Your Excellency sir, I hope this letter
finds you in very good spirits and great health. I do not know if
this letter will reach you but am hoping the state machinery is
effective, as it should be. It will be delivered to either one of your
desks either in statehouse or harambee house. If not, the editors
will spare my worthy letter to you from the recycle bins in their
desktops. I will also lease a copy to my blog,
http://www.benard-limo.blogspot.com
I am a voter number 0093231212111234-5
In this great area code (+254), my motherland, Kenya. I must admit
that I voted for you in the March 4th elections which you
have subsequently won with a resounding clarity.
I voted for you because I knew there
was something about the two of you that I could relate to. Maybe it’s
your aural easy going nature, liveliness, or meticulous performance in
public affairs. Maybe I admire the strong back you have got, boys; coz you
seem unbreakable with the ICC tag and managing a seamless hi-tech
quest for presidency, its not an ABC game. I have seen your lows and highs, best and worst.
Either way, I may not always have believed in some things you did.
It’s human anyway, c’est la vie’!
When i woke up that morning, I was very
conscious of the environment around me. Straight from my bed, my
county, East Africa, Africa and the world. And I wanted
to vote that team with the zeal, energy, will power, enthusiasm and
a track record like yours. I voted a team I believe will make my existence in
this world more meaningful and with purpose. Then, I will stop asking
God when Africa’s turn and its daughter Kenya will come of age to
take on to the world arena and take its coveted place in the pedestal of
respected nations.
I wish for a Kenya that will be
respected for its democracy, piety, resourcefulness, peace and many good things. I wish
for a Kenya where you, Mr. President, will do away with the modus
operandi of our politics and public affairs. I want to always lift my
shoulders high, face high, whenever am with the wazunguz abroad and
telling them am a very proud African from Kenya. As I write to you,
I’ve posted in my face book account and twitter handle
@lampapalizmo that I am writing to you and that am welcoming any
messages to pass to you. I hope in a few minutes I will have passed
most of their wishes.
Sir, I do not wish to be given things
on a silver platter, but I just want an environment that will create
ambience that will appreciate and reward the efforts and struggles
that I endure myself to daily. I wish that the kids I’ll have one
day will check in into a world full of promise, harmony and
happiness. I do not wish to live in a country where rockets, missiles
and bombs are the musical menus of the day. I wish for a leadership that
will give me the peace of mind to enjoy my sweat and toil. After all,
there cannot be peace until the owner of yam is left to eat his yam
(Nigerian proverb).
Your Excellencies, UK and WSR this
great country is being held together in one piece by some 40million
Kenyans and many of them share my personal dreams and aspirations.
Young men and women like me are more energized and psyched up to play
our rightful role. Steer our mighty MV Kenya without loosing sight of
the shore. I remind fellow African youth of our legend Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi
who is remembered in our streets and monuments erected to honor him.
We have been endlessly too lazy to fight like them. We all
carry a national guilt of waiting for our leaders to offer solutions yet it all begins with us. Ideas do not need shrines and that’s the
reason why Kimathi’s name survived those of his executions. You have
a mighty responsibility before you, lets hope together we will
fulfill all our aspirations as a nation and emerge as an impeccable
people in Africa. Our forefathers and those who have honorably shed
their blood to this future, down the hallmarks of history are
indebted to you, Mr President, to realize what they had in mind of our perfect world, the perfect Kenya. Many generations to come are
more indebted to you.
Spare me the memory, your Excellency,
of a future when I will be having grey hair and am trying to explain
to my grand kids where it went wrong. I wish that what I will be doing
then, will be telling them how and when it got right. I wish that time will be
your time, good luck in that, I wish you well.
Your Excellency, promise to defend the
constitution; use it as your playbook. This life is a game and very
game has rules. You are the son of our first president, Mzee Jomo
Kenyatta. You knew your old man better than us and I know somewhere he must
have wished for the country he nurtured from the yolks of white
imperialism to be safe and prosperous. Your mother Mama Ngina, a very
proud African mother, married to a president and gave birth to a
president. She holds an enviable pride which I can only compare to
the late princess of Wales, Diana. Whatever pride she has, she
deserves it. Give a meaning to her pride your excellency.The best gift
is delivering your promises. End the inequality, tribalism,
corruption, poverty and disease.
Make friends with the nations of the
earth, let us benefit from them, and ask them how we should be to be
like them-prosperous. Follow that path, you may make mistakes as you
go, but don’t dwell on them, learn from them. But avoid mistakes
either way. We won’t be easy to forgive, ask us, we know you
watched that movie, The tyranny of numbers. I even suggest Wanjiku's
sculpture in C.J Mutunga’s office, should be duplicated to your two
offices and also other departments of government. Each time you enter
or leave that office, she should remind you that the smile on the
face that should be held at the end of each day, should radiate more
on the face of that lowest person in the society, the poor widow or
helpless orphan. It should elicit your thoughts of them into action.
Your Excellency sir, your deputy as we
know, has come from a very humble background. The synergy that oozes
from performance and the fact that you, with different opposite
backgrounds made it to the highest office in the land is an
inspiration to us, as a people that despite what barriers we may
have, within and amongst ourselves, God has the best for each of us.
Mr. President, maybe you can highlite in
your ipad’s reminder this letter to you and read it every New
Year’s Day and that final day parliament will dissolve for
elections, hopefully, sometime in 2017. I hope you will fold the
letter with a smile, knowing that wherever I will be, I will be smiling
all the way to the bank because you enabled me to succeed in my
endeavors and that I will still vote for you a million times with a
reason, of course or better still, I will be a leader too, like you,
trying to lead my march too, for a better Kenya.
Sir, i want to congratulate you finally for bringing back the Pan African agenda. it is on this realization that our people will know Africa will only move forward as one if she starts liking herself. Spread the word far and wide, kudos.
Sir, it has been a pleasure to let you
know that I had in mind. Let me log off now, my world is waiting. I’m
wishing you good health, great courage, commitment and God’s favor
as you begin this journey. I hope and wish that historians will
scramble for pens and space and words when they will marry pen to
paper with a legacy that all will be willing to emulate (here and
beyond). Pass my greetings to the deputy president Mr. Ruto of kusema
Na kutenda. I wish you guys the best. Thank you for sparing a moment,
Mr. President. See you again in another episode. Bon voyage!
Yours faithfully,
Benard Limo.
PROUDLY KENYAN
