This is an open letter to the Rt Hon Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga.
Sir, let me start by apologizing for addressing you through an open
and public letter. However, since you appear to have some insatiable
affinity for publicity, I thought to give you free, unsolicited
promotion by addressing you through an open letter.
Bwana Prime Minister, this week must be really a special one for you.
I have no doubt that come Thursday 7th April and Friday 8th April, your
eyes will be glued to live TV coverage of the proceedings at the
International Criminal Court at The Hague. I can imagine you will be
surrounded by a coterie of your surrogates and sycophants. I can
envision the number of Champagne bottles that will be popping on that
day, the hi-fives that will be exchanged, the hugs, the self-elation and
self congratulations. I can see you making a short speech to your
guests, thanking them, especially James Orengo, for a job well done. I
can even remotely hear you quoting the late Hon Kijana Wamalwa and
saying, “Ladies and Gentlemen, our grand march to State House is now
unstoppable”. As you sip into your finely brewed Chivas Regal, I imagine
you will be reminiscing on how far you have come, and how the
respectable doyen of opposition politics the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
must be happy from heaven, satisfied that you have fulfilled his dream
of occupying the revered House on the Hill, State House.
Son of Adonijah, allow me to take you down memory lane. In your own
approved biography, you admitted plotting to violently overthrow a
legitimate government of Kenya in 1982. As you celebrate your victory in
scheming to drag your opponents to a foreign court, you must be
counting it as yet another ‘minor’ collateral damage in your pursuit for
power. It is reported that you wrote a thesis on the art and science of
making nail bombs. This thesis must be coming in handy.
Sir, if the late Hon Kijana Wamalwa was alive today, he would be
telling the six innocent Kenyans whom you have conspired to take to The
Hague that theirs is a trodden path. In 1994, you meted untold violence
on the late Wamalwa in your quest to take over control of FORD-Kenya
after the passing away of your father.
In 1997, you abandoned Mwai Kibaki, Kijana Wamalwa, and Charity Ngilu
and joined Daniel Arap Moi after losing the election thinking that you
would be Moi’s successor automatically. When that did not happen, in
2002 you decided to shout “Kibaki Tosha” even thought you knew that
Kibaki was winning anyway. Within 24 months of that declaration, you
were already planning a coup.
Jakom, you will recall that in the run up to the 2007 General
Elections you told Kenyans that the Kibaki government was mistreating
the Kalenjin people by evicting them from Mau. Today, when it suits you,
you have no qualms throwing women and children from the forest to
create even more Internally Displaced Persons. I have no doubt in my
mind, sir, that by your actions and utterances, by your designs and by
default, the post-election violence that followed the 2007 General
Elections was executed according to your script. As the losing
Presidential candidate who refused to accept defeat or go to court, in
the eyes of rightly thinking Kenyans, you were the root cause for the
worst violence ever to befall our nation.
Today, the Kalenjin people who voted for you to the last man have
become the objects of your never-ending machinations. I recall the
camaraderie you used to have with Joshua Sang during the numerous times
he hosted you in his morning show “ LEE NE EMET” or “What the World is
saying. I am sure that to Sang there was only one World and his world
was you, Hon Raila Odinga. Today, Henry Kosgey is understandably still
receiving shock therapy, having problems coming to terms to your
betrayal of a man who served you so dedicatedly. Anyone with the surname
Arap Mibei today must be looking forward to an opportunity for
cleansing.
Sir, your actions are not consistent with the reformist tag that you
claim. Take for example the issue of nomination certificates for ODM in
the 2007 General Elections .It is common knowledge that each candidate
had to pay to get the certificate at a cost ranging between Ksh 5
Million and Kshs 50 Million. The involvement of your close allies and
family in the maize scandal just adds to erode any remaining claims to
the “Mr. Clean” mantle.
By your actions and utterances, you provide Kenyans with a sneak
preview of how things would turn out if you became President. Most have
come to realize that you have one true friend, who only resides in your
mirror. A trailer for the movie “Inside Raila’s Presidency” was shown in
New York recently when Mrs. Ida Odinga forcibly removed a Cabinet
Minister, Hon Naomi Shabaan from an official UN programme and installed
herself in her place. Even in Luo Nyanza, talk is rife about the
nepotism that continues to inform all your official appointments. This
is double tragedy coming at a time when many professionals from Luo
Nyanza are worried that you may be taking the region back to the
politics of 1966.
In conclusion, I wish your energy can be directed at constructive not
destructive activities. The problem with you sir, is that most people
perceive you as having a good brain but no soul. It is akin to having a
computer with first class hardware but no software.
Going by the long history of suffering that Kenya has suffered
courtesy of yourself, a significant number of Kenyans wonder whether you
are truly the curse of Kenya. I still believe that there is still time
to redeem yourself and debunk that notion.
- See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-67708/open-letter-pm-raila-odinga#sthash.GIe9CpIr.dpuf
This is an open letter to the Rt Hon Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga.
