I hope that this my letter finds you when you are okay but seeing what you are not believing in regard to the current goings on within your much revered party the Orange Democratic Party (“hiyo chungwa yenu”}.

Actually the aim of my addressing you is not to help you agonizing over the current goings on within ODM (which is and has never been my business} to knock some sense to you in regard to the article you wrote in “The Star”paper of 18th April 2012 titled ”This is our defining moment” actually I wondered whom you were referring to “our” in your article, whether luos,ODM adherents or the Wanjikus of Kenya.

To begin with my friend Dennis after reading your entire article which “began and ended with Raila”,two things caught up my eyes and that’s the reason why I am addressing u via this forum.

You are blatantly lying to make Kenyans believe that “Raila gave a voice and tried to bring democracy to KANU when all were voiceless”, I want to slightly jog your memory a little way back, didn’t Raila sold LDP to KANU and he was rewarded with the Molasses Plant?which democracy are you talking about yet Raila was given the post of KANU Secretary General after former President MOI sacrificed his the then Minister to create a post for him and his other party members?

To you by one selling a political party his members has entrusted him with for material and personal gain is what you call “fight for democracy”

I agree and concur with you fully when you say that “The truth is that leaders are the sum total of decisions they have made in the past” which has made Raila to quickly sneak to Sagana and made apolitical deal with President Mwai Kibaki without considering and consulting those who voted for him? Surely if he had won why couldn’t he maintain that he had won and nothing more and nothing less?

I know you are writing for survival but are you not aware that Raila’s brother Dr.Oburu Osdinga is an Assistant Minister in the key Finance Ministry as a result of the deal Raila hatched at Sagana?

Again how do you talk about “a likely new leader who can be manipulated and weak and co-opted into the ranks of the established elite” yet going Raila Odinga’s party nominations , its always the highest bidder and rewards is pegged on nepotism and political sycophancy.

I wonder why you opted to compare Raila with Hon.Martha Karua, these are two distinctive politicians right from their academic qualifications to there political views and what they stand for.

I would not wish to humbly request you to present me with your boss educational curriculum vitae, I will demand that as a Kenyan next time I will be addressing you, I would wish you tell me who Raila schooled with and where he schooled and who were his teachers/lecturers or tutors.

Lastly Dennis,to me Raila never “won” the last general elections if indeed he “won and robbed as he says always ” then let me ask him a layman’s question;”Bwana Odinga why are you not the President?”.

There is a gentleman presently Called Allasane Outara he is presently a President in one of Western African Francophone countries, are u aware how he became President?.

Please let us know what happened at Sagana State Lodge that day, once you will have told us your side I will truly let u know what I gathered.

Yours truly
Agwanda Saye