From: Wambua Kaloki Wakenya
Date: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:42 PM

Your Excellency the Vice President of the Republic of Kenya, I am writing to you as a fellow citizen from Eastern Kenya.

There was a time when we regarded you in high esteem. It is the time we used to say you are fit to lead Kenya. However, that was that time. As you very well know, there is a time for everything – a time to praise and a time to criticize, a time to laugh and a time to cry.

Kenya is now in a crying mood, crying because Kenya almost went to the dogs in 2008 and almost two years are passing and some senior politicians are reminding us by replaying the negative politics that almost killed the nation.

Mr. Vice President, being a learned person yourself, I know you are aware but either forgot or ignored that the politics of exclusion and playing tribal cards is what has bedeviled Kenya for many years. I mean the politics where a few tribes can gang up to exclude the rest of Kenya in governing the
nation. When you associate yourself with that kind of politics, it is time for your admirers to admire alternatives.

It also does not help that your inconsistent behavior before and after last year’s bungled elections have not been explained to your supporters.

We have not forgotten how you personalized ODM-K at the exclusion of your comrade in arms thereby undermining the reformist movement reason being that none of your comrades was ready to endorse your candidature. To add insult to injury, after the bungled elections, you promptly joint the government and occupied a frontline position in demonizing your former comrades.

Now, when you tell us to exclude other Kenyans in forming some tribal based alliance, it is time we are telling you to go and harvest honey in Mwingi. The kind of politics we are seeing from you are far from excellent, retrogressive and not acceptable in the Kenya we are dreaming of after 2012.

Truly your fellow citizen.

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