Kenyan Canada-based lawyer Miguna Miguna has shared his thoughts on the ongoing discussion on bhang legalization and snake farming.
The above mentioned are part of the plans that the Roots party presidential candidate Prof. George Wajackoya has for Kenya in case he is sworn in after the August 9 elections.
Through a series of tweets, Miguna Miguna said the agendas were silly adding they were not solutions to Kenya’s problems. He also criticized his plans to mess up the constitution.
“George Wajackoyah, the Roots party presidential candidate, is my friend. But I must remind him that elections in Kenya are held pursuant to the Constitution. Everyone elected to public office takes OATHS and COMMIT to abide by, uphold and PROTECT the Constitution. Not to SUBVERT IT,” Miguna said.
He however advised him to focus on progressive and transformative campaigns instead of the barbaric ones that are aimed at grabbing the public’s attention.
“To George Wajackoyah: The death penalty is an anachronistic and barbaric practice that is also not allowed under the Constitution of Kenya. Campaign on a progressive and transformative platform. Avoid making utterances that grab headlines because they are crazy,” Miguna said, adding that legalizing bhang will not contribute anything to the country’s economy but only cause a healthcare burden and that bhang is not a leading economic earner in countries that have legalized it.
You don’t end crime by committing crimes against alleged criminals.
You don’t fix Kenya by subverting the Constitution that the people gave themselves in 2010.
You don’t solve the criminal debt crisis by selling snake poison.
Using, reason, logic and vision
Are the solutions.— Dr. Miguna Miguna (@MigunaMiguna) June 11, 2022
“Marijuana has been legalized in many countries including Canada, some states in the US and a number of EU countries. But that has not made marijuana the leading economic earner. To suggest that legalizing marijuana will mythically solve all Kenya’s problems is to be unhinged.
“Legalizing marijuana will not solve “most” of Kenya’s problems. If that were the case, Jamaica, where nearly every household has ten stems of marijuana, would be the most developed country, with zero debt and first class social services. Jamaica remains a backwater 3rd world country,” he said in a separate tweet while responding to a netizen who said that bhang will solve most of Kenya’s problems and not all,” he noted.
Campaigning on silliness about marijuana, snake farming and other silly pursuits constitute cowardice.
Kenya’s problems do not require doing anything crazy or stupid. It only requires fearlessness, vision and transformative agenda.
Seize all the stolen land and wealth.
— Dr. Miguna Miguna (@MigunaMiguna) June 11, 2022
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