Humanist

Among the hardest decisions I have ever had to make is to withdraw my savings, my money, my rainy day funds, my retirement funds, prior saved via the National Social Security Fund, millions of shillings, and re-direct them towards mounting on-going protracted legal battles. Yes, fighting back the legal and ethical way.

An eyebrow raising move in these our parts of the world, that took by surprise some who thought they knew my character well, but yet did not. If they did, they would not have underestimated my resolve to ethically fight back against criminality, as a whole; and particularly that which is directed towards me.

One of my she-tormentors, she who had hoodwinked me into believing her more than a half sister and a friend, a confidant to a degree, in a panic, attempted to mask her fear of my resolve to take them on, the criminals. She put on a charade she was gleeful in celebrating my decision to “waste my money.”

The she-criminal’s reasoning fitting well within injustice normalized. Cajoling victims of gender-based violence, with the toxic advice commonly given to us to the tune of just accept it and let the criminal get away with it.

Prioritize your peace of mind and mental health, the flawed advice goes. Just let it go, Machiavellian criminals, abusers, invoke the normalized toxic norm. Factoids, falsehoods, that serve the criminal and do nothing for the victim’s peace of mind and mental health.

Absolute warped logic!

Peddling false narratives that the best the victim can do is to simply walk away and allow the criminal to steal one’s joy, peace of mind and, in my case, significant property, that which is mine, and for the criminal to normalize it as theirs.

Well, as for me, I saw through the criminals’ charade. It did not sway me one bit, for without fighting back, I would never have attained my peace of mind now enjoyed. My mental health would have suffered irreparable damage, I know for sure. And so, I refused to take it laying down.

I am legally and ethically fighting back with all I got!

And through the ethical and legal fight I am healing. And I am keeping hope alive that legal justice too will ultimately prevail in my favor.