noted that the mother did not defend his misdeeds and went ahead to laud her.
"I want to applaud and salute the mother for taking a step and acting in a manner that has confounded many. When a mother takes such a clear-minded stance against her own son, a nation, especially one that is in imperfect as ours, must pay attention and learn.
"To Susan Wangui, when it comes to choosing between right and wrong, relations do not matter. Her son was wrong and she made it clear.
Further, Kaikai used Wangui's example to warn Kenyan leaders who had been caught up in corruption cases and were allegedly being covered up by their political mothers.
He argued that if Wangui was a political elite, tribe would not be a reason for the theft of billions.
He warned that wrongdoing had consequences, whether in crimes such as stealing of phones or crimes such as stealing billions.
"If Susan was the country's political elite, there would be no games about the blatant theft of millions at the National Youth Service or the loss of billions at Afya House.
"If a mother can own up about her dead son's misdeeds, then Kenyans can surely cut lose their political sons and daughters," Kaikai concluded.
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