From: CAROLYNE RUTO
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: Politics of blackmail

Am also a Ruto..Difference is that am female….. I believe that we should do the right thing and save the MAU.

— On Tue, 7/28/09, odhiambo okecth wrote:
From: odhiambo okecth
Subject: Politics of blackmail
Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 11:53 PM

I am not surprised that a few MPs who ought to know, are the ones in the frontline championing for compensation for those who have invaded Mau Forests.

I want to agree with the Hon Prime Minister that these people must be evicted now. These are sentiments sghared as well with Hon Michuki, Hon Ole Ntimama and many progressive Kenyans who have watched with sadness as Lake Nakuru dries up. The Flamingoes are no more in Nakuru and the 2 Rutos are not bothered.

Sadly, the main achitect of Mau invasion, HE Rtd Mzee Daniel Arap Moi is very silent. He often gives us words of wisdom but when it comes to Mau, those words dissapear. He lives the work to his son and the 2 Rutos, the people who helped him destroy Kenya.

These are the times that we need leadership. And Raila Odinga has shown exactly that; that he is ready to forego his presidential bid but have Mau saved. This is very clear. A leader must be prepared to take a stance and Raila has once again stepped in the frontline with all artillery aimed at him from myopic leadership.

I was in a discussion with a group of our brothers from Kalenjin land and they are all in agreement that Mau must be saved and Raila must do that. The political blackmail that the 2 Rutos are championing is not supported by Kalenjins. They are Kenyans like all of us, and they have seen Lake Elementatita and Lake Naivasha shrink because of Mau.

They have seen the effect of Mau on the 25 rivers that originate from there. They have seen the effect of Mau at Kericho tea farms, and they know, it is just a matter of time and the tea farms will be no more, courtesy of the confused political schemes of the 2 Rutos.

As Kenyans support the Prime Minister on the issue of Mau, let our brothers and sisters from the entire Rift Valley take stock of the effect of Mau on Kenya, and then call the Ruto bluffs.

That they want to decamp and form another party? My. Kenyans must rally behind Raila at this our of need. Sondu Miriu is drying because the 2 Rutos have invaded Mau. The Mara River is drying up because the 2 Rutos have invaded Mau; and they call on their tribes people to help them kill our country!!

Kalenjins must stand up and be counted as Kenyan Patriots. And the 2 Rutos should be consigned to the next flight to Switzerland.

Odhiambo T Oketch
Komarock Nairobi.