Mr. Vice President,
Your comments at a press conference earlier today (7th March 2013) have made me a very angry man and I am ashamed that they are coming from you my current Vice President and also that you hope to continue to be my Vice President in the next government if, and only if, Raila Odinga wins these elections.
I am tired of your cheap attempts to show yourself as being more sinned against then sinning. Were you not the same one calling for the ODM alliance in the last elections to go to court if they were dissatisfied with the outcome of the last elections? Were you not the same one that went on a shuttle diplomacy mission to save the skins of Uhuru and Ruto now your political rivals in the Jubilee Alliance from the clutches of the ICC? Were you not the same one who vilified Raila Odinga when you were on opposite sides of the political divide only to rush under his coattails when no one else wanted you? Why the sudden about turn if you are not happy with the way the IEBC is conducting its business? Why make a public statement that is likely to stir up emotions and lead to avoidable confrontations when you could very well have gone straight to court if you felt so aggrieved?
Additionally your alliance has signed a code of conduct willingly accepting that you would respect the outcome of the election results and that the IEBC would be the one to conduct the elections and that you would not interfere. Your friend the Chief Justice of Kenya has also made it abundantly clear that his courts would be available to you or anyone else to hear election petitions when called upon to do so. Why make a mockery of that piece of paper? Or were you merely signing it to go through the motions? What else will you sign when in power and then conveniently disown it when necessary? Don’t you trust your friend the Chief Justice to deliver swift and speedy justice through the courts if you feel so aggrieved?
Why then do you want to endanger my life and that of my family and fellow Kenyans with your incendiary comments which are a thinly veiled attempt to incite the ordinary Kenya going about his business and trying as best as possible to put food on the table? When will this impunity that the political class displays with alarming alacrity end? Why do you accept to be used to issue such statements when you are a sitting Vice President and not any other jua-kali politician who boasts of many years of experience including in the highest levels of diplomatic service as Foreign Affairs Minister and therefore should know better on the ramifications of his actions?
Could it be this is just panic setting in from a group of politicians that are realizing they are losing the election when they had all along convinced themselves they would win? Whenever you go for elections, it is important to factor in the possibility that you may actually lose since that will save you a lot of anxiety and grief. It is also very likely that your presence in CORD and your recorded watermelon past could be the iceberg that sank the CORD juggernaut if indeed CORD loses and if you cannot bear to lose concede to the opposition and move on but stop this instigation that could land you in the Hague if all hell were to break lose on account of your utterances and lives were to be lost and property damaged.
I feel exposed and threatened by your very actions and at present would not care less who wins and who loses these elections since all I want is to be left in peace to carry on with my life as whoever becomes our next president will have little direct impact on my pay slip, my job evaluation and my bank balance. I will hold you personally responsible should anything happen to me, my family or my property since you cannot hide behind a cloak of collective responsibility when you were the mouthpiece for the CORD coalition.
My last piece of advice to you is lose those self-seeking election losers who do little to add to your legitimacy if your alliance forms the next government.
Yours faithfully,
An angry concerned Kenyan
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