Folks,

My 10th great grandfather Ragem, hypothetically asked Dr. Abonyo why he is now rather quiet and boy he answered. One or none of the answers below best fit what Dr Abonyo might have said. Please select the best answer or add yours.

a) My job was to oppose this constitution because it was not good enough. Why must we be contended with a ‘B+’ when you can get an ‘A-‘?So I opposed it with all my might. Heck, I even tried to stop it, but many more come out and voted for it. Ragem, go easy, we lost. Now I must shut up and wait until the right moment when things go wrong, then I will tell you, ‘I told you so’. When things go right, I will drug us back to tribal arithmetics so I get my foot on the door.

b) My friend Ragem, shilingi ya ua tena maua. Hata mtoto mchanga yule aliyezaliwa leo, anapo lia mamaeee mamaeee mama, hebu tupa shilingi pale pale atakuonyesha pengo. I was trying to get my hand on shilingi just like they all are, but they run away with it all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WOBtIkKhis

c) Yes I was against it before I was for it. There is an old saying: if you cannot beat them, join them. Now I have been busy putting my resume out there. Any moment the call may come for me to serve. Like Otieno Kajwang’ said, “It may come when I am in the bedroom!”

d) Ragem, like Sherrif Nassir said, Hii Konstitusheni sisi hatujui ni kitu gani. Sisi twajua tu Katiba! Wengine wanasema at Miti ndio inaleta Mvua. Tangulini umeona Mvua ikitoka kwenye miti? Mawingu ndiyo inaleta Mvua. Katiba kama mvua ya mawingu imetusaidiya sana wakati wa Moi. Sasa tumepata katiba kama mvua ya kutoka kwenye miti! Niseme nini tena?

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=4204382&id=366503182637&fbid=388776102637&ref=mf

Have a great Kenya Mpya.

— Joram Ragem

wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (You Are my relative, but it doesn’t matter anymore)