As the two sides’ stared reality and the dare of brinkmanship to a tee, Mr. Mugo finally went last week to Collin County Court and withdrew his demand for 10,000 dollars. But the story’s climatic ending is also a beginning of another phase of counter lawsuits.
The idea of churches settling their dispute in public courts of law over donation money in itself sounds to many leaders as dumb as dumb can be. When I had a conversation with Bishop Herzog, he reiterated that he has faith that the court system will administer American justice that all parties can live with.
From Texas to Massachusetts and to the plains of Tennessee, every time Kenyan churches have any issues where thousands of dollars are involved, it has become a common occurrence to see smartly dressed Caucasian males ready to consult and give “advice”. The sad thing is that all these churches do not have a single person who is of color, but they only show up to give their expertise to stupid Africans when their bottom-line is threatened. The scene was the same when Mr. Ngobia and Trinity Rector Rev. Bill Lovell wrote a letter to anyone they could think of to resolve their conflict with Mugo the American way. The apple does not fall far away from the tree, so when Mr. Mugo felt he had issues to address; your instincts dictate that you stick with what you know. How do such learned people end up with such bad consulting advice? This kind of thinking is best explained through the story of the shepherd and the Yuppie. As the story goes, a
shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the shepherd, and tells him; "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?" The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully-grazing flock and calmly answered, "Sure." The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his IBM Think pad and connected it to a cell phone, then he surfed to a NASA page on the Internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, and then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas. He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, received a response. Finally, he prints out a 150 page report on his hi- tech, miniaturized printer then turns to the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1,586 sheep". "That is correct, take one of the sheep," said the shepherd.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car. Then the shepherd says: "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my sheep?" "OK, why not," answered the young man. "Clearly, you are a consultant" said the shepherd. "That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" "No guessing required," answers the shepherd. "You turned up here, although nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you don't know crap about my business. Now give me back my dog".
The reason why their deranged advice ends up in to the dogs is because they are advising Africans that they barely know. They do not come to our birthdays or soccer games. They do not know us. These crowns of white advisers only show up when the green Benjamin’s are stake.
I asked the same recorded question to Bishop Herzog if he has any interest or stake in the 10,000 dollars or the money in the churches’ kitty. Of course he said he has none. But as details from the public domain emerge, Herzog and his organization receive 200.00 dollars every Sunday from every church he “plants”. I am not good in math, but that sounds like 800 per month. If you “plant” twenty churches, well you get the picture of why people in funny huts only show up every time an African dispute involves real dollars.
As we wait for the counter lawsuits to take hold, let’s hope that we have learnt from this community leaders how not to settle disputes in our communities.
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