WHEN RAILA SAID "KIBAKI TOSHA IN 2002" DID HE HAVE A HIDDEN AGENDA?

From: James Karanja

DEAR KENYANS,
 I AM JUST THINKING ALOUD, AND I THINK I HAVE THE RIGHT TO THINK ALOUD OR SILENTLY AS I WILL! UNLESS YOU TELL ME OTHERWISE!
 
1. WHEN RAILA SAID KIBAKI TOSHA, WHY DID HE DO THAT WITHOUT CONSULTING OTHERS?
 
 
2. HOW ABOUT THE ACCIDENT THAT CRIPPLED KIBAKI? COULD RAILA HAVE HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT?
 
 
3. WAS RAILA TRYING TO ENDEAR HIMSELF TO GAIN THE KIKUYU VOTE WHEN THE
    TIME COMES IN LETS SAY ONE YEAR'S TIME?
 
4. DO YOU THINK RAILA WAS EXPECTING KIBAKI TO LIVE FOR A SHORTER TIME THAN HE DID? LETS SAY MAYBE LESS THAN TWO YEARS.
 
5. WAS RAILA SINCERE WHEN HE SAID KIBAKI TOSHA? REALLY? IF HE WAS DID HE NOT KNOW IT TAKES FIVE YEARS BEFORE YOU CAN CONSTITUTIONALLY ELECT ANOTHER PRESIDENT IN KENYA? WHY DID HE START OPPOSING THE SAME GOVERMENT HE WAS IN, IN THE SHORT TIME THAT HE DID? WHAT HAPPENED TO KIBAKI TOSHA AND ALL THE CHAOS WITH OPPOSITION SO SOON? IS RAILA SHORT MINDED?
 
6. DID KIBAKI LIVE LONGER THAN RAILA HAD CALCULATED? AS KENYANS CAN VERY WELL REMEMBER IT IS A MIRACLE THAT WE HAVE KIBAKI AS OUR PRESIDENT AND IT IS A MIRACLE THAT WE HAVE KENYA AND KENYANS. I VISITED KENYA IN 2001 AFTER FIVE YEARS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY AS AN IMMIGRANT. KENYANS INCLUDING MY PARENTS, BROTHERS AND SISTERS WERE SO HOPELESS! KENYA LOOKED SO RAGGED WITH A LOT OF POT HOLES ON THE ROADS. AFTER A MONTH I WENT BACK TO THE SAME FOREIGN COUNTRY. IN JUNE 2007 I VISITED KENYA WITH MY KIDS AFTER ANOTHER FIVE YEARS OUT OF KENYA AND KENYA LOOKED GREAT WHEREVER I VISITED. MY PARENTS, BROTHERS, SISTERS OTHER RELATIVES AND KENYANS IN GENERAL LOOKED SO HOPEFUL THOUGH COMODITIES WERE EXPENSIVE, ALTHOUGH IT IS EXPECTED OWING TO THE FACT THAT THE ECONOMY WAS NEGATIVE WHEN KIBAKI GOT THE REINS. I VISITED WITH MY COUSINS, A RESTAURANT OWNED BY A LUO NEAR NATION HOUSE, THE PLACE IS SIMPLY GREAT WITH EVERYBODY EATING WHAT THEY WILL FROM MBUTA, NGEGE, KAMONGO, UGALI , CHAPATI ETC. I ATE MY SHARE. THE RESTAURANT SEEMS TO BE DOING WELL. AM SURE KIBAKI DID NOT GIVE THIS LUO MAN OR WOMAN MONEY TO START OR EXPAND HIS BUSINESS, HE SIMPLY ENABLED THE RIGHT ATMOSPHERE TO ALL KENYANS REGARDLESS OF TRIBE OR RELIGION TO DO WHAT THEY WILL AND IMPROVE THEMSELVES AND THE COUNTRY IN GENERAL. SAME CASE WITH THE MINISTERS WHICH RAILA HAPPENS TO HAVE BEEN ONE.
 
6. WHY DID RAILA NOT PROVE HIMSELF TO KENYANS, WHEN HE HAD THE MINISTRY OF ROADS, HOUSING? WAS HE RUNNING IMPATIENT BECAUSE HE WAS NOT PRESIDENT BY THAT TIME?
 
7. COULD RAILA DO ANYTHING TO BECOME THE PRESIDENT OF KENYA? PROPAGADA, MAKE OTHER, KENYANS HATE KIKUYUS, SO THAT HE CAN ASCEND TO THAT BIG SEAT? EVEN USE UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAYS LIKE 1982 COUP?
 
8. I LIKE RAILA'S CHARISMA AND HIS BEING AN ORATOR BUT CAN HE BE TRUSTED WITH MILLIONS OF KENYANS? RAILA DOES NOT HAVE A PROVEN RECORD OF PERFORMANCE AS A GOVERMENT MINISTER.
 
9. I THINK RAILA IS GOOD IN OPPOSITION AND SHOULD BE LEADER OF OPPOSITION
COME JANUARY 2008. I AM JUST THINKING ALOUD! DON'T I HAVE THE RIGHT? I THINK I DO!
 
FELLOW KENYANS WITH ALL THE EUPHORIA ON THIS ELECTION YEAR, USE YOUR COMMON SENSE IF GOD GAVE YOU SOME WHETHER YOU ARE A LUO OR ANY OTHER TRIBE REMEMBER, WE ARE ALL KENYANS, LEADERS COME AND GO BUT HOW DO THEY LEAVE KENYA. BE A KENYAN FIRST BEFORE YOU ARE YOUR TRIBE. BE YOU! YOU WILL NEED YOU NOW AND IN THE FUTURE!
 
KENYAN IN DIASPORA