Waiting To Exhale

The nation is literally waiting to exhale.
For all those Kenyans who voted either way because of fear of domination by the other parties (or ethnic communities), shame on you. For all those who voted for the winners, let's hope they will be haunted by images of you on the queues, like refugees, heavy laden with your hopes and dreams wrapped in the jubilee banners, let us hope that they will not tell the difference between you and your fellow refugees-because thank God, all refugees look alike.

These 'new' leaders will be walking into offices crammed with lots of junk in the closets. There are myriads of skeletons lurking behind closed doors in those offices. Some of these skeletons were stashed away by regimes that these leaders participated in, others were thrown in before they were born Our prayer is that the government of the people will prevail and no more skeletons will be made. That these old skeletons will be pulled out and circumstances surrounding their existence addressed to finality. The landless peasants, the displaced IDPs, the impoverished masses  need a hope for tomorrow. The marginalised communities in the far-flung corners of our beautiful country still seek inclusion in all matters of nationhood. They are tired of being foreigners in their own country. For those that did not vote for you- and they are legion, we ask that you try to prove their fears ill placed. They had their own reasons for not trusting you and the onus is now upon you to prove them wrong. Corruption was given a passing mention in the campaigns, just like an afterthought, and it is our humble submission that it bears a very heavy responsibility in the situation we find ourselves in. We would like this addressed towards creating an open, clean and transparent form of government.

These new leaders all rode on the tide of the new constitution and unfortunately some seeds of doubt were scattered that some people did not have the plan to implement it. We pray that these seeds do not gain root. It is our hope that having passed this en mass, it is ours and all we ask of you is to respect and implement it. Any portions of the contract that you do not like, please ask us about any changes but do not at any moment conspire behind closed doors and boardrooms to alter it. Let no one creep into the constitutional bodies we formulated with the aim of subverting or privatising our aspirations. 

About the promises you made during the campaigns, we know you may not be able to keep all but we only ask for your indulgence to keep us informed of any failures and hardships you encounter. We are a knowledgeable masses and are quite aware that priorities are dynamic, they may change from day to day-just as we might suggest that you feed the children before giving them laptops, and of course guaranteeing security to all- parents and children!.Just remember that we hold these promises against you and we will always ask you what you are doing about them. Just as we are waiting to exhale, we are watching you. Do not let us down.