OPEN APOLOGY TO RAILA ODINGA: FORGIVE US OUR SINS
Dear Rt. Hon. Prof. Dr. Eng. Baba Raila Odinga Chamgee Arap Mibei? Icheonade Jakom?
It is with a lot of restraint that I run my fingers on the keyboard to write this open apology letter to you, 6 years after we mercilessly sacrificed you on that evening of December 2009. This was after one of your disciples, Judas Uliam betrayed you for Ksh. 4 billions.
It is with a lot of remorse and penitence that I admit that we committed the greatest sin of all sins on 4thMarch 2013 when we at last pitilessly hanged you. We were mad at you!
I am not in any way “post-supposing†that we should have elected you as the country’s 4th president but I am simply venting out the guilt of having said and prayed the unprintable and unpalatable against you when we learnt from Judas that you were out to “finish†the Kalenjin community despite having voted to the last man and stood with you during and soon after the marred election of 2007.Â
We bought into Judas’ sophism and spoofs headlong. We were raging madly at you! Judas fudged his responsibilities as Kalenjin elder at that time on the Mau eviction exercise yet he sat in the cabinet that was convened to oversee the humane eviction and resettlement of the would-be evictees.
He failed to act decisively as an installed (Or self-installed) king of Kalenjin. All he could do was to come to the public and invoked our emotions by repeatedly lying to us that our lands (something close to every Kalenjin’s heart) were being grabbed by none other than you. We got mad at you! Moreover, he cried that you were engineering the case against him at Hague.
He even went ahead to enkindle further our fury by telling us that you were interested in taking all the Kalenjins to the last man to rot in ICC’s cells. We went wild. How could you be such ungrateful? We loudly asked!
POLITICAL OBLIVION
We vowed to avenge; to send you political oblivion and teach you a lesson. And we regretfully did that. Unknown to us, Jusdas was able to kill two birds with a single stone. He succeeded in sending you to cold like Mau evictees and successfully auctioned us. And instead of him being the Moses he had masqueraded to be, he went ahead to eat its own young ones.
Devoid of feelings for the common man, he is in record for calling against strengthening
and protection of constitution; through which a poor Arap Cheboin and the rest of my poor species would have gotten a chance to decide how to utilize their own resources. The Judas is now seriously fighting those he perceives to be having the needs of the common man at heart.
Agwambo, it is dawning on us that immediately when our Moses masquerader, got his end of the deal (the price of Kalenjins’ votes) he all of a sudden became blind to the plight of the same Mau Evictees whom he rode on to the far he has reached. In fact, he is even currently deaf ears to the cries of the kids and women who are being evicted in Narok South.
The gusto of 2009, that he had when he was fighting your decision to conserve Mau Forest Complex is no more. We are guessing that either he does not want to vex his masters or he is contented with the far he has reached
and will not need our pathetic votes again. Agwambo, we have found you a friend.Â
We thought he was better but he is in fact worse than you! And for that we are sorry. We are sorry for believing that you were the most unfeeling human being ever to live. We are sorry because we are now realizing that you are far much kinder than our own Moses.
Having conveyed my apologies, allow me not to waste much of your time since I am sure you are having a great time with your grandchildren at the comfort of your bungalow away from the cold of Mau IDP Camps. See you next year when you will be campaigning for umpteenth time for presidency. I applaud your determination!
Bye.
Yours in Remorse
Arap Cheboin
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