Sir, let me start by apologizing for addressing you through an open
and public letter. However, since you appear to have some insatiable
affinity for publicity, I thought to give you free, unsolicited
promotion by addressing you through an open letter.
Bwana Prime Minister, this week must be really a special one for you.
I have no doubt that come Thursday 7th April and Friday 8th April, your
eyes will be glued to live TV coverage of the proceedings at the
International Criminal Court at The Hague. I can imagine you will be
surrounded by a coterie of your surrogates and sycophants. I can
envision the number of Champagne bottles that will be popping on that
day, the hi-fives that will be exchanged, the hugs, the self-elation and
self congratulations. I can see you making a short speech to your
guests, thanking them, especially James Orengo, for a job well done. I
can even remotely hear you quoting the late Hon Kijana Wamalwa and
saying, “Ladies and Gentlemen, our grand march to State House is now
unstoppable”. As you sip into your finely brewed Chivas Regal, I imagine
you will be reminiscing on how far you have come, and how the
respectable doyen of opposition politics the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
must be happy from heaven, satisfied that you have fulfilled his dream
of occupying the revered House on the Hill, State House.
Son of Adonijah, allow me to take you down memory lane. In your own
approved biography, you admitted plotting to violently overthrow a
legitimate government of Kenya in 1982. As you celebrate your victory in
scheming to drag your opponents to a foreign court, you must be
counting it as yet another ‘minor’ collateral damage in your pursuit for
power. It is reported that you wrote a thesis on the art and science of
making nail bombs. This thesis must be coming in handy.
Sir, if the late Hon Kijana Wamalwa was alive today, he would be
telling the six innocent Kenyans whom you have conspired to take to The
Hague that theirs is a trodden path. In 1994, you meted untold violence
on the late Wamalwa in your quest to take over control of FORD-Kenya
after the passing away of your father.
In 1997, you abandoned Mwai Kibaki, Kijana Wamalwa, and Charity Ngilu
and joined Daniel Arap Moi after losing the election thinking that you
would be Moi’s successor automatically. When that did not happen, in
2002 you decided to shout “Kibaki Tosha” even thought you knew that
Kibaki was winning anyway. Within 24 months of that declaration, you
were already planning a coup.
Jakom, you will recall that in the run up to the 2007 General
Elections you told Kenyans that the Kibaki government was mistreating
the Kalenjin people by evicting them from Mau. Today, when it suits you,
you have no qualms throwing women and children from the forest to
create even more Internally Displaced Persons. I have no doubt in my
mind, sir, that by your actions and utterances, by your designs and by
default, the post-election violence that followed the 2007 General
Elections was executed according to your script. As the losing
Presidential candidate who refused to accept defeat or go to court, in
the eyes of rightly thinking Kenyans, you were the root cause for the
worst violence ever to befall our nation.
Today, the Kalenjin people who voted for you to the last man have
become the objects of your never-ending machinations. I recall the
camaraderie you used to have with Joshua Sang during the numerous times
he hosted you in his morning show “ LEE NE EMET” or “What the World is
saying. I am sure that to Sang there was only one World and his world
was you, Hon Raila Odinga. Today, Henry Kosgey is understandably still
receiving shock therapy, having problems coming to terms to your
betrayal of a man who served you so dedicatedly. Anyone with the surname
Arap Mibei today must be looking forward to an opportunity for
cleansing.
Sir, your actions are not consistent with the reformist tag that you
claim. Take for example the issue of nomination certificates for ODM in
the 2007 General Elections .It is common knowledge that each candidate
had to pay to get the certificate at a cost ranging between Ksh 5
Million and Kshs 50 Million. The involvement of your close allies and
family in the maize scandal just adds to erode any remaining claims to
the “Mr. Clean” mantle.
By your actions and utterances, you provide Kenyans with a sneak
preview of how things would turn out if you became President. Most have
come to realize that you have one true friend, who only resides in your
mirror. A trailer for the movie “Inside Raila’s Presidency” was shown in
New York recently when Mrs. Ida Odinga forcibly removed a Cabinet
Minister, Hon Naomi Shabaan from an official UN programme and installed
herself in her place. Even in Luo Nyanza, talk is rife about the
nepotism that continues to inform all your official appointments. This
is double tragedy coming at a time when many professionals from Luo
Nyanza are worried that you may be taking the region back to the
politics of 1966.
In conclusion, I wish your energy can be directed at constructive not
destructive activities. The problem with you sir, is that most people
perceive you as having a good brain but no soul. It is akin to having a
computer with first class hardware but no software.
Going by the long history of suffering that Kenya has suffered
courtesy of yourself, a significant number of Kenyans wonder whether you
are truly the curse of Kenya. I still believe that there is still time
to redeem yourself and debunk that notion.
- See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-67708/open-letter-pm-raila-odinga#sthash.GIe9CpIr.dpuf
