Certianly I do aggree with Odhiambo Oketch’s sentiments….But Why????

Politicians may make others wordless. Not because of their might and focus, but because you feel for them and pity them for what Prof. Makau Mutua calls mens rea (a guilty mind) and their actus reus (guilty acts).

Their current malice aforethought is to destabilize the party that put them in office and try to shake the party’s leadership to disintegration. On Saturday (15) night, I woke up at 3.00a.m; Kenyan time, only to be awoken by true realities of humanity in a CNN feature, “In the mind of a terrorist.” So captivating were the images and citations from terrorists who were later sentenced to death and buried in a local village cemetery.

Their testimonies brought out ‘perceived’ anger, pain, humiliation, frustration, oppression by the West due to their faith ‘Islam’. To the ‘followers’ and extremists it sounded right for the ‘Muslim terrorists’ to kill the West (USA, Britain, Australia, etc) to get ‘perceived’ solace and dominance.

It now seems that Rift Valley politicians are giving ethnic based injunctions against national realities to protect their political careers. This dramatic victim – persecutor – rescue ethnic triangle only proves how Rift Valley is isolating itself from the rest of Kenyans. Issues such as the Mau eviction need a national outlook and not a regional one. In fact, settlers of May forest were given genuine title deeds illegally through Moi’s machination. Kibaki only propagated the same under the seemingly similar political environment.

Thus, ODM’s leader Raila Odinga should leave the Rift Valley bulls and cocks to fight it out by their own selves and release their post-election guilt and frustrations. Raila should not engage himself, as a leader, with the Rift Valley ethnic contamination. His concentration with national duty ought to be his key payoff of this dirty game of the Rift’. ‘This political game is not so much at destroying ODM or hurting Raila Odinga but at keeping him and those close to him from getting too close to State House come 2012.

Kenyans should identify real leaders and leave those who want to stack the deck against themselves be the jokers in their new game. For they only want to be free from all restraints including the law, constitution, human justice and individual rights.

For William Ruto, he is loosing his national grip as he smashes his political career against the floor of Rift Valley, squishing his hopes of national leadership and future coalitions into slivers of ethnic bigotry.

Self repression is tied not only in one’s political character alone but also in the very ethnic muscular knots that one uses against the majority. Ruto’s current political focus may also backfire to be a locus for repressing Rift Valley and its residents through self-inflicting political isolation. I call this instrumental political arousal due to innate guilt.

Rift Valley is free to leave ODM for KANU or UDM. Kenyans want national cohesion and peace.

Mundia Mundia Jnr.

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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:38:41 -0800 [09:38:41 AM CST]
From: mundia mundia
Subject: THE ‘INNOCENT VICTIM’ THAT IS RIFT VALLEY…