Letter to the men of Kenya: Get angry and act

This is a letter to the men of Kenya. And with your permission, allow me to include Hon Martha Karua.

I will go straight to the point. Good people, you need to get angry. No. You need to explode with ‘‘holy’’ anger. Last year you wasted your anger butchering one another. And you did this for two ungrateful men. That was foolish.

This time you should get angry and do the right thing. Your duty is to God, your woman and to country. Get angry for country; get angry for your woman. Forget the cantankerous politician and tribe.

Do it for yourselves. Make it personal, passionate and plain. And what is more: do it now. Here are my reasons. Amongst you are a few good men. But these men have no passion, no oomph, no guts.

And then there are the evil men amongst you. These ones are driven and dangerously creative; cold and calculating. Like the pirates, they have hijacked the country. And the struggle is no longer between the good and the evil.

It is a fight between the bad and the bad. I will explore this thought in a bit. For now, allow me to address the woolly men in your ranks.

The good and woolly men are weak because they do not question. They celebrate ‘‘righteous cowardice’’ to escape from reality. The celebrities in this category are two: Mr Kenneth Marende and Mr Kofi Annan.

The two are your typical ‘‘political nurses’’. And you have presented your raw and oozing wounds to them. Instead of opening them and causing you temporary pain, they have freaked out.

But before running away, they covered the wounds with ‘‘historic rulings’’ and clever arguments. Now the wounds are festering underneath, rotten and ready to run! Instead of celebrating solutions of half-measures, you should be ‘‘angry’’ at their architects. Let me explain why.

The so-called ‘‘historic’’ ruling by Mr Marende was actually bogus. History gave him an opportunity to serve you, but he squandered it. And instead of ruling for country and his woman, he ruled for self.

He did not want to look like an ODM operative; he did not want to offend ODM. As a result, Mr Marende pleased Mr Marende. To celebrate him as a hero is, therefore, cheap. But I could also be wrong.

In fact if Mr Marende had not ruled the way he did, the country would have gone back to civil war. Zero! This is a lie we need to interrogate. My hypothesis is that the ‘‘war phobia’’ is a tool of oppression and political manipulation.

And this is why I must ask you the following question: How many of you sharpened their pangas to defend Mr Kalonzo Musyoka as Leader of Government Business?

And how many were fidgeting with their weapons in support of Mr Raila Odinga. Zero! The crisis Mr Marende avoided was actually imaginary. If he ruled in favour of either, nothing would have happened.

Besides, one of them is likely to become the Leader of Government Business anyway. In sum, he, like most of you, was scared of walking the right path. He chose the path of least resistance.