By Agwanda Jowi,

Dear Katibu,

I was really happy seeing you joining the striking Kenya Airports Authority workers and “promising” them that they will not be sacked as a result of their striking.

I am not writing to shower you with pleasantries in regard to the striking KAA workers, actually I have resorted to this open letter because I have not been able to reach you via your mobile phone and I find your press briefings so plain, repeated and boring for an adventurous journalist like me, as I have always told you before, I am a journalist by birth.

The reason behind my writing to you is to still ask you what you have always refused to answer in my many various short messages to your phone in regard to these so called “out of court settlement payment “which is so routinely with the workers saving fund National Social Security Fund(NSSF).

I have heard and seen the cases where they have paid colossal amount to either contractors or quarters purporting to being owed by NSSF, surprisingly you have opted to remain silent in regard to all these issues yet COTU sits in the board of the NSSF, surely Atwoli the way i know you, would you have been quiet if “things never worked your way?”.

I believe COTU has one of its own as a member of the NSSF board was a compromised reached or was it a case of the Animal Kingdom where all animals are equal but some are more equal than others?

As days goes by more and more Kenyan workers are loosing their trusts on you and very soon COTU will be irrelevant and young upcoming unionists like us will never forgive you down to your grave.

Lastly why are you quiet about the horrendous conditions workers are working on in one of the farms owned by former President of this country?

Why do you think Kenyans refused to heed your calls which requested them to participate in a strike during last Christmas? we as future young unionists in this country are watching you keenly and as that Chinese adage goes “one step is the genesis of a million miles journey”