The mysterious abductors have, after weeks of protest and public outrage, found it appropriate to free their quarry.
Families of the youths will surely count themselves lucky because many young men and women have been killed and dumped in rivers or mortuaries in the past 10 years.
We must also congratulate rights lobby groups for their strident campaign to secure the release of the six youths kidnapped before Christmas and released after weeks of psychological and, even, physical torture.
The police have repeatedly defended themselves since last month as having no hand in the abductions.
But even children in diapers know that the state has a hand in the most revolting approach to suppressing free speech.
Criminal abductors, as a matter of course, almost always demand a ransom.
But the Kenyan variety is so benevolent that sometimes hands their victims fare home and sometimes, like in the case of former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga, provides advice as to which politicians you must not associate with.
The police, if they are innocent as they claim, must now start a serious public investigation to expose the untouchable criminals who seem beyond their reach.
HISTORICAL QUOTE
“The most worth-while thing is to try to
put happiness into the lives of others.”
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL
The British officer and founder of the modern scouting
movement died on January 8, 1941.
