Is Morara Kebaso Kenya's version of The Samaritan?

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Photo credit/ Source: Morara Kebaso

 By Thomas Chemelil


Literary works, as has been the case world over, have had an uncanny way of reflecting our everyday realities. To put it aptly, Literature has been aptly described as the mirror with which societies look at their own selves.

The tragedy always, as my great lecturer at Maseno Adalo Moga puts it, has been  that we have always misused our mirrors as societies: every morning, we have stripped ourselves naked and placed our mirrors on our front to admire the beauty of our faces forgetting to put them at our backsides to witness the folly of our ugly hindside!

It is this ugly hind side that Lawyer Morara Kebaso is shining a bright torch on. In fact, Morara Kebaso has elevated himself to the realm of John Lara's The Samaritan. One can aptly say that Morara, like Alvita and Montano, is confronting the ghosts of corruption bedevilling country Kenya with the vicious energy it deserves.

In Lara's fictional world, two students from Segrada Secondary School, Alvita and Montano, with the help of their teacher, Nicole, come up with an ambitious app known as the Samaritan, that can be used to highlight corrupt practices at Maracas Municipality. The new app, however, gets a hostile reception from the leadership of Maracas led by Mayor Mossi, Inspector General Bembe, Judge Jaden, among other corrupt members of the Maracas leadership.

A spirited effort to stop and discredit the app ensues. It is only the resilience of the initiators of the app that sees them through as they finally triumph over evil.

It is this inspiration of Alvita and Montano fighting the rot in their Municipality that Lawyer Morara Kebaso seems to draw inspiration from. Morara has been viciously critical of the government by exposing unfulfilled promises by the government of Kenya and the sheer misuse of resources by government entities.

That he does this at the risk of reprisals from offended individuals lends credence to the pedigree of his ancestors who, in his own words, paid the ultimate prize in the past in defense of the truth.

" I am ready to sacrifice personal safety," Morara says as he hopes that Kenyans will stand with him in his hour of need.

"Do not be afraid of death," he adds with a determined face. "We are all condemned to die when we are born," he philosophically adds.

Morara Kebaso believes that Kenya's salvation lies in the hands of the youth who must rise up "to defend our nation." He believes that civic education is the only pathway to redemption as a nation.

His plea to the youth is that they should become conscious of the situation and play their roles of oversight, without regard to tribal affiliation, in pursuit of what is good for country Kenya.

Indeed, Lawyer Morara Keraro is our very version of the Samaritan app. It is our turn to help him shine a beam of light on corruption. Mulika mwizi! 



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