JAMILA'S MEMO: Are we being treated like kondoo again?

Because if arrests are made, resignations follow, cameras roll, statements are issued, and yet investigators still have not submitted a file to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), then what are we looking at?

The ODPP says it has not yet received the inquiry file from the DCI. So nearly three weeks later, we are still stuck at the same place: what happened, who did what, who knew what, and who is responsible? Because at the beginning, we were told swift action had been taken.

Three senior officials were arrested. Resignations followed. The message to the country was clear: accountability is here. But now, with no charges, no file, and no clear progress, suspicion is growing that perhaps the country was being shown a performance. A “hey, look, we are doing something” moment.

And this is where the old question comes back: are we being treated like kondoo again? Because many central questions remain unanswered.

The Energy CS said he was not aware. He blamed the 29-member Vessel Alignment Committee. The committee says there was a crisis after a vessel got stuck at the Strait of Hormuz. Others say they moved swiftly.

But what makes this even more troubling is that this was an importation process that appears to have been initiated through the highest offices, yet when questions are asked, nobody seems able to clearly explain how it happened.

That is what is deeply unsettling. Because fuel importation at this scale does not happen in a vacuum. It involves approvals, briefings, coordination, and decisions that ordinarily move through the highest levels of government and administration.

So how do we get to a point where the country is told this came from the top, yet when questions are asked, nobody can give a straight answer? How does something so consequential seem to have no clear ownership?

And Kenyans are left watching a maze of denials. And now, as fuel prices go up and wananchi pay higher to get fuel at the pump, we are once again being asked to remain calm.

But calm without clarity only deepens suspicion and if there was wrongdoing, let us see the charges. If there was no wrongdoing, let’s be clear about it and let the country know.

But what we cannot have is a country taken through the drama of arrests and resignations, only for the matter to disappear into silence. That is when people begin to wonder whether the wool was being pulled over our eyes all along. Another Kondoo moment

That is my memo.