Katika eulogy ya Malcolm X Osie Davis alisema.
If you don't know the man, do not mudsling the man, especially based on some few google results pointing to half baked, good for nothing, fact starved, first account lacking, worse than toilet paper printouts that cannot even be qualified as yellow journalism, for doing that would be belittling yellow journalism.
This is not the stuff of yellow journalism though. I am only reasserting what the the Law Society took umbrage for. It should not matter whether it is recorded on Google or on Jamiiforums, or Ask Jevees.
The truism could not be clearer here: if you reveled in unethical publicity, you lived in the newspapers, in evening tabloids, on the internet, then you will die in the newspapers, in the tabloids, on the internet.
If you lived a life unbecoming a respected barrister, you besmeared, you besmirched the name, character and ethics of men of letters of the Bar then that record will follow you to the grave. You are what your record is.
If you lived a tawdry-mouthed, uppity-uppity, attention grabing life on the fast lane, so base that the Tanganyika Law Society writes to publicly repudiate your behavior, telling you to stop flashing your money, then when you die people will probably, just probably, remember you for that too.
In his behavior,the late Moses Maira and his nemesis, Nimrod Mkono failed to uphold the degree of rectitude expected of highly visible, example-setting, attorneys. He affected me, I looked up to him, I'm sorry.