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Nandi Hills MP was caught on video camera accompanied by nominated URP MP Sunjeev Kaur Birdi showing them intimidating and harassing officials at the Gilgil Weigh Bridge over lorries detained for overweight. In the video, lawmakers are seen insulting and threatening the law enforcement officers. They were also demanding the officials and police officers manning the Weigh Bridge to release the trailer believed to have been without a letter of authorization from the Kenya National Highway Authority (Ke NHA). Keter was heard warning, "You know my worry is...let me tell you, we are the government. The State House Comptroller (is calling you), and no one picks. When the officials reminded him that they were just enforcing the laws, Mr. Keter warned them of unspecified action. "We will reverse the law and we have to start with you!"

He told the officers that it was the work of the legislators to make law, saying that they were free to break them. "We are the ones making laws when we want - we break them."

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The act of Alfred Keter has fully demonstrated the kind of democratic politicians they are; haughty and disdainful kind of people. In preceding their own interests, they seem not to care about anybody just because they are VIPs. Their situation has now reached an alarming rate where on several public occasions some MPs have used abusive languages with some even inciting violence among civilians. Kenyans still remember the fiery politician Ferdinand Waititu former MP for Embakasi who was arrested for alleged incitement and hate speech against the ethnic Maasai for protesting the demolition of their houses in his Constituency. More incredible, when they are accused of their evils they openly bark at the media calling it ‘fabrication of media' and insist by saying: we are indeed the reformers and not the hate mongers! This is their reality; their speeches contradict their actions and vice versa. They are all above the law. They abuse the power by all means just because they have the powers. Truly they are mega corrupt and enjoy impunity at all costs simply because they cling to the corrupt capitalist theory ‘Might is Right or the Survival of the Fittest'!

Keter's words give a true picture of the democratic political system which gives man an absolute authority of making laws. ‘Sovereignty belongs to the people' what an open Kufr! Regarding Keter's sayings, ‘we are the ones who make law and when we want we break them', Keter further did not want conceal the truth over that corrupt thought. He rather agreed openly its fallacy and weakness. And truly, manmade laws are even weaker even than the spiders' dens and Lo! The frailest of all houses is the spiders' dens if they knew. Laws which are made during dawn and broken during dusk by those who made them.

It's clear that politicians within democratic systems themselves do not believe their own idea but undeservedly encourage their mass to believe it. Their act is of an example of an Arab pagan who decided to make his own god from dates but when afflicted with hunger he turned to his god and started eating it! This is the reality of Democracy; gods made from dates only to turn into meals by those who worshipped it!! This is an evil political system that has made many people become slaves of other people other than being slaves of the Almighty Allah the Master and the Creator of Mankind.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Shabani Mwalimu
Media Representative of Hizb ut Tahrir in East Africa