Evaluating year 2021 in history terms, I find 2000 B.C Babylonian King, Hammurabi’s rule revived. From his palace at Babylon, Hammurabi devoted the rest of his life to ruling his kingdom with remarkable vigour and justice.
He [Hammurabi], realized that good government depended upon justice which the people could understand, so he collected together the old laws and customs, improved them and added new ones of own-hear read Building Bridges Initiative [BBI], and the Political Parties [Amendment] Bill 2021. Then he ordered this Code of Laws to be engraved on a large stone and set up in the temple of Marduk, god of Babylon.
These famous laws give us a picture of life in those far-off times. Women were treated with honour and were allowed to own property, which was unusual in ancient times; what more, 2021 was a year of many firsts for women in Kenya and international arena. From the appointment of the first-ever female Chief Justice in Kenya to the swearing-in of America’s first women vice president, Kamala Harris. Now, will 2022 usher-in the first Deputy President in Kenya although tricky.
Why? the most probable ones, like Ann Waiguru failed to grab the chance when Wiper Principal Kalonzo Musyoka rushed to her after ‘SMS’. Martha Karua have to let go vengeful virtue. For she seems not forgiven President Uhuru Kenyatta after the former President Mwai Kibaki appointed him deputy prime minister that perceived to have given vantage position in Mt Kenya political supremacy. Not mention court litigations all up to East African jurisprudence against her loss to Kirinyaga governorship bid, even seeking court relief seeking to private prosecute electoral officials.
All freeborn children according to Hammurabi’s laws, where were to go to learn tablet-writing; here Raila Odinga promised affirmative action in north-frontier of lowering teacher’s college qualification during his Azimio La Umoja launch on November 30, 2021. Doctors could charge ten shekels of silver for curing the wound of a rich man, but only five shekels if the patient was poor in Hammurabi’s law. Will ‘Babacare’ achieve this from 2022 going forward?