By Ahmedi Kazungu
1. We have waited 50 years for a “good” president to develop us. We are tired of waiting. We couldn’t have a better opinion
of you than we had of jomo, moi and kibaki when they became president. We loved them dearly as well, yet we are still a third world country. We are just tired of waiting for a “good” president. We’ve been there done that. Goodness now we leave to small children, and let’s divide
what we all have by law. So that we all go home with something. That’s why we voted for a new constitution.
2. Mr President, you will never be “efficient” enough, “development conscious” enough, or sensitive enough about all of us to develop us all and deal with all our problems at the same time. It is a big country. I noticed you have been running around trying to launch something everywhere. You couldn’t launch all our cattle dips, school desks, hospital beds, estate lights etc at the same time. It’s simply impossible. You are just one man. No matter what your presidential press service, nation, standard, citizen, Ktn, K24 would like you and us to believe. You are just human. Please just give our governor the money to launch all these things at home. Otherwise we fear we may have to wait another 50years for our cattle dip.
3. We all love land, we are Kenyans and we were all dispossessed of land. It is our heritage, we want to own some of it, that
we may leave our children with something when we finally bow out of misery. We all believe that there’s enough land for all our needs but not for everyone’s greed. Unfortunately Mr president, amongst us, there are some with too much of it. They have too much of it and want more of it.
We need an independent arbiter to decide who gets what amongst us. I understand you are afraid we want your vast ownership, but we don’t want thousands and thousands of acres, we just want one or two. Don’t be terrified of us. You and others have enough of it for all us. We don’t even care how you got it, we just want some of it for our children. That’s why we voted for a new constitution. Please let our resolutions be
implemented. Please respect our wishes surrounding land management mr president, let swazuri do his thing, we don’t trust your lands minister, she has been caught with her hand in the jar too many times. Find a way to redistribute these holdings. Give the rest of us our dignity.
4. We are BORN with the right to development. Every single one of us has a right to this. Our behavior is not the meter for whether we get development or not. We deserve development by birth not by behavior. Just like you feel you deserve somethings, we do as well. Stop asking us
to change our behavior or to love you that we may get development. We have loved many for 50 years and we are still poor. Please give us what’s rightfully ours, stop requiring us to love you to deserve development.
5. Mr president, we love politics and elections in Kenya, every one of us finds it exciting. However it’s not a reasonable expectation for the rest of us to believe our kids can one day be president. We all saw the statistics of 2009 census. We know no single community here has more than 20% of the population by government’s own figures. We also know that no two alliances of communities can produce a president by exclusion of the
rest of us. It’s simply mathematically unfeasible. We also know that no amount of focused registration and turnout can lead to a single community producing successive presidents. That is mathematically impossible no matter how much we may want to believe it. However we need you to understand that a fairer transparent process protects you and all communities as well, no one has to suffer the repercussions of revenge exclusion in the future. It is actually possible for someone from a different community to represent your interests. Virtually all the rest of our communities have placed their interests in someone else’s hands at one point. It is not an unreasonable thing, we are all still here, we din’t die. You should try it sometime. We also understand the politics surrounding the tyranny of numbers, we know why your people had to create that impression. However the rest of us have come to resent that concept. Please stop insisting on it. It’s a mathematical and psychological creating. We feel our mothers bore children capable of being president as well. Look into that. Make the changes in law that will protect your people as well in the future. Open up to a free and more transparent process, don’t worry you will live
1. We have waited 50 years for a “good” president to develop us. We are tired of waiting. We couldn’t have a better opinion
of you than we had of jomo, moi and kibaki when they became president. We loved them dearly as well, yet we are still a third world country. We are just tired of waiting for a “good” president. We’ve been there done that. Goodness now we leave to small children, and let’s divide
what we all have by law. So that we all go home with something. That’s why we voted for a new constitution.
2. Mr President, you will never be “efficient” enough, “development conscious” enough, or sensitive enough about all of us to develop us all and deal with all our problems at the same time. It is a big country. I noticed you have been running around trying to launch something everywhere. You couldn’t launch all our cattle dips, school desks, hospital beds, estate lights etc at the same time. It’s simply impossible. You are just one man. No matter what your presidential press service, nation, standard, citizen, Ktn, K24 would like you and us to believe. You are just human. Please just give our governor the money to launch all these things at home. Otherwise we fear we may have to wait another 50years for our cattle dip.
3. We all love land, we are Kenyans and we were all dispossessed of land. It is our heritage, we want to own some of it, that
we may leave our children with something when we finally bow out of misery. We all believe that there’s enough land for all our needs but not for everyone’s greed. Unfortunately Mr president, amongst us, there are some with too much of it. They have too much of it and want more of it.
We need an independent arbiter to decide who gets what amongst us. I understand you are afraid we want your vast ownership, but we don’t want thousands and thousands of acres, we just want one or two. Don’t be terrified of us. You and others have enough of it for all us. We don’t even care how you got it, we just want some of it for our children. That’s why we voted for a new constitution. Please let our resolutions be
implemented. Please respect our wishes surrounding land management mr president, let swazuri do his thing, we don’t trust your lands minister, she has been caught with her hand in the jar too many times. Find a way to redistribute these holdings. Give the rest of us our dignity.
4. We are BORN with the right to development. Every single one of us has a right to this. Our behavior is not the meter for whether we get development or not. We deserve development by birth not by behavior. Just like you feel you deserve somethings, we do as well. Stop asking us
to change our behavior or to love you that we may get development. We have loved many for 50 years and we are still poor. Please give us what’s rightfully ours, stop requiring us to love you to deserve development.
5. Mr president, we love politics and elections in Kenya, every one of us finds it exciting. However it’s not a reasonable expectation for the rest of us to believe our kids can one day be president. We all saw the statistics of 2009 census. We know no single community here has more than 20% of the population by government’s own figures. We also know that no two alliances of communities can produce a president by exclusion of the
rest of us. It’s simply mathematically unfeasible. We also know that no amount of focused registration and turnout can lead to a single community producing successive presidents. That is mathematically impossible no matter how much we may want to believe it. However we need you to understand that a fairer transparent process protects you and all communities as well, no one has to suffer the repercussions of revenge exclusion in the future. It is actually possible for someone from a different community to represent your interests. Virtually all the rest of our communities have placed their interests in someone else’s hands at one point. It is not an unreasonable thing, we are all still here, we din’t die. You should try it sometime. We also understand the politics surrounding the tyranny of numbers, we know why your people had to create that impression. However the rest of us have come to resent that concept. Please stop insisting on it. It’s a mathematical and psychological creating. We feel our mothers bore children capable of being president as well. Look into that. Make the changes in law that will protect your people as well in the future. Open up to a free and more transparent process, don’t worry you will live
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