Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Bring on Mrs Darwin perhaps ... ?

Not sure how many of you have been keeping up with the world news but there's this very bizarre case that came up of a man who canoed out to sea some years ago, never to be seen again, who turned up at a police station in the UK at the end of last year - for reasons known only to himself.

This is now the story of the court case surrounding the bizarre fraud incident .....

Canoe wife 'acted out emotions'



The wife, lovely lady that she is, 'stood by her man', and when he 'returned from the dead', she was overcome with emotion!!

..... BUT .... turns out she had been standing by collecting the insurance and hanging out in Panama with him all along, and the most fantastic thing about the whole story is that she is currently in court and says she's innocent !!

Er .... Right lady, that's the way to do it !!

- You see, you don't need to be a politician to lie through your teeth. You can just be a little old housewife. But my goodness, she did it so well and for 5 years, and it was only the husband who blew the whole thing out of the water it seems.

You see, that's a serious case of a missed vocation in life - she could have been a lecturer in Politics at some top Kenyan University.

Our politicians this end need someone like that to brush up on their 'downright lying' techniques! In fact, Mrs Darwin could be extremely useful as the spokesman for our Parliament right now don't you think?

Just in the last 7 days, we've had our Finance Minister dumped in the big sticky stuff and consequently shuffling to the side, swiftly followed by the Immigration Minister who has been jolly naughty issuing work permits when he was told not to, and then today it's Uhuru Kenyatta's turn of being accused of dodgy nominations when he was briefly ensconced in the Minister for Local Government posting.

Meanwhile out of the office everyone is gearing up for the 2012 succession - and why not indeed.

We are not yet 6 months into this one and it's turning out to be a complete disaster with lots of grown men bickering and throwing mud pies at each other and absolutely nothing actually being done, and I don't suppose it'll get any better in the next 4 years so "Hell Yea", let's start campaigning for 2012 and until then, the country can all go and rot!


4 comments:

BabaMzungu said...

Why should Kenya be so different from other countries. We have a 'stable' government and we are still going to rot!

aims said...

This story just amazed me!

Why do people do this? I just don't understand it! Sure the life of riley might be fun for a while...but when you then have to pay the piper? Everyone knows eventually you will be caught. Nearly everyone is.

Sigh.....

On the other hand - wasn't it brilliant?!

Anonymous said...

great scam, I wish the husband had kept mum only to write a novel much later like 21 years later when it wouldn't be a court case.

Kenya is just in a mess, politicians are already planning on 2012 and they haven't even served 4 months in their current terms.

greedy fellows

Mzungu Chick said...

DM - Yup, you're probably right

Aims - and she's good, still at it in court.

3nspeaks - "greedy fellows" is so right