By Agwanda Jowi,

Dear Mheshimiwa or is it Muishiwa?

It’s really long since I last you,may be its not all that long coz sometimes last month I saw you at West End hotel in Bondo, I was on my “very personal serious errands” and I never thought of exchanging pleasantries with you.

Anyway that’s not why I have opted to address you via an open letter, the reason why I have done so is because of what I am told you said yesterday during the burial of Dr.Al Gondi in Miguena within Siaya County located in Bondo district.

As a journalist I have never found anything worth writing about in regard to any gathering of you Orange Democratic Party “leaders”, for you guys always seem to appear like excited school boys on an outing heading to an adventure tour or to a girls’ secondary school for an exchange programme, you do not have what captures a journalist mind and that’s why to a point most of your news items are usually covered the way they were conveyed .

Back to why I am addressing you, if I am right , I have seen in one of the country’s leading daily publication “that you surprised” many including the Prime Minister Raila Odinga by your allegation that some quarters wanted to kill him.

I am a theatre student and to jog your memory a bit in plays, movies or dramas there are usually casts and characters that is to say those who makes the whole play come out the way the Director wanted to be for consumption.

To me whatever was scripted and you made the lead cast was the worst ever done by any worthwhile theatre director, to allege the death of the Prime Minister in a rural village funeral platform to me was the worst goof ever.

Due to the magnitude of the allegation I would have advised whoever wrote the script to have picked on someone who is not only respected countrywide but by Kenyans and for them to have picked on you to convey such a “a shocking revelation” as one journalist made it made me laugh to a point that my ribs were almost cracking with laughter.

If I were behind your said allegation I would have picked on a police officer of the rank of An Assistant Commissioner of Police to convey such but for them to you have picked on you I await what the police will say but I hope they will trash your allegations down the toilet sewer.

By the way, if anybody was to think of assassinating Raila who happens to be your cousin I wonder why they would do it now and they never did it in 2007, of what benefit would it be now? Gentleman sober up with age and be advice accordingly by your script writers I would have thought that “wine gets better with age” something which seems unlikely in your instance?

If this whole “non sense” death threat on Raila’s life was true why did Raila himself not pick up the issue and address it with the concerned?

To begin with doesn’t Raila “Supervise” the guy in charge of Security called Prof.George Saitoti?is not Investigations and Intelligence under the same docket?, surely Jakoyo someone else ought to have aired what you said and not you, I heard many smiling with sarcasm as you were parroting about the whole thing did you read the mood of the mourners? With the magnitude of the allegation why didn’t you collect the whole bunch of ODM legislatures known for the parroting of non sensical issues like Gwasi MP John Mbadi in a press conference within the capital city to officially you guys raise concern over the said?

I have heard how you have previously addressed Deputy Prime Minister Muslaia Mudavadi in regard to his declaration of Presidential nominee on ODM and you have always scored lowly within your listeners.

If you cannot grasp whatever I am telling you, in short what I am saying is that no serious Kenyan takes you with any seriousness, t o them you are just a sycophant of your cousin Raila who has nothing to tell them as a leader.

I really wonder why anybody would wish or harbor any thought of killing Raila due to the forthcoming general elections, why would anyone want to have Raila dead yet he is not a threat to the Presidency?

Are you aware that KAMTUSA, GEMA,sections of Luhyas, Coastals and the minorities in Kenya will never vote for Raila?

Then on what platform is he a threat to a point that his elimination is the only option?

I have been in politics longer than you , what I want to tell you is this;Raila will never lead this country and when his politics is extinguished you will be in political oblivion, if I were you I would start chatting for my own political destination.

Lastly, why bellow about Bondo DC and OCPD summoning you to corroborate? Why wail louder than the bereaved? How about telling Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere and CID boss Ndgewa Muhoro to summon you about your allegations?

During my college days I was a political activist, I can recall one time in Ugenya during the burial of the late Wiliam Omoga , we accompanied the current Lands Minister James Orengo who told Raila straight in his that he will never lead this country and that Raila’s father Jaramogi Odinga was given an opportunity and he screwed himself with it, did I hear that Orengo also spoke on the “serious issue” you raised?

Nobody can think of harming Raila as he is not a threat to any politician presently but perhaps he might be a threat to your ilk who sees no life after his exist from politics