Dear President William Ruto, the NATION is hurting. The NATION is grieving. Families will bury their children who were killed yesterday for merely exercising their democratic right. Boisterous demonstration isn’t treason. Hundreds of youth are nursing bullets wounds in hospitals across the country. The Youth were only asking their MPs to #REJECTFİNANCEBILL2024 .. The MPs should have listened & saving lives & property & saving you from having to refuse to assent. Today, fix your badly written speech of last night. Mourn & grief with the Nation. Release all those arrested. Pay the funeral bills. Pay hospital bills. Reshuffle both the Cabinet & Parliamentary leadership. Remove all those that have been insensitive to our economic plight. You can’t allow people around you to flaunt opulence amidst poverty & want. Lead the Nation in Healing & Reconciliation. True leadership is Humility before God and man!
Mama I made it!
I occupied Parliament
Remember the #occupyParliament demonstrations?
But tell daddy I’m sorry
I won’t come home tonight
Not because I’m spending at a friends’. No!
Not because I’m among the injured.
No!
Nor because I was abducted as they have to most of us.
That would have been better
I’m in a cold dark place called the morgue Mama
I know daddy will be angry why I wore his shoes
I had to, I know they are bigger but I had to
Otherwise no one could have.
I know he will complain that I have read too much political novels
Please don’t let him blame Animal Farm,
Don’t let him blame Kidagaa Kimemwozea,
Don’t let him blame Tumbo Lisiloshiba,
Don’t let him blame Kifo Kisimani,
Don’t let him blame Mstahiki Meya,
Or Parliament of Owls
They can’t be blamed.
I did it for Our country.
They hailed us for being fearless Mama!
They called it an historic moment; actually unprecedented.
Did you watch the news?
All over the country thousands of us matched forward, wearing mostly black,
chanting slogans and singing revolutionary songs.
They call us GenZ Mama.
Some Mpigs say we have watched too much Netflix and we eat KFC.
Sorry for the spelling mistakes Mama,
I meant MPs.
Did you see how we sang ‘Kudade’ with Mc Gogo?
Did you see how Juliani turned up and we sang ‘Utawala’?
That song you call ‘Nikoo njaa siwezi karanga’?
Did you hear us sing ‘Tujiangalie’by Sauti Sol?
Have you seen King Kaka’s ‘ Wanataka Kutumaliza’?
Did you see how Mulamwah gave us Tea and Mandazi?
Have you seen all the comedians, Content creators and influencers?
I told you it will be Big Mama!
We matched forward Mama Slowly and peacefully Like you told me
We said we were peaceful
They rattled us with teargas and water canons Mama
We coughed, cried and chocked to the smoke but still matched on
We matched amidst the sting of that pink water they sprayed on us with those beastly vehicles
But nothing was more painful than hearing them pass that draconian punitive Bill Mama.
Remember how you used to forcefully give us porridge by locking us between your legs, pinching our noses then pouring a tone of porridge in our forcibly opened mouth?
Leaving us with two choices; swallowing or choking to death?
That’s what they did to us yesterday Mama
But unlike in the past, today’s child chose the latter; death!
We approached the parliament as promised.
We eventually occupied Parliament Mama
Albeit briefly.
The wall gave in and we entered.
I’m sorry I did not taste the rice
As some did Mama
All I tasted was the bullets Mama
They sprayed me with bullets Mama,
That’s why i won’t come home.
My battle is over Mama
But not the revolutionary war.
President Ruto seems to be grossly incompetent or lacks situational awareness.
If I were him, I’d address these.
- Call for calm and assure Kenyans and visitors that the country is stable.
- Call for dialogue with all stakeholders and immediately withdraw the process.
- Regret the loss of property and lives and with those in hospitals well.
You can’t lead people by force and intimidations. Be consultative and retreat when you make mistakes.
What’s the worst you will do to Kenyans? This might get serious!
#RejectFinanceBill2024
